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Pillar of the Community
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Like many of us, I often get dollar and half-dollar coins at the bank and make it a point to spend them, in order to get them circulating. (I also do the same with two-dollar bills.)
I thought it would be fun to share any memorable reactions we've gotten from clerks at the register, or anyone else who might have been involved.
Strangely enough, most of the time I get no reaction. Occasionally the person will say, "Oh, cool!" or something like that. The only time I ever had a problem was when the woman at the register accepted my gold dollar coin, carefully examined it, and then yelled to her manager, "Hey Sheila! Are we accepting tokens?"
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08/15/2015 10:58 pm
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Valued Member
United States
486 Posts |
today at work a man gave me a small dollar and I gladly accepted
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Rest in Peace
United States
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getting off the subject a bit. has any one spent a PO-01 common Buffalo
nickel or cull V-nickel to purchase something ?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A buff maybe but if you tried to spend a V nick I'm guessing most would think it's Canadian money lol I don't get many reactions when I spend them either oddly enough  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I Don't even try to spend anything except normal, everyday types of money. Where I live the population is so heavy in Hispanic, I could more easily spend a Peso. I used to spend a lot of Half Dollars but just to many strange reactions.
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I think I posted all my horror stories about how sad it is that money-handlers are uneducated about what money is in the 11k dollar/half and 24k $2 bill threads. It all really boils down to these people jsut not knowing what is legal money because they are so heavily trained to take bills and count change back, and how to take credit cards, they really don't know what to do when given change. Sadly this starts at the nation education system level. The funniest I will relate here is when I ordered a box of halves from Wells Fargo, and the lady wanted me to open it because even as the head teller, she had never seen one before. turns out it was 5 rows or 10 rolls of coins worth $500, just like a box of quarters, just not as tall and longer  |
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United States
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I sort of dread spending dollar coins, $2 bills, etc.
I just know that I'll have to explain what they are to the cashier, and it just usually ends up holding up the transaction and/or attracting attention.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I try to spend several cull IHC every week (I have many rolls), and I have had some wonderful responses at the checkout counter - "I'm sorry, we don't accept Indian or Chinese coins like this." "We only take modern coins, this looks like it came from the old west." "This must be from Canada or some other foreign place." I admit I have held up many supermarket lines, but I just love it. Edited by Coinfrog
08/16/2015 6:49 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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2 Dollar bills in my town are actually a very common occurrence now. I usually have one or two on me all the time because they regularly circulate where I live.
Why is that you ask? Well two years ago we had a large strip club move into my small (35k people) city and they bring in thousands of dollars in twos to give as change for tipping the strippers instead of making change in all ones. The result was everybody around being kind of re-educated that yeah two dollar bills are still a thing.
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Pillar of the Community
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LOL I guess that's a good way to learn about 2 dollar bills.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My wife once gave my daughter a "gold" dollar to use at school for lunch. She had to borrow money in order to eat that day because the cafeteria lady refused to take it!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Tried to spend some half dollars at a fast food drive thru. I handed them to the younger girl working the window and she flipped through them while looking bewildered. About 15 seconds later she hollers to the manager "Do we take 50c pieces?" and the manager on duty quickly replied back "Uh, yeah we do, why wouldn't we take them?". Anyway, I got my change and food and the girl still looked a bit confused when I pulled away..
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Wow! I'm really impressed by the notion of spending defunct designs--what a cool idea! But I'm even more impressed by the fact that some cashiers don't even bat an eyelash. I wonder if it's due to supreme knowledge of coins or due to supreme ignorance.
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United States
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I have spent hundreds in halves, $1 coins and $2 bills, plus hundreds more that I actually put back out at my old job to see how people would react. Most people are at least aware of the "odd"denominations and can figure out what to do with them. Probably 95% either didn't react at all, or accepted them with a strange stare or casual comment. Some of the funniest reactions: (Customer who just got a 1974 half then asked for the rest from my till): "Hey honey! That idiot cashier is giving away free silver!" (Customer who just received a Presidential dollar): "(expletive) liberals are taking over the country with their godless money!" (Cashier who just received a handful of Presidential dollars): "Um sir, we don't take car wash tokens." |
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I wonder if it's due to supreme knowledge of coins or due to supreme ignorance. or fast food cashiers that just don't care because it isn't their money to lose. I ave said it before and I will say it again, the 50 states/DC/Territories, ATG, Westward Journey, Lincoln Birthday, Pre$, etc just make too many circulating designs for people to learn, and with how people dont WANT to learn these days, who would bother? Currently this is the coins of CIRCULATING (not coins with a face value that is recognized like ASE ) designs that are legal money in the US Cent: 17 (large and small any cent from 1793~2015) Nickel: 9 (1866~2015) Dime: 6 (1796~2015) Quarter Dollar: 91 (1796~2015, 2 more this year and 5 a year through 2020 and the final ATB in 2021. 119 designs at the end of the ATBs) Half Dollar: 8 (1794~2015) Dollar: 33 (1794~2015 this does not include all NA SAC designs as they weren't directly put into circulation by the mint, not the 21st onward Pre$) that is 164 circulating coins types/designs cashiers would have to learn, adding another 50 when ATB is finished, Pre$ and NA SACs that are in circulation from collectors buying them from the mint and culling the less than perfect ones; and are still (by this site) considered "circulation strikes". |
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Posted 08/16/2015 08:01 am
