So, who wants to hear a weird coin story?

So today, I went to the market, and as the cashier was cashing me out, I noticed two Kennedy halves in her till. I asked her if I could get the halves as part of my change.

Cashier: "Halves? Those are dollar coins!"
Me: "No, those are Half Dollars....50 cents each."

After abit of discussion later with the manager, I got a 1964 Kennedy with a huge copper/silver gash across his neck, and a 2001 D.

 

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What is a copper/silver gash?

 

I am curious also.

 

a yellow and white scratch

 

On a 64 half? That is all silver.

 

Figured the dollar/50 cent story would be a laugh....here's the pic:

 

Well I thought it was funny. And here's what happened to me:
I went to the store to buy a pack of cigs with a pocket full of kennedys. The lady cashier looked at the coins and asked if they were dollars or halfs. I told her to read the back side where it says half dollar. Then I asked her if she ever saw half dollars before. She says yes but it was a while ago. She then counted out 7 kennedy halfs and rang it up as $5.

 

We need a close up, but that COULD (don't get excited yet) be a large lamination.

 

I agree with Frank here. Please get us a close up shot of that area.

 

sure looks like a lamination to me

 

Nice find - I would have given her the $1 just to save me the trouble of trying to educate her and her manager and the next time you went shopping there could pay in halves :rolling:...

 

The original scan. Best I can do.

 

Very hard to tell could be a scrape .....
most likely.
Still, strange.

 

the opposite happened to me today!

I gave the cashier 3 dollar bills, 2 presidential dollars, and 1 susan b. anthony dollar (I know, Im bad)

and she said "ok, 5.50"
so I said "no thats a dollar coin"

lol.

 

At Wendy's today I paid with 4 $1 bills and one SBA. When I handed the SBA to the cashier I told her "That's a dollar". She looked at it, dropped in the tray and handed me my change - no questions asked.

Educating the public one cashier at a time.

 

What's depressing is when you have to educate the cashier at the bank!!!

 

when was this!?

 

i wonder if the cashier accepted those half dollars as a dollar from another customer? pretty cool find though!:kewl: didn't even have ti go to the bank or search rolls!

 

I always have to carry an example of an Eisenhower for when I ask for them (but that's a little understandable for younger tellers who have never seen them before).

There are occasions when I had to pull out an example of a half dollar because the teller thinks I'm asking for the presidential dollars. Even then, there has been at least two times where the teller first looked at the half dollar and started talking about the susan b anthony dollar (that's really confusing at first because you don't know that's what they are thinking of).

 

I concur.