Ended - Project $100k- Circulating Dollar And Half Dollar Coins

I exchanged five dollar coins for a crisp Series 1963 $5 US Note that my co-workers found in the drawer today (was someone's collection raided recently?).

$99,874 to go.

Hello all, here at work we have a change machine that gives Presidential and Sacagaweas. I exchange around $100 a week looking for errors. Once I go through them I spend them at the local swapmeets and liquor stores. But I have to minus this one cause its staying in my collection even though I can buy a better looking one, it is a find and I keep most finds.
Edward M.
$99,772. Oooppps $99,773

Very nice proof find.

I used 3 in volleyball last night.

$99,770 left to go.

Today, I spent the $27 and three additional ones for a total of 30 dollar coins. I spent five at a car show's concession stand and one roll with a $20 bill for gas.

$99,731 to go.

I get these relatively often, say 10-12 times a month, at my job (I'm a cashier at a gas station) and cheerfully both accept them, and return them into circulation. I don't have any recently that I can share, but I absolutely had a gentleman come in over the holiday and buy all of the ones in my drawer (7 Presidential gold, 1 "old"/date on the face of the coin Sacagawea, 1 of the newer "sheaf of wheat" Sacagawea, one Susan B.) to give to his grandchildren for Passover. Since I assume at least some of those will eventually be spent on candy or toys . . . $99 714 to go!

I just spent $4 at the gas station on the corner. The cashier immediately pulled a $5 bill from her pocket and exchanged them out. It appears I may have found a fellow coin collector.

$99,707 left to go.

I picked up 15 loose ones from the bank today, and the teller asked me specifically which ones I preferred. I told her to give me as many Sacagaweas as possible, and here's today's bunch:

6x 2000-P Sacagawea
1x 2000-D Sacagawea
1x 2001-D Sacagawea
1x 2009-P NA
1x 2010-D NA
1x 2007-P Adams
1x 2007-P Jefferson
1x 2009-P Polk
1x 2011-P Hayes
1x 2011-P Garfield

Murrellington: Is yours a five-spot drawer? If so, there's absolutely a place for them: the empty coin-catcher (to the left of quarters). My work actually has our registers set up to accept these: we don't put anything larger than a $20 bill in our registers, so the space normally used for $50 bills is our "unusual currency" slot (50c pieces, dollar coins, $2 bills, and more recently, "any weird junk you find because then we can watch Nina and Leilani race to the drawer to see who can buy it first").


Also, today, I took in four dollar coins, and my coworker got three:

1x SAB 1980
1x Sacagawea (2008, I believe? The one with the two hands passing each other a bundle of sticks on the back)
1x John Adams
1x not sure which President, because the lady immediately behind this guy in line went "ooh, I'd like that, please!"
3x Eisenhower

I sent two back into circulation: the unknown President (probably Washington, I get a lot of those), and the SAB; my coworker and I purchased the Eisenhowers between us.

So a question for other participants: since the dollar coins in my drawer get back into circulation "eventually" (usually within 1-3 days; most people reserve them for when they're out of dollar bills, I try to give them to little kids), should I count all dollar coins I take in, or only the ones I send back out?

If the former, we've got $99 700 to go; if the latter, $99 702.