Do you get funny looks too?

I've been using the Prez $1 coins on a regular basis. My video rental store looks forward to my visits knowing I get them in rolls from the bank and requests them as does the small store where I buy my Sunday newspaper. I use them for tips most often, though my favorite remark came from a waiter who was picking up the table and muttered about "Gee, thanks for the chocolate".

 

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now that is funny!!!!

 

My best experience with dollar coins was just recently. I usually have a few I carry around just to spend. I was walking from the hotel my employer keeps us at when we're away, to a fast food place. There are usually a few homeless people who hang out on a corner we have to navigate around, knowing the few hundred of us who stay there on any given day will eventually pass by. And as always, they ask for change. I gave one an Adams dollar the other day, and if I could describe the look on the guys face I would. It was all I could do to keep from busting up. I couldn't tell if he was suprised or mad, or both. I'll have to start carrying more around from now on. That look was worth a dollar!
GUy~

 

He probably thought it was gold..
That was nice of you... This is terrible to say, but I hope he was really homeless, and that you made a difference

 

Not too funny of a look from the clerk while paying my electric bill with presidential dollars. She had to count them 3 times before she got the same number as I did. She had an uncertainty on her face, whether because of the amount, the authenticity or both? Then I asked her for any new sacs$ in the drawer and she gave me another look.

Also elsewhere a young teller thought I was trying to pull a fast one with some kind of funny money, had to ask the manager, like said in previous post.

 

that is funny that your mom thought a SAC dollar was a peso. I remember trying to use a presidential dollar at walmart or some store (this was a while ago, so my memory on this is kinda hazy) and the cashier asked if it was a quarter

 

I think cashiers need to be more educated about coins... How did they get a job handling money, if they can not even specify a circulating united states coin?

 

I agree,
One might think.

 

I agree, it almost makes me laugh how people who's job it is to handle money can't even properly identify a presidential dollar.

 

that's downright funny

 

It is just common sense...
We all have common sense... Wonder why they don't...

 

Actually EVERY antique shop I have been to knows enough about coins to make them grossly overpriced. Most of them at least have a redbook...

 

Well down here in Texas, most don't
I went to one place, where she had some stuff over priced, but she had some stuff really under priced! She knew nothing of coins, and she said she just priced them at what was appropriate

She was selling EF/AU Walking Liberties for $12 and she was trying to sell a 1976 Silver Proof Set for $75...

 

But it's more than common sense, imho. It's basic knowledge, and a whole lotta people (casheirs, and, apparently, many of their managers) don't even know that bronzish-dollar coins exist. If it weren't for the fact that I'm into coins, I would have thought the current dollar coins was the SBA!

 

Well I guess it could just be what we think is common sense, and what the rest of the public thinks is common sense is just too different...

 

Wee aint inta them thar reeding books down har in Texas ya no.
yup, mmm, yup. :goofer:

 

LOL!!!!

I'll be back in Fredericksburg sometime in June, hopefully I can get some good deals

-T$ THE RED RANGER FROM TEXAS

lol

 

No funny looks in Fredericksburg, they take presidential, sacs, sba, and that paper money too. Yal come now.

Ps: many books for sale, some red, yup.

 

At the Central States show last month we parked at a parking lot next to the convention center and you would give your money to the attendant. Then he would put dollar coins into the machine to get your parking slip for the day. He said it was a lot easier doing that than fighting with the machine all the time to get it to take the paper money.

 

yeah I can remember a couple years ago spending some SBA dollars from a roll, the woman look up to god like she was going to have a stroke she was so mad.

But then again, I had some fun with it to, I went to KFC and tried to make change back with a 25 dollar platinum eagle, and the girl called the cops, her manager, and said "we can't take that money" so I said "I forgot, you midwestern folks are still using that worthless paper money still" and give her a five and rode off into the sunset.