| Author |
 Replies: 38 / Views: 5,777 |
|
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Quote:
I went to the bank yesterday looking for half dollars. The teller said she had $20 worth. When she handed them to me, they turned out to be Ikes. This is the fourth time this has happened to me. The odd thing is that when I ask for Ikes no one has them. So it must take luck to get them, or a confused teller!
What you and everyone is forgetting is younger people that work in banks haven't been around long enough to even know what a half dollar is. I love spending them just to watch the look on someone's face when they see one. Very, very few people today have never heard of a dollar coin and one that is even bigger than a quarter? NO, just can't happen. I've had conversations with people of all ages and mentioned 2 cent, 3 cent, 20 cent coins, really big dollar coins and some think I'm nuts when I say coins used to be made of Gold also. I go to breakfast a few times a week with a bunch of people. One guy, about 50, came in one day and said "Hey, look at this". He had a few Morgan silver dollars. "Is this what you were talking about?" He bought them at a pawn shop for $2 each. "Sure were expensive". Said there was a pile of them but another guy bought them all. SEE. MOST people are not coin collectors. |
|
Valued Member
United States
227 Posts |
Went into a fifth third a couple weeks ago asking for rolls of half dollars. She told me that they didn't have any but she had some of the big dollar coins. I said you mean the pres dollars. (Because I had stopped asking about Ikes years ago.) She goes no the older ones. She goes into her safe and pulls out a small envelope that had 8 Ikes in it.  Needless to say I bought them all. |
|
Moderator
 United States
189213 Posts |
I really need to go into my credit union sometime and ask about their Ike hoard!  |
|
Pillar of the Community
Australia
1040 Posts |
Quote:
What you and everyone is forgetting is younger people that work in banks haven't been around long enough to even know what a half dollar is Aren't 1/2 dollars part of your circulating coinage?  |
|
Valued Member
United States
76 Posts |
Sean,
Half dollars don't circulate in common change. The US mint no longer releases them into circulation. There are some interesting threads in this forum about half dollars and silver hunting, though.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
After the 2001 D Kennedy half is when we no longer had them "circulating".....  |
|
Valued Member
United States
76 Posts |
|
|
Moderator
United States
189213 Posts |
Quote:Didn't they really stop circulating with the release of the Kennedy half dollar in 1964? Good point. One can argue that the Kennedy half never really circulated. The 1964 was first hoarded as a commemorative, then as a silver piece, keeping it from seeing a lot of action. When the Dime and Quarter went base-metal in 1965, the Half Dollar kept some silver in it; so it was probably hoarded for that reason as well. Judging by the mintage numbers in 1971, the mint must have felt there was a shortage from all this silver hoarding. However, the damage was done and the country got on without it by using two quarters instead. |
| |
Replies: 38 / Views: 5,777 |
First Page
Previous Page
Posted 08/23/2008 11:18 am
