Can you get away with paying using Canadian coins in the U.S.?
Some of the Canadian coins look like American pieces. If I gave these to a cashier would they accept them as U.S. coins?
I mean, will they just take them and think that they are U.S. coins?
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Maybe you can slip a single coin in a handful of change, but if you have more than one foreign coin, most cashiers who are any good will hand you the Canadian (or other) coin right back. The exchange rate is not 1:1, and the cashier is not supposed to accept foreign currency.
No. Canadian coins belong in Canada. US coins belong in the US. They are not the same.
I was a cashier and a teller and yes a lot of time I would get a canadian coin, specially in a roll of pennies. Not big deal since it was only a few coins but it trows our cash drawers off.