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Pillar of the Community
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Is it possible it's regional? I mean, are halves used more in some parts of the country than others? I wouldn't think so, but you never know? I don't think so. They were used in Vegas (slot machines) longer than anywhere else (but now most slots don't take coin). But they are basically a denomination that doesn't circulate (like the dollars) |
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United States
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Correct me if I'm wrong...but I don't believe I called anybody an idiot in my posts. Not quite an idiot, but: Quote:
I don't think you have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that there is probably a denomination between 25 cents and a dollar (since there are 2 denominations between 1 cent and the quarter).
We kind of got going on halves (my fault) when what I really had in mind were the multitude of different dollar coins. I have had a retail management job and I have had a lot of experience with customer service. But, I may not have made my point very well earlier. I am not suggesting that the cashier should refuse to take the half. I'm just saying that I can understand them being skeptical. Should they take the half they have never seen without making a big scene? Absolutely! As you said, it's only 50 cents. But, should they take a handful of "funny colored", Presidential dollars they have never seen before without getting someone's OK? As a manager, I would be glad they asked me. (and then I would immediately begin some better training for my cashiers!) |
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Canada
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It's not only in the US that there is a problem with not knowing your country's coinage.
After my mother died, I found a hoard of 50 cent pieces and nickel dollars (along with about $600 in other change in various areas of the house). I took the lot to the bank to trade it in for paper. The teller behind the counter had no problem with the rolled quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. It was the 50 cent pieces and nickel dollars that threw her. She had to ask her manager if they were "real" -- and she was in her late 20s and early 30s...go figure.
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United States
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I actually go to banks for the odd currency just to see people look puzzled and or excited when they get something they rarely see. I look through say 300 half dollars and hope to find a few silver ones and then use the rest to buy gas, groceries and the rest go back to the bank. I too have had the question as to whether the half, 2 dollar bill or Ike dollar are real. It's kind of fun but yes a bit sad. |
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United States
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I don't want to be a stick in the mud but maybe its time to retire the half dollars. Nobody uses them anyways and it seems like a waste producing coins that the public won't use.
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United States
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Haven't they basically retired halves by making them NIFC? And since the Mint sells them solely to numismatists, they aren't losing money on them per a post on another thread https://goccf.com/t/58889 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I feel just producing coins for collectors just isn't enough. Perhaps if the mint offered direct ship for halves it could spark a fire to get these circulating again. But then I don't know how successful the dollar coin direct ship program is working to get these in use for daily commerce.
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United States
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As a cashier I try to do my part in getting halves back in to circulation, I usually put a roll in my till at the begining of my shift and hand them out in change. unfortunately it has really proven how obsolete haves are. from what I've seen most transactions are done with plastic now and whenever cash is paid people will try and give you change as well just so they wont have to get the 50 or more in change back. that said I've never been able to get rid of a whole roll even during an 8 hour shift, and a few times the ones I have handed out get returned to me in exchange for 2 quarters because they "dont want to deal with them"
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United States
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As a cashier I try to do my part in getting halves back in to circulation, I usually put a roll in my till at the begining of my shift and hand them out in change. unfortunately it has really proven how obsolete haves are. from what I've seen most transactions are done with plastic now and whenever cash is paid people will try and give you change as well just so they wont have to get the 50 or more in change back. that said I've never been able to get rid of a whole roll even during an 8 hour shift, and a few times the ones I have handed out get returned to me in exchange for 2 quarters because they "dont want to deal with them"
