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

Spent 3 SAC$

$14,743 to go!

I spent $1 in halves to gain admission to a car museum. Then, I spent $6 in dollar coins to buy a sandwich from a deli, for a total of $7 in coins.

$14,722.50 to go.

I joined the Forum because of this project and my desire to report on my coin / money philosophy. As a farmers market seller of produce, we have to give change constantly and can make some choices as to how we do that. I made a decision 9 years ago to do things differently than our competitors just like we grow and sell unusual vegetables, we take mostly Half dollars and two dollar bills to market for making change.
This highlights our different nature and quality of products. I had thought of using dollar coins too, but that presents a MAJOR practical problem as we get vastly more dollar bills in payment for produce than anything else. So, despite my desire to use the dollar coins, they are not part of our strategy.
How does this relate to the project in this thread? Well, I have moved from around $200 a week of $2 bills and $40 in half dollars to now over $200 in half dollars every week and $600 in $2 bills every week that we give out. Also, it has cut our transaction efforts slightly and the time needed too.
So how much have I sent into circulation of the half dollar coins? Over $60,000 in 9 years. Currently over $10,000 in half dollars per year go into circulation and we account for 3/4 of the half dollars our bank branch sends out.
Grant

Nice marketing tool.

Accountability here obviously should be for each transaction--half dollar change for this corn, two half dollars change for that lettuce, etc. [grin, nudge] just kidding, of course!

What a great idea, Farm_Flavor! and

We'll be done with this project in no time!

Total was a little off, adjusting for that


5 Ike$ for breakfast (the cashier had to ask if they were dollars)
13 SAC$ at retail store for soft drinks
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18 spent by me
$215 in halves that Farm_Flavor spent
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233 total

$14,414 to go

Total Ike$ Spent on Project 100K = 7696

I spent $4 in dollar coins to buy a gallon of milk.

$14,409 to go.

4 Ikes at the flea market this past weekend.

$14,401 to go.

Total Ikes spent on the project: 7700