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Moderator
 United States
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These are what I have gotten over the past year at my business. Just one Eisenhower dollar?  |
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Valued Member
United States
337 Posts |
Not every place will recognize them. They will soon go the wa of 2 and 3 cent pieces, which you could actually spend.
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Valued Member
United States
127 Posts |
I spend them all the time. Only had to explain what they were once or twice. I use them at toll booths often.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1704 Posts |
I have actually had the person in line behind me checking out buy the halves or dollar coins from the cashier when I was done. One woman asked if I had more and I told her I did and she bought those also. The same has happened with two dollar bills.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I just used 6 dollar coins to pay for a meal at a drive through burger joint and I must say just grabbing 6 coins out of my cup holder instead of unbuckeling, grabbing my wallet, counting 6 dollars or a 10 and wait for the change to then put it back in my wallet, then put wallet back in pocket, buckle up again... dollar coins rock as car $
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7840 Posts |
Yes...which reminds me that I am running low and need to gets some. Thanks for the memory jogger!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1158 Posts |
I spent some recently. I had no problem, but the teenaged cashier said, "Whoa, I've never seen one of these before!"
Made their day I guess!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3077 Posts |
I was in a small town in western VA this winter and I bought $100 in halves and spent them all over town for 2 weeks
never did I get an evil look most the older ladies dont bat an eye but them thar teeny boppers had to study them hard
several times they would count them as dollars and try to give me bills back
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05/31/2015 07:41 am
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I have spent all of the Half Dollars I came across in the 'States, without any problem at all.
Australian half dollars (50c) of about the same size, are in very common circulation.
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Pillar of the Community
1325 Posts |
all the time. Bought a 10 inch tablet back in December with about 9 rolls of them.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
535 Posts |
People in Canada still on occasion spend 50 cent pieces. My sister works as a cash supervisor for a pharmacy and gets some about every 3 weeks. In fact she gave me 6 of them last Friday. Of course I am never lucky enough for them to be silver. She has even got a couple of U.S. half dollars
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Pillar of the Community
United States
621 Posts |
Yes. Clerks seem to prefer them to nickels and dimes and pennies when using coins to pay for a $20-30 purchase in my experience. Lol.
Whenever I have someone pay with halves(fairly often. A regular is a roll searcher and pays with them) I also hand them back out in change instead of 2 quarters. I've never had anyone complain or get upset by doing so even though some employees are afraid if they give them out in change it will happen.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2637 Posts |
Stopped by a local bank, picked up a roll from the vault. Looked them over -- all 71-74, no appeal that I could find -- so I bought a set of Special Olympics forever stamps with them.
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New Member
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Got two halves today at a bank. First time in a long time they had any.
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Posted 05/27/2015 1:15 pm
