Does The Public Like Half Dollars?

I have been in retail for a decade. ANY coins other then the norm are a Pain! Same as the $2 note. I'll have Always bought them out of the drawer just to forgo the trouble of counting them separately for the deposit.

But they sure are fun to spend

numismatists don't count as "public"

we are always the exception of the rule of thumb that governs the vast majority of the conglomerate of souls in the US

but NOTHING is as fun as spending an Ike at McDonalds with a teenager at the helm. Poor kids have to call their manager over....who is only a few years older anyways.

Good times

numismatists seems hard to pronounce

now numismatics is much easier

In my experience, it doesn't seem like they do. Generally when I go to a register to spend them the cashier always has to ask "Is this a dollar or a half dollar?" The cashiers that I go to frequently sometimes look really put out when I come their way and when I have tried to spend $10 in halves in paper rolls they always try to break them open and give them back to me. If I wanted to keep them I could have taken them out of the roll myself. I have to ask them for paper bills.

I worked for a while as a cashier in a supermarket and I was able to swap $2 bills and half dollars, and occasionally dollar coins into my drawer on a regular basis. I would then give them out as normal change. It is from my experience that men either loved receiving these or did not notice or did not care. Young women looked a bit perplexed but took them. Old women always seemed to remark with something like "Ohh I remember these." Middle-aged women tended to be the *itchiest and were most likely to demand "regular" money.

So I would say that most of the public doesn't care either way, or likes them.

The public don't use halves that much. So generally speaking I will say they don't like them. However collectors do.