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thanks for the link. in the US page, there's actually a section titled "Payment Made in Small Change or Pennies". all the examples involve debts to the governme

thanks for the link. in the US page, there's actually a section titled "Payment Made in Small Change or Pennies". all the examples involve debts to the government, but it looks like, while the restaurant wouldn't be able to refuse the payment altogether, it might have a legal basis to charge a handling fee for extremely inconvenient denominations. not exactly conclusive, but enough to satisfy my curiosity.

goodcanadian 6y ago
Indeed. It comes up on HN often that the law is not code and is subject to interpretation by judges who are human. If you are being unreasonable for the sake of being unreasonable, it won't matter if you are technically correct; the judge is still going to slam you for it.