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What happened to the $10 bill???

AA_Train

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For the past 6 months or so, whenever I get change, I almost never get $10 bills any more. It's always 5s or change. At first I thought it was just me but I talked to others and they noticed the same thing, too. Has there been a rash of counterfeiting or are they discontinuing the old ones in favour of the new polymer bills?

Seems awfully peculiar to me.
 
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Ditto. In fact, I noticed the shortage of 10s over the past year.

With the new 100s in circulation, the polymer 50s will be out before April 2012.
The new 20s by the end of 2012 followed by the new 10s and 5s by the end of 2013.
 

AA_Train

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Well wouldn't ya know that the day after I posted this thread I have received three 10th dollar bills when it was appropriate to do so. I guess I just had to birch at the universe a little.
 

WalterMitty

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10 dollar bills have always been somewhat rare, relatively speaking. The mint does not produce an equal number different bill denominations. They have always produced fewer 10s than 5s and 20s.

Walter
 

blazejowski

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When I worked in the service industry - for many years - I handled a TON of cash per day, and can tell you 5's usually outnumber your 10's by factor of around 4 to 1...
 

Dgodus

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When I worked in the service industry - for many years - I handled a TON of cash per day, and can tell you 5's usually outnumber your 10's by factor of around 4 to 1...
Same in retail (not sure what you call a video store other than long gone). In the till would be a Stack of 20's, stack of 5's, and maybe 5 or 6 10's, but never more than a hundred dollars worth. Seeing as the store did about 800-1000 per shift I'd say the ratio is probably lower than 4 - 1. Really the 10 is probably something they could just do away with, I'd say it's convinience factor is relatively insignificant.
 

storm rider

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I agree that there is a shortage of $10's in circulation.......and I am at the same time wondering why the Canadian Mint still makes pennies when there are millions of them in circulation.

SR
 

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vancity_cowboy

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I agree that there is a shortage of $10's in circulation.......and I am at the same time wondering why the Canadian Mint still makes pennies when there are millions of them in circulation.

SR
as long as we've still got hst/gst we'll have pennies. if it wasn't for taxes, merchants would damn soon price their stuff so absolutely no pennies, nickles or dimes would be necessary. the smallest coin would be a quarter. but these odd numbers, like 12% in bc, make it necessary to stock the smaller coins

dang guvmint... :frusty:
 

storm rider

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as long as we've still got hst/gst we'll have pennies. if it wasn't for taxes, merchants would damn soon price their stuff so absolutely no pennies, nickles or dimes would be necessary. the smallest coin would be a quarter. but these odd numbers, like 12% in bc, make it necessary to stock the smaller coins

dang guvmint... :frusty:
Oh thats right...you live in BC (Bring Cash) where the Provincial Government rapes you with a sales tax.....and also the HST for a limited time......I am so glad I dont lose 7% of every $ I earn to a Provincial sales tax.

SR
 
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