A while back the young lady that helps me asked if I would mind a golden dollar in my change. She was surprised when I got excited about it. She said most folks shun them. So I told her anytime she gets funny money to set it aside and I would buy it from her….. And that is exactly what she does…. It tickles me that to her a bicentennial quarter is funny money. Ahhh to be young again.
Just don’t pass her an Ike Dollar or a Kennedy half. And a two dollar bill might get you a trip to the police station. Lol
The girls in the concession stand at the golf course like the dollar coins I pass out as tips. They ask a lot of questions about them. What old collector wouldn't be OK with that?
I had a student a few years ago tell me another student had got a counterfeit quarter at the lunchroom. I asked how he knew it was counterfeit. He said the color was wrong. Later the student with the coin brought it by for me to see. It would have been an uncirculated 1964 if he had not tried so hard with a pin to scrape all the white off the obverse. Sad. Sometimes students had some interesting coins, like this proof quarter a student gave me, one of three or four he had got in change. (Excuse the terrible pics)
I remember a story told at our coin club meeting of a guy that was inline behind a kid at the grocery store. The kid was buying candy with Benjamin and walking liberty half dollars. The young clerk said that money isn't any good, it's too old the guy behind him told the kid he would give him a GOOD Quarter for each half dollar. The kid handed over all his half's and the guy paid the bill for the kids candy. Everyone was happy the guy behind them told the guy that he should be ashamed of himself The guy made no apologies for the younger generation not being smart enough to know better.
So far I've gotten all of my S Mint proof quarters from the local self-serve car wash quarter change machine. The three I got include the Bicentennial in my avatar and a 1984.
