Funny money?

[empirestate]

Ford actually was among the most athletic presidents, having played and coached football at what today is the Division I level and served in the Navy, where he not only saw actual combat but also played and coached multiple sports in the service leagues.  He was only 60 when he became president.   

The story is that the guy, contrasted to easily lampoonable predecessors was so dull and ordinary that the chattering class could not find something to wag its collective tounge about.  Then he tripped a few times and shanked a couple of tee shots and they tagged him with the "clumsy" theme.  Actually he had less such incendents than other political figures.

Yeah, but I couldn't come up with a joke that played this angle.

In the literal spirit of the thread topic, can we come up with other jokes in a similar format for the other Presidential dollars (or any other coin)? (Hopefully the fact that living politicians don't appear on currency will keep us from running afoul of the no-politics rule.)

For example: I got a William Henry Harrison dollar last month, but now it's gone.

[hotdogPi]

I just saw someone accept $80 for a purchase of about $140. The customer gave four $20 bills, one of which was uncolored, and both the customer and the worker thought the uncolored bill was a $100 bill until it was too late.

[bandit957]

Someone made a dollar bill and put Boss Hogg's face on it and people laughed so it was funny money in the literal sense.

[bugo]

I found the following story on $1 coins, it sounds like it should be true.

As we know, US coins used to be really made of silver, and were proportional to one another in size.  The Mint stopped making silver dollars in the 30s, not for any political or economic reasons, but simply because there were enough in circulation to cover the demand, since it was a large coin of (then) high value. 

Eventually, many of these ended up in Nevada.  In casinos, where they were recycled over and over in the slot machines as a coin on table games.  Then, when the price of silver rose above the face value of the coins, the US started issuing the "Johnson sandwich" coins we see today.  Casinos quicky made a tidy profit by removing the silver dollar coins, but had a problem because they had all of these slot machines that needed $1 coins.  So they made their own slugs.  Which entered general circulation in Nevada.

The Mint objected and decided that it had to issue a dollar coin to prevent this.  So the Ike was chosen.  Ike was among the most popular recent presidents, Nixon (by then president) was Ike's VP, and it evened up the ratio of political parties on coins.    The coins did fairly well, serving the casino industry and other such applications.  Until the failed SBA coin, the "Carter Quarter" came out.  Today, slot machines mostly operate with bill readers and pay off in tickets, rather than a coin drop, and casinos have issued $1 chips for the tables.  You still see some table games, Pai Gow for example, where the win pay is $4.25 on a $5 bet, that use quarters and 50 cent pieces in the chip tray.

There are other reasons that were more compelling that led the casino industry to the changes it underwent. Slot machines no longer use coins because it is not economical to maintain coin-in/coin-out machines. Coin jams are a pain in the ass to clear, and require allowing access to the coin hopper by any random technician that might be tasked with doing so. With a bill acceptor, you can keep the accepted bills locked up (bill jams, when they do occur, will happen in the removable acceptor unit, not the drop box) and only have to worry about tickets going out, which are just worthless blank paper before they are printed. You also do not have to worry about the logistics of keeping jars of spare coins around when hoppers run empty–a 400-count ticket bundle is small enough you can leave it sitting inside the machine, or have your attendants carry one in their pocket. 

Pockets in a casino?