Clerk Reactions To Odd Coins?

While walking through a drugstore one day I overheard two clerks discussing whether a quarter they were looking at was real.
It looked too white to them.

I offered to put their minds at ease and ended up buying the silver quarter from them for a quarter.

All U.S. coinage ever minted is still legal tender, no matter how old.

I wonder what a clerk's reaction would be if you tried to spend a bunch of nickel three-cent pieces?

Wow! Ynnad, that's quite a story. Quite interesting how a coin can be used in one way and not another.

That reminds of the time when I got a job working at a credit union (which was basically the same thing as a bank). As part of our training we were given a slide show of... money. We were shown what a one-dollar bill looked like, a five-dollar bill, etc., as well as what a penny looked like, a nickel, a dime, and so on. Obviously no one was coached on how to handle a defunct denomination.

To be fair, a lot of cashiers are younger folks that probably don't use coins let alone cash. That doesn't change the fact they most of them are stupid and that our schools are failing us. Want to have fun? Let's say your total is $4.27 and you give them a $5, this is the fun part, AFTER they ring the $5 tell them, "Oh wait! I have 27 cents." You can see the wheels in their head spinning and it might even smell like something is burning while they try to figure it out. I've even had one whip out their cell phone and use the calculator.

I have spent a bunch of Presidential dollars at the gas station and not been questioned.

Here's a (more or less on-topic) story from when I was a cashier myself.

In the summer of 1980, when I was in my late teens, I worked nights at a gas station. This was during the time when gas was just getting to be over $1 a gallon, and most gas pumps were not yet equipped to handle this. The way this was addressed, for the time being, was that the pumps were set for half the price -- i.e., 51 cents a gallon when the price was $1.02 -- and the customer would pay twice the amount that the pump said. Needless to say, this caused a fair amount of confusion at times.

Anyway, one night a customer tried to pay with a 1928 $20 bill. I would have exchanged $20 of my own money to get this for myself afterwards, except that I didn't have $20 of my own money handy. So, not sure what else to do, I told the customer they should keep it and pay with another bill.

Of course, I now wish I had somehow managed to get the bill for myself. Oh well. I wonder whatever happened to it.

Enjoy your time on the Redneck Riviera, mrwiskers!

Really Want To Have Fun / When a Clerk tells you the amount /

Ask if They Accept Out of State Cash / You could tell them it's from Louisiana.

I have a sign saying I accept Out of State Cash / No Check's / It Really Confuse Young People

..."out - of - state cash" ... what's so funny here, JBuck? ... I have 3 Alabama silver dollars right here ... neighbor paid me to cut his grass (the quarter was extra/tip) ...

...I realize that they're a little worn, but, HEY!, the're silver!!

... Who's laughning now?...