Sure wish I knew where you are. At the 5 different banks I go to I've been told NO MORE HALF DOLLARS. Bank of America by me will not order them for any customer regardless of anything. The employees have been instructed to tell customers no more halves at all. They do not keep any in their vaults, at a cashiers station, etc. And if you bring them in, they will be sent out to the Federal Researve. No teller or employee is allowed to hoard, save, put aside any half dollars for themselves or customers. I USED to be able to get halves all the time but now, not even one. I USED to enjoy spending them for the reaction, but no longer. I have a friend that runs a company that deals with vending machines. NONE of his vending machines take half dollars or the baby sized dollars. In most stores the cash registers do not have a place for the half dollar or the baby sized dollar. People that work in places that use a belt type coin changer, train conductors, do not have a place in those changers for halves or baby sized dollars. Some on the rude side will actually tell passengers to take those and ..... Ask people if they would rather carry 10 of those baby dollars or 10 dollar bills. Guess what? Almost all will say paper any time. I know many people that do not carry change of any kind ever. My Son for one. Even on an add for insurance on TV a guy states every day when he comes home he puts all his change in a jar. Many, many people do because the don't want to carry anything heavy. We as people just are lazy and don't want to loose weight by carrying piles of coins. All the banks around me have those baby sized dollars out where you can see them and no one takes them. Some tellers even ask if you want them. Not many takers. Eventually all coins will be replaced by electronic purchases anyway so why all the fuss about a half or dollar coin? |
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 United States
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Ask people if they would rather carry 10 of those baby dollars or 10 dollar bills. Guess what? Almost all will say paper any time. That is why the baby dollars do not circulate. If they want it to work, then do not give people the option; stop printing the one dollar Federal Reserve Note. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 EXACTLY ! ...... Remove the "choice"......then they can grumble....but just eventually accept it and move on with their lives ! And 10 years after that, the FRN will be a distant memory ! And THEN and ONLY THEN, will people start getting out their Susan B. Anthony's, their old Sacagawea's, their Native Dollars, and their Presidential dollars to spend! And these massive piles of billions in dollar coins sitting in BU condition in banks will finally begin to circulate by the masses. It's the only way it's gonna happen ! Edited by eaglefoot
01/26/2010 3:35 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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wonderful tread, on how supposedly we are so ignorant as a society to know we don't have a 50 cent piece or, for sometime, a gold dollar that KNOW ONE KNOWS ABOUT. at least for the general public. If one was to concider,,,,that in the past we have had a history of using the $.50 cent piece, and of those who remember, in your area the silver dollar in circulation,,,YES 1970 and less depending on where you lived, Paper was always easier to use and less bulk to carry. Remember the machines we all buy Cokes form and all the rest of the vending machines are based the common coins...dimes, nickles and quarters. its a simple thing to realize the $0.50 and dollar coin was useless.......however
collectors have followed each minting year....in anticipation of the new year......Numismatics has allowed the minting of these USELESS coins.......they won't fit into any modern machine........to make change...try putting your gold dollar into a carwash machine!!the fact is they are made to continue the need for the continual coin collector.......nothing more and certainly nothing less........try carrying 1000 new gold dollars or simply 10 100 bills....what will you have in your pockets?..coins today represent a deficit.....not a real value...thats why they took silver and gold out of circulation........it costs the government 3 cents to make a quarter 25 cents.....is it not interesting to read the profit the US mint makes eaaaach year? well its 22 cents per item.....so if the mint 100 million pieces they profit.........YOU DO THE MATH..I have already read the mints profit articles........My point being, in the end,,,,,,why 50 cent pieces. or why dollars........its a liniage of collecting that will continue although the general public will seldom use............and quality of the BANK ROLL UNCIRCULATED items is
SOOOOOOO POOR.........open a roll for you self maybe MS60...Right from the MINT>>>>>>>>
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I paid for $4 worth of groceries with 8 halves, and the checker tried to give me $36 in change.  |
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United States
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they won't fit into any modern machine........to make change...try putting your gold dollar into a carwash machine! There are many vending machines in my area that accept half dollars and dollar coins. I am not saying they all do, but most of the new ones do. The car wash I use takes everything from a quarter to a twenty dollar bill; with exception to the two dollar bill for some reason. The toll road definitely accepts them. It is a one dollar toll, so it makes perfect sense to accept the dollar coin in the automated lanes. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Too much TV and too many video games.
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