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So after I took some half dollars into the grocery store today and the clerk was looking at each one saying "wow, I've never seen one before..." I decided this needed a topic. This is my 4th time now since I started collecting silver half dollars dealing with someone who was in awe over these alien coins. One girl at a fast food establishment got a little too excited about the coins...
Have you all ever experienced this when you try to drop off your unwanted coins?
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United States
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I had kids call the manager a few times.
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I tried paying for a full tank of gas, about $45, in Sacagawea dollars that I collected as a child. None of them were worth keeping really. It was about a month ago and they wouldn't accept them! Said they didn't have a slot in their register for it. I even spoke to the manager and he was very rude, saying that it was absurd that I thought it would be acceptable to pay that much for gas, let alone anything, in only coins. Went down the road a few miles and found a station that accepted them. The woman working the register there didn't even think twice. Edited by Pytellc
03/04/2015 1:53 pm
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Personally I want to see the $1 coins circulate more and I enjoy spending them when I have the opportunity. But I don't think dumping $45 worth of them on a cashier in one shot is a good way to promote the coin. Clearly there are two camps as you pointed out... some that don't mind and some that do.
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You're right, maybe it was too much. I just thought money is money, no matter in what form.
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United States
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This is a fun game for me to play honestly, drives my wife nuts. I often pay for things with Ike dollars. Get quite the reaction from young ones, "never see one before, is it legal, is it silver, I thought they are only worth 50 cents, let me get my boss etc... Recently was in Vancouver B.C. and tried to buy my morning coffee with a $20 canadian bill from the 70's...that was quite the adventure.  Edited by ksmcents
03/04/2015 2:40 pm
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United States
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I had a similar experience where I bought lunch at school with a Sacagawea dollar, a 1991 half dollar, and bills to cover the rest. The lunch lady thought I was trying to pay with fake money, and refused to let me leave. I told her that these coins are completely legit, and she should look the up online. I then said she can call security if she can prove they're fake, but they're completely real. Kinda funny looking back because she once wouldn't let me buy lots of one item on the menu until I convinced her otherwise. |
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Canada
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If someone owed you $350 from a bet... would you prefer they pay you in dimes or dollars?
At some point even when the coins are still considered money.. everyone has their thresshold as to the minimum denomination....
(unless you CRH... and then you're just happier than a kid in a candy store to receive $350 in cents! ... crazy hunters!)
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United States
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If you owe me $350 I would rather have three hundreds and a fifty. But I will take 35000 cents.
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I forgot about the other day when I went to McDonalds and the guy gave me too much change back when I gave him a couple half dollars. I'm not sure what he thought they were (maybe dollars) but I gave the change back to him. I remember him looking at the coins for probably a good 10-15 seconds before finally muttering "whatever" and throwing the change into the register.
I'm lucky to have a mom who was a manager of a gas station and taught me a lot about money, counting money, and bringing home different types of coins.
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United States
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Everyone should remember that so few today have seen coins like a 2, 3, 20 Cent coin. Same with a .50 coin, just not used a lot. And as to those baby sized dollars, so many organizations don't want them so people that work there don't see them either. Now if you remember that statistics claim we now have over 30 million Mexicans living here and working in places that take money, they would recognize a Peso long before most of our coins. Most fast food place hire kids and they too just don't see coins like a half dollar so you have to imagine what goes on in their heads when they see one. In stores today possibly half of the transactions are don't with plastic cards so those people too just don't see to many coins at all.
It is all so much like as if a cave man popped up on a street in a big city.
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Australia withdrew the paper one dollar note in 1984, but they were not demonetised.
Twenty years later, I gave ten one dallar notes to each of my two kids for them to spend, and have fun with.
That was at a time when only one dollar coins circulated, the notes never seen in circulation.
None of the young checkout chicks would accept them, but all of the people over about 50 years old behind the counter were delighted to accept them, and exchange their own pocket coin dollars for them.
My teenage kids had lots of fun recirculating the old 'funny money' !
Why on Earth cannot the U.S. withdraw all one Dollar notes, and compulsorily circulate one dolar coins only?
It all seems so illogical to me.
Great Britain did it.
Canada did it.
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United States
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Would it be any different if you paid for gas with 45 single bills?
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United States
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So it seems I am not the only one that has encountered problems with other "non-numismatically" inclined people. I had a gas station attendant threaten to call the cops on me because I gave him a 20$ bill and then 8 Presidential dollars. I told him its legal US money and call whoever you want and I left. Seems to me if your from NJ anyone who works at a gas pump is a immigrant anyway and barely can make correct change from paper money. Nevermind hand him something he probably has never before seen in his life. |
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Why on Earth cannot the U.S. withdraw all one Dollar notes, and compulsorily circulate one dolar coins only? Politics, or more accurately, lobbyists. Quote:
It all seems so illogical to me. It is. Quote:
Great Britain did it. Canada did it. Yup. |
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