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I don’t know about other jurisdictions, but in Canada there is actually a law in place that allows the receiver of a payment to refuse more than a certain amount of the payment in coins.

A quick googling turns up this Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender

The net-net is that an armoured truck full of coins is not necessarily “legal tender” in every country.



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