Keep You Eyes Open

As strange as it sounds, you may have trouble spending some of these coins. If people don't recognize the coin, they may say "We only take US coins."

I had this happen for about the first 3 months of spending the SBA dollars and even now I've had cashiers look at Presidential dollars and tell me they couldn't take them because they though they were "Play Money" or because they didn't have a date on the coin.

I'm always dropping scratched or corroded wheat cents into my spending change and having them turn down steel cents as fake or try to give me change for a dime.

Let us know if anyone questions any of the coins.

Ben

As strange as it sounds, you may have trouble spending some of these coins. If people don't recognize the coin, they may say "We only take US coins.


i have had this happen quite a few times. all I do is say it is an united states of america coin what denom it is the year it was minted and they take it.

1857 Flying Eagle cent
1859 Indian Head cent
1899 Indian Head cent
1868 Shield nickel
1936 Buffalo nickel
1834 CAPPED BUST DIME
1853 Seated dime
1913 Barber dime
1943 Mercury dime
1856 Seated quarter
1899 Barber quarter
1928 Standing Liberty quarter
1899 Barber half dollar
1935 Walking Liberty half dollar
1948 Franklin half dollar.*

and as a bonus I will try to spend a 1923 $1 dollar large silver certificate.


well here is my update.

i spent the cents at an ihop the cashier took them looked at them and put them in the register without a word.

i spent the 1856 quarter at a rockies game buying a program. the person took it without a word.

i ended up giving the rest to my sister. I was planning on doing more shopping but I was screwed out of 500 dollars right before I left. I plan to do this again in march when I go back down to colorado again.