One Of The Dumbest Things I've Ever Seen.... Hurry!

WOW!

Sorry, I could not help it. I just had to post a comment on that article.

Talk about S T U P I D

MM

I today got my *first* Presidential dollar from the store(it was a jefferson). The thing is that the girl ask me if I wanted it, or a paper dollar. I guess a lot of people don't want them, so she needs to ask...now that I think about...IT MUST BE COUNTERFEIT! I'm calling the FBI.

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I just wonder if the three hash marks are a "W" mint mark

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I don't think they produced any of them at West Point, just P & D for circs and S for proofs

MM

Wow,

This strange and sad. I had lots problems with using those 2 dollars bills and those new dollar coins. Even an lady at sears refused them from me before.

This story makes me want to go bank and buy an thousand dollar fed box of those new dollars coins or brick of 2 dollars to use as spending money.

Reason I may get luckey and end up in Jail for no reason for few days and then I hire an lawyer after they release me and sue them for large amount of money and win big time. Its sounds like fun to me to watch all those police guys feel stupid in front those fed guys or in an court room being sued for unlawful jail time.

I hope the mother and father of that kid gets an good lawyer and makes an million dollars or more from that stupid police peaple or newspaper.

Chevrolet454ss

I think you are overly critical. How many of you can identify current production stamps? I've had bank tellers not know there were new/different coins coming out. The teller that knew Madison wasn't out was correct. It's not out in circulation. It should be "suspicious". I don't expect to see proofs in circulation. People that don't collect coins, may not even know there is such a thing as proofs. The only errors are the idiot kid spending proof coins and how the police handled the situation. And it sounds like they knew what they had but the just didn't look right.

Don't expect everyone to be the expert you are.

Fatcat

UNREAL!

Yes, the bank should have had some idea and the police WAY over reacted, but it is really a problem of lack of education. The average American has not seen or even heard of the President $1 coins. My bank tells me that they have some collector interest when each coin is issued and then they cannot give them away. Americans are pretty use to their coins looking the same as they have for most if not all of their lifetime and are caught off guard when things change. I still walk around handing them out with a purchase and after all this time I still get some of the funniest reactions. Just more freight for the bus carrying the Sac and SBA. Your tax dollars at work. For any success, the paper dollar has to be removed from circulation.
Jim

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Officers said markings missing on the coins made them appear counterfeit, such as three connected hash marks.

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Within the field of play, additional markings include yard markers, as well as inbound lines (also called interior hash marks, running the length of the field near the center of the field), every yard the length of the field. The inbound lines (hash marks), which are short lines perpendicular to the yard markers, differ in distance from the sidelines at each main level of the game:

* NFL: 70¾ feet (21½ m) from the sidelines; this means that the hash marks are separated from one another by the width of the goalposts.
* College: 60 feet (18¼ m) from the sidelines.
* High school: 53 1/3 feet (16¼ m) from the sidelines, dividing the field into thirds.

When a play stops (someone is tackled) inside the interior hash marks (the dashed lines near the center of the field), the ball is placed where the person was tackled to start the next play. If the play stops outside the interior hash marks (nearer the sidelines), the ball is placed where the person was tackled, but on the nearest hash mark, closer to the center of the field. This is to keep play running down the center of the field, not too close to the sideline.