Making Cashiers Speechless!

Have you ever spent Susie B's or half dollars? Post if you have and your story on this thread!

 

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It is sort of rite of passage for coin talkers. If you are really lucky, you can get arrested. Works best with $2 bills. But if that does not work for you, try cuttiing a note from a sheet. There are stories.

Funny thing is, US money looks like US money - state quarters, America the Beautiful, presidential dollars, Eisenhowers... Some people are suspicious of the unknown, like the rube from the Styx who went to the Bronx zoo and when he saw a giraffe declared "Thar ain't no sech animule!"

If you really want to push the envelope, use half cent, large cent, 2-cent, 3-cent, and 20-cent coins. Take a videographer, at least with a cellphone or something.

I have spent half dollars and Susies and never had a problem. Your mileage may vary.

 

Speechless? No. I have gotten the "duhh..." reaction more than once, though. There are an awful lot of people out there working cash registers who've never seen a half dollar, and think it must be a dollar coin.

Still not as bad, though, as the envelope full of "half dollars" at a bank that turned out to be Ikes. I bought them for their true face value, but I'm still pretty sure that the original depositor got only 50 cents apiece for them.

 

i spent a 2 dollar bill at a convience store to buy a 2 liter of soda, and the man looked at the bill for at least 90 seconds, he was looking for security fetures or something, but i kept saying to him that it was printed in 1976 and that it was real, but he was dumbfounded

and then a month ago, my mom got back a nice half dollar, and the cashier thought it was a quarter,

 

went through 30$ or so in halves the other day, at a book store and local grocer. Neither minded and figured people would like to receive them as change, mainly the youngsters or parents with youngsters.

 

Oh yes . I made one cashier swallow her bubble gum . I spent a few dollars in " Walkers " and she actually tried to bite one and swallowed the gum in doing so. True , but very very funny!!

 

Say what?

 

Every year I work at a food and refreshment stand at the county fair and usually exchange a few halves and golden dollars for paper money. Then I try to pick the right individuals to hand the coins in change to. I prefer kids about ten years old or so for the halves, hoping to spark an interest in coin collecting. They almost always have an awed look in their face, and some need to show their parents. The golden dollars I try all sorts of people. Some are almost disappointed, but usually study them for a while, and probably end up keeping them, because I never get them back.

 

I've had convenience store clerks give me SBA's as quarters, made me almost speechless, actually made money by going in there.

 

Spent a half dollar at 7-11 the other day. The cashier remarked "What is it with these 50 cent pieces, this is the third one I've seen today!"
He told me that before that day, he hadn't seen any in years. Weird how that stuff works.

 

I have never spent a SBA without it first being considered a quarter.

 

I was at a service station and bought a bottle of water (it was like a dollar and 57 cents). I paid with four walking liberties. The cashier looks at them and then stares at me for about 10 seconds (probably thought they were quarters). I said: "I gave you two U.S. dollars"; she spends the next 20 seconds in rotating and flipping the coins. Anyway, she finally said: "oh, okay".

 

I frequently spend Sacagawea, Presidential, Eisenhower, and SBA Dollars, plus Kennedy Halves and $2 bills. I have gotten some strange reactions, but most of the time, it's the same: "Wow! Where do you find something like this? At, like, a bank or something?"

 

So you paid $40 for a bottle of water? You could fill a small pool of tap water for that much.

 

Spent two of the old small face $10's on breakfast this morning. The cashier spent so long looking at them before putting them in the register that I thought for a second he was going to hand them back.

 

Those of you who spend silver and obsolete denomination coins at face value must have way too many coins and/or money. At best, you may initiate someone into the fun of coin collecting. However, chances are that the coin(s) will only be a novelty to the recipient or end up in the bank deposit only to land in a dealers hands (who is in good with the bank) at face value or be sent to the Fed bank for melting. Most people don't know the true value of older coins such as these and look upon them as only a curiosity from yesteryear.

 

It is sad that many of our younger generation are so un familiar with our very own currencies and can more readily distinguish a canadian coin by look only .

 

I'm a kid and I could easily identify a memorial from a wheat!

 

i've never spent a half dollar or dollar coin BUT i did give several presidential dollar coins as change when a customer wanted change for a five. i told her i couldn't give her all singles because we didn't have enough but i could give her coins which would serve the purpose she needed...to get on the bus. i gave her 4 quarters and 4 presidential dollars. she'd never seen them or even heard of them. i explained that they'd been around for awhile.

 

Hey its not just store clerks that don't know our money. I stopped at the bank that's inside Walmart the other day and asked the teller(young girl,early twenties) if they had any half dollars. After a couple second pause and a blank stare she said "oh, you mean the golden ones?" I would think a bank employee should know about money perhaps?