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Valued Member
United States
366 Posts |
Had a few spare dollar coins with me and decided to have some fun with them. Stopped at a glasses shop for a new glasses case and spent some of the coins. As I waited behind the counter, a fun dialogue ensued:
shopkeeper 1 (to shopkeeper 2): Do we accept these?
shopkeeper 2: Dollar coins? Yes, those are dollars.
shopkeeper 1: Really? I've never seen them before! (looks at them closely)
shopkeeper 2: My dad collects them. He has a lot of them.
shopkeeper 1: The only dollar coins I've seen are the sacagewea coins.
shopkeeper 2: a who?
shopkeeper 1: The only time I've seen these coins was in Europe
(one minute after giving them the coins, I receive my change, and walk out smiling)
I later spent some dollar coins at the post office, and the teller didn't even blink upon seeing the coins, and promptly placed them in the same pocket of the cash register as a $2 bill.
I'm sure all of you have probably had some similar fun stories, but I always get a laugh out of something like this.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
917 Posts |
I've had people think Susan B. Anthonys were Canadian, before I corrected them and pointed out "United States of America" and "One Dollar." Usually, I have had no problems spending dollar coins, although I have had a cashier or two express their displeasure over the coins as opposed to receiving paper dollars.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3692 Posts |
Maybe you could've told the shopkeepers about how they save money by not having to print banknotes every 6 months or so.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
917 Posts |
I do tell them that, say how convenient they are to use, and how the paper dollar may be retired soon.
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Moderator
 United States
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Maybe you could've told the shopkeepers about how they save money by not having to print banknotes every 6 months or so. More than twenty years of use in Canada proves that they do work, and work well.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3184 Posts |
I had a young lady cashier stare at some Sacagawea and ask if they were real and if they were actually 1 dollar LOL
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1388 Posts |
I roll search a lot of half-dollar rolls, and sometimes I have gotten held up for around 5 minutes by cashiers going to managers to make sure I wasn't handing out fake money...  I usually use 1 in every transaction just for the reactions, some of them put 50 cents in the drawer and put them in their pocket before I even leave the register... Of course, I don't hand out any silver, but I have thought about doing it a couple times just for giggles  |
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Valued Member
United States
337 Posts |
I used a half dollar at wendy's yesterday. I told my girlfriend to watch this as I handed it in
the girl said what the?
closed the window
(pretty unprofessional)
then showed her manager inside and I heard her say thats a half dollar its worth 50 cents
The girl nodded and said oh ok so its like 2 quarters
it was great
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Pillar of the Community
United States
508 Posts |
Nice to hear she is not only a star at being polite to the customer, but she also excels at math. I've never gotten any really memorable reactions from people when I use uncommon coins. The most I've gotten is them staring at the coin for 10+ seconds before realizing what it is. |
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Valued Member
 United States
366 Posts |
I also spent an Ike recently and got an older shopkeeper to say "well I'll be darn, it is a dollar!" and their friend to say "I'd have kept it if I were you". I made sure not to tell them I had more in my pocket waiting to be spent |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21786 Posts |
I had some fun with dollar notes.!
Australia replaced the dollar note with a dollar coin in 1984. Within 6 months the dollar note had completely disappeared from circulation. The dollar note is still legal tender, however.
Step forward in time to 2004. I found a cache of dollar notes when winding up the estate of an uncle, but alas, they were in such poor condition that they were not worth keeping, so I gave them to my kids to spend. Checkout chicks had no idea what they were, and refused to accept them, but older shopkeepers remembered them and kept them from the till, with much glee.
I suppose there were some stories about how an opportunity was missed to keep 'rare' banknotes, by some of those checkout chicks!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have used half dollars almost every week to buy a newspaper on Sundays, at the same store, with the same people. I just can't figure out why the same people in the same store stop, look at them, read what is on them, look at me as if I was a counterfeiter, grin and finally ring up the sale. Same people, same store, same type of coin. I'd be scarded to hand them a $2 bill or a baby sized dollar. Probably call the police.
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New Member
United States
24 Posts |
I love handing out the Ike dollars. They always have to read them and then most of them fuss about it. I leave them as my tips in restaurants as well. I just wonder how many of the servers think that they just got ripped off. My wife always complains when I give them at Mexican or Chinese restaurants, she says that they will not know it is real being most of them do not speak English very well. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1547 Posts |
I love spending odd-denomination coin, I do it all the time, just for those reactions! Yes, I'm truly sick. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
Yeah I get weird looks on passing 50 cent pieces here in Canada too. Enjoyable pass time though. "What's this?" "It's fifty cents" "Where's it from?" "Uhm, my pocket" LOL
The first time I tried to pass a few Ikes at Circus Circus when I was down there in the early 90's to get some penny rolls, I thought they were going to call security on me until the cage manager came out and laughed at the change girl... ten beaten up Ikes and I hit the 2K payout on the penny slots... hehehehe. Big gambler... spent more time looking at pennies than I did hitting the spin button.
I was a paying a toll on a New York highway and I had my trusty bag of US change with a pair of US two dollar bills, the guy was worried they were phony "We never printed no two dollar bills here". I laughed my butt off. He took my Canadian toonies though instead... (prices listed in both currencies)
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Posted 03/23/2011 5:38 pm
