Using The Presidential $1 Coins

I ask for $50.00 worth from my credit union most every week. I search through the rolls pick a couple of "keepers" and spend the rest.

Responses to the use are somewhat amusing.
- I save these. from a local gas station clerk I frequent.
- What are these? from a lot of people not as many as when they 1st came out though.
- I really appreciate the coins you left me! from tipping. (Not sure it is the dollar coin or the amount of tip there thanking me for?)
- Is this real?
the list goes on....
- I hate these things I can't give them away!from a clerk who can't pass them off in handing out change.

Interesting "breath and scope" as to the "travelling" of our currency. It's not just for Americans here in the U.S. based on "our" usage and "our" populous......

I received some as change when I broke a large bank note I still have them,but I have never spent one before !

For a clerk to say that they can't be given away as change, that's total crap! We had $30 worth laying in the safe at work because the boss didn't want them in the registers, so I put them in my register and at the end of my 8-hour shift, there were three left. If someone gets back $6 in change, I'd hand them a $5 bill and a $1 coin, and the only one that I stayed away from was the SBA, unless someone did not have quarters coming back to them. And stores should use half dollars as change, they are much more efficent at giving back 50 cents or more in change as opposed to two quarters.

To not give them in change is not showing effort. Oh, and people of Hispanic descent never flinch when given them.

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The vending machines at work give them as change. I lived in Japan for awhile, so putting a $10 (1000 yen) into a vending machine became...normal. Now it's here in the states. I keep them for snacks and also as allowances for my kids. My residual halves from searching too!

The light rail system in St. Louis gives them as change when feeding a $5, 10, or 20 into the vending machine to get a ticket and I was in Ft. Lauderdale/Pampano Beach on vacation last summer where the parking meters used $1 coins($2/hour on the beach)

The Texas department of criminal justice makes peaple use them all time at the prison units. In all units they have bill changers to turn dollars into dollar coins.

Reason its an felony for family members of inmates to bring in any paper money into an secure prison to visit family members on Death row or any of those convicts there. Paper money is contraband just like drugs or weapons in an texas prison.

So they installed bill changers where employess or inmates family members can spend money in those vending machices since you cant bring any paper money unless you want to go to jail .

It seems the unit I work at the machice for dollar coins is always out and I get to use quarter machices all the time. They go thru tons dollar coins at that place on visit days.

We are forced to use them no mater what and anybody esle who comes into texas prisons . I like geting them out the change machice hoping to find an proof coin or whatever.

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