You have questions? Check out what we have to say. If you still have questions, drop us a line at our Contact page.
See the different categories of questions below: General and Business.
General questions:
Where can I buy Davis Dollars? Where are you guys located, anyway?
You can buy Davis Dollars at a few businesses around town. We’re finalizing our agreements with them right now, but we’ll add to this list as soon as we have them! Email us (nick at davisdollars.org) if you want to be updated when we have the list ready.
How do you prevent counterfeiting?
Like any bill (including US dollars), we can’t make Davis Dollars impossible to counterfeit. We just make it hard enough to do that it really isn’t worth it. How do we do this? It’s printed on an expensive, high-quality paper. It has a lot of colors so it’s expensive to photocopy, and each bill has a serial number on it. The serial numbers are printed in a metallic color, which is difficult to copy or reproduce, even digitally.
We also keep track of every single bill that is in circulation, using each bill’s serial number. We ask each business to contact us if someone pays for something using an unusually large number of bills, so we can check right away whether all those serial numbers are actually in circulation.
Hey, hasn’t someone launched (or talked about launching) a community currency in Davis before?
We speak to a lot of people around town who mention various attempts at different times to start community currencies – it’s obviously an idea that’s in the air. Good to know lots of people are thinking about it!
We’ve actually had difficulty getting in contact with anyone who has actually worked on one of these past currency projects, though. If you have, or you know someone who has, contact us and let us know! We’d love to talk.
Business questions:
For business questions please visit the Business FAQs.
