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Fun Spending John Adams Dollars

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 Posted 05/27/2007  5:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TheForce to your friends list
I don't even collect these but I'm doing my part to get these things circulation and making people aware of them.
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 Posted 05/28/2007  01:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gary Burke to your friends list
I enjoy spending them, and have spent two rolls so far.

Most clerks didn't seem surprised by them, so maybe they are circulating a little bit.
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 Posted 05/28/2007  6:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TheForce to your friends list
Just picked up a few more today at the store where I work. I plan on spending them!!
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 Posted 05/28/2007  10:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CPChicago to your friends list
I bought some to look through (still need to get to that) and plan on spending them too. Seems easier than trucking them all back to the bank...
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 Posted 05/28/2007  11:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tomb to your friends list
I like to keep them in the car for tolls.
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 Posted 05/30/2007  2:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TheForce to your friends list
Spending these today was a hoot. I spent some at Taco Bell and the clerk looked dumbfounded. Her look was priceless! She was just looking at them after I paid. Since nobody was in line after me, she took them out of her till again just looking at them with a look of confusion!

And I spent some at Meijer and Wal-mart with no problems. Darn! lol
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 Posted 05/30/2007  2:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add basicbob101 to your friends list
left some for a tip in a restuarant and the bus boy picked them up, looked them over, and laid them back down for the waitress. Didn't see her expression.

I had as convienence store refuse to take them, the person in charge was from a Middle Eastern country and he flatly refused! I had the same problem with him a while back with some Kennedy half dollars. I told him I would never be back and would also pass that recommendation on to everyone I knew.
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 Posted 05/30/2007  3:02 pm  Show Profile   Check GO's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GO to your friends list
Went to Wal*Mart and my total was $4 somethin

I used a SBA, Ike, Half, 2 GeorgeW$, and '76 quarter. This poor girl had to be only 16-17. I think she had an aneurysm or something.
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 Posted 05/30/2007  8:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TheForce to your friends list
If I were a cashier again I would be super excited to get those!!
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 Posted 05/30/2007  9:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add OldDan to your friends list
A comment from one of the gals at the cafe,"All those old men look alike, to me!" I guess that its a good thing they put their names on each coin.
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 Posted 05/30/2007  10:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jmpearso to your friends list
I have yet to see these coins, I wish I would get one in change but I dont think it will ever catch on....
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 Posted 05/31/2007  01:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add imanangel0686 to your friends list
I got a bicentennial half dollar yesterday in a deposit at work, I got so excited. its the first time since iv worked at the bank that iv gotten a half dollar. We are lucky though we are one of the only branches that get the prez. dollars so I'm always giving them out to customers in the drive-thru rather than dollar bills. It has been a lot of fun so far.
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 Posted 05/31/2007  07:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add muckeye to your friends list
If your dollar coins are not very popular, what do your poker machine pay out in , quarters?
Get your Treasury to bite the bullet and stop printing dollar notes. Problem solved.
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 Posted 05/31/2007  09:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TheForce to your friends list
I don't think the United States will follow Canada's lead by eliminating the $1 and $2 notes so these dollar coins will never work.
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 Posted 05/31/2007  11:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list
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If your dollar coins are not very popular, what do your poker machine pay out in , quarters?
Get your Treasury to bite the bullet and stop printing dollar notes. Problem solved.



Many casinos use privately minted $1 tokens with their casino logo and the quarter machines pay out regular quarters. Some of the newer casinos now have machines that don't even pay out- you get a paper reciept of your winnings and cash it in at the cashier's cage.

Believe me, I wish they would stop using paper and go to all coins. Of course, that would create another problem- tips for the "gentlemen's clubs" would then have to be $2 bills
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