Anybody who has ever worked as a cashier: what is the oddest coin a customer has used?

For me, it would probably be an 1861 British half penny. The customer gave it to me in a pile of change. It's a little larger than a modern quarter, so I accepted it as a quarter and bought it for a quarter. It's in pretty lousy shape (is it possible for a coin to grade lower than a 1?) At least the date is readable. Here it is:



Other oddities include Franklin halves and a whole hoarde of silver Roosevelt dimes. I think the half penny takes the cake. What coins were presented to you at legal tender to purchase an item and did you buy that coin? Pictures would be even better.

 

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what is that worth?

 

I have no clue. Probably not very much in the shape that it is in. Does anybody who knows more about mid-19th century British coins want to chime in?

 

I have never worked as a cashier, but a cashier at McDonalds gave my grandfather a gold sovereign back in change as a PENNY! This was back in the early 90s, but still! He gave the coin to my little sister, who still has it today.

 

My friends dad found about 100 dollars in wheat cents while working at mcdonalds, and now only need 5(+-?) more to go with his collection.

 

I received a silver eagle and 3 walking liberty haves when I worked at dunkin donuts

 

I got a V-nic in change in New York City.

 

I was at the bank early last year to get some small bills for change at the flea market and I spotted a Buffalo nickel in the tellers' tray and asked to see it. It was a 1938-D in AU condition and the girl said she had wanted to take it home so I didn't buy it from her. If I said I wanted to trade a nickel for it she would have had to give it to me.

 

I haven't found that many in the 15 months I've been on my current job, but I've found several hundred. On a busy evening shift, I usually find at least one if not several. The most I found in a night was 8, all in a pile of pennies a customer paid for their gas with.

 

That was nice of you to let her keep it. I would have grudgingly done the same thing.

 

I used to find 1-3 per roll.

 

About 20 years ago I worked at a pharmacy as a cashier. Over time, I got a handful of indian head cents, and a few silver quarters and a dimes. Not much else except for bicentennial coinage, modern canadian money, and clad halves on occasion.

 

My father was rarely a cashier in his bakery. On this occasion, he just happened to be stocking fresh chocolate cupcakes in the display case. A little boy came in and bought 12 cupcakes. At that time in 1973, 12 cupcakes cost 96 cents. My father put the cupcakes in a box and the little boy paid with an 1878 Morgan Dollar. That little boy was very happy with his cupcakes and I was, at age 13, happy with a gift of a then-95-year old silver dollar.

I still have the Morgan dollar, 41 years later.