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legally exporting pennies

Postby knibloe » Wed Jan 28, 2015 7:42 am

The rule governing pennies has a clause in it as follows:

"The Cash Product Office of the Federal Reserve advised that some depository institutions export 5-cent and one-cent coins, as well as other U.S. circulating coins, to foreign countries that have so-called “dollarized” monetary systems. Central banks in these countries purchase U.S. circulating coinage from domestic depository institutions for use as circulating money in their own countries. To accommodate this legitimate requirement to permit the exportation of 5-cent and one-cent coins, we have added an additional exception to the final regulation"

A google search comes up with the following:

Countries using the US dollar exclusively[edit]

•British Virgin Islands.
•Caribbean Netherlands (from 1 January 2011)
•East Timor (uses its own coins)
•Ecuador (uses its own coins in addition to U.S. coins; Ecuador adopted the US dollar as its legal tender in 2000.)
•El Salvador.
•Marshall Islands.

In theory someone could order a lot of pennies in one of these countries and have them shipped by the fed. Next would be to see what regulations these countries have. Coincidentally my step mom lives in the Marshall Islands. One of should have set up a sorting business in the Caribbean 8-)
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Re: legally exporting pennies

Postby johnbrickner » Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:17 am

If you include Ecuador you have to include Panama, dollarized in 1904. They also have the Balboa but it fully exchanges at 1:1.
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Re: legally exporting pennies

Postby hobo finds » Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:59 am

The United States Dollar is the currency in American Samoa (AS, ASM), British Virgin Islands (VG, VGB, BVI), El Salvador (SV, SLV), Guam (GU, GUM), Marshall Islands (MH, MHL), Micronesia (Federated States of Micronesia, FM, FSM), Northern Mariana Islands (MP, MNP), Palau (PW, PLW), Puerto Rico (PR, PRI), United States (United States of America, US, USA), Turks and Caicos Islands (TC, TCA), Virgin Islands (VI, VIR), Timor-Leste, Ecuador (EC, ECU), Johnston Island, Midway Islands, and Wake Island.
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Re: legally exporting pennies

Postby AdamsSamoa » Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:52 pm

The United States Dollar is the currency in American Samoa (AS, ASM), British Virgin Islands (VG, VGB, BVI), El Salvador (SV, SLV), Guam (GU, GUM), Marshall Islands (MH, MHL), Micronesia (Federated States of Micronesia, FM, FSM), Northern Mariana Islands (MP, MNP), Palau (PW, PLW), Puerto Rico (PR, PRI), United States (United States of America, US, USA), Turks and Caicos Islands (TC, TCA), Virgin Islands (VI, VIR), Timor-Leste, Ecuador (EC, ECU), Johnston Island, Midway Islands, and Wake Island.

Most of these are part of the good OL USA.
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Re: legally exporting pennies

Postby baggerman » Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:58 pm

What about Belize?
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Re: legally exporting pennies

Postby fansubs_ca » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:24 am

baggerman wrote:What about Belize?


Has it's own currency pegged to the U.S.$, I believe it's a 2 to 1 rate. They have
their own coinage.
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