What Do You Mean Are These Real?

I too regularly spend halves and dollar coins...usually at Dunkin Donuts. Like the rest of you the looks I get are sometimes priceless!

Some years ago I started to use Half Dollars to get in to a flea market. At first I was looked at as if I was a criminal. Now the people at the gate wait for me to pull one out and if there are more than one there, they fight over it as if it were Gold.
As to those baby sized dollars. I will never use one again.
At a local restaurant I left several for a tip. As we walked away from the table the waitress said rather loudly "Sir, you left some of your kids play money on the table"
After that, never again with those things.

What did you do carl?

I went to a family dollar today on the way fishing. bought a bottled water and a bag of chips. Handed the guy 5 half dollars. He said how much are these worth. I smiled and said 50 cent. Crossed the street and handed a guy a 5 dollar bill and two50 cent pieces at a bait shop and he paused for 5 seconds and I said they are 50 cent pieces. AHHh the fun!

I find absolutely amazing that so many people do not know what their own countries money looks like. This is fascinating.

I guess it will get worse as countries put more and more designs on currently circulating coins.

For this very reason I doubt they will change the design of the obverse of the quarter. No one will know what it is any more!

I had a cashier in a computer store call his manager to verify my Presidential dollar. That's actually the only time I've had a 'problem' spending a Presidential, even the teenage cashiers at McDonald's take them with no drama.

The age of the cashier does factor into their acceptance of 'odd denominations'. If the cashier is over 40, they'll take your JFK's, Ike's and $2 bills without any fuss, just like they take any other money (but they might buy them out of their drawer after you leave!).