Obscure Currency

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Does anyone else ever spend obscure currency just to see what kind of reaction you will get?

I once spent a Sacajawea Dollar (the cashier thought I gave her a quarter - then looked closer and said "Oh, one of those?")

My favorite to use, though, is the two-dollar bill. My parents will usually ask for them at the bank because they know that I like them, although it takes a few clerks to get a good amount!
The responses I've received were:
-(Turning back) "Do we take two-dollar bills?"
-"Whoa! A lot of twos." (Lifts up the money tray in the register and sticks them underneath)
-(Person puts the money away, does a double-take)
-(No unusual reaction whatsoever)

I'd use a 2 cent coin, but I have to find one first.

As a former cashier, these things are pretty annoying. Then again though, I can't complain, as I got some nice interesting and rare money this way - A couple of silver certificates and a really nice liberty dollar.

My brother once had a two dollar bill.

I have a replica of a $3 bill.

I once tried to buy a soda with some stone money from the Island of Yap. That stuff is hard to carry around in your pocket.

Regular American money is obscure enough already for me. You ever take a look at that stuff? It's covered in pyramids and floating eyeballs and crap.

I have a collection of about 20 wheat pennies from when I wasa cashier.

I was once given what a cashier thought was a penny in change. It is a penny farthing from 1929, and has George V on the back.
I also have a 3d coin from 1917 that I found on the ground.

I've kept all the interesting stuff I've found. I've never tried to use something more unusual than coins from Gibraltor of the Isle of Man (hardly noticeable difference, and legal tender throughout the UK (I think))

I once had a Japanese yen coin. That was interesting, because I was interested in Japan at the time.

I like to collect interesting obscure money, but I don't really like spending any of it.
I have:

About 250 two Dollar bills
13 Sacajawea Dollars
4 Susan B. Anthony Dollars
5 Silver Dollars
31 Bicentennial half-Dollars and over 100 regular ones
14 Bicentennial quarters
28 Wheat pennies, the oldest is from 1917 also a few Indian-head pennies
6 Steel wheat pennies from 1943
1 Canadian one Dollar coin
6 Old Canadian pennies with King George on them
2 Swiss Franc coins, and 1 Half-Franc coin, also a 10 Franc note
1 Five Pence coin
1 Six Pence coin
1 Ten Centime coin from France
2 One cent Euro coins
1 Twenty cent Euro coin
1 One cent coin from Barbados
1 Ten cent coin from the British Caribbean Territories
2 Coins that I don't know where they come from
1 Fifteen something coin from Soviet Russia

Virtually all of these were found or collected by chance.

I have some old indian head pennies from a long time ago.

No. They have the profile of an Indian on one side of it.