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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 131809, member: 4626"]Lol... where I work I consider myself lucky to catch people paying with SBA's or Sacagaweas, an occurence that happens maybe once or twice a month. I ever catch anyone paying with Morgans I'd buy whatever they had too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have heard of several people who have worked at convenience stores or gas stations having kids pay with silver dollars; likely cases of breaking into their parents' coin collections. My brother received a few Ike and SBA dollars, plus some silver half dollars, at a garage sale from a kid of about 10. Likely he broke into his parents' collection, but we had no idea who the kid was or who his parents were, so we couldn't return them. The 1964-D Kennedy looked very nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for adults paying with them, guess it's not impossible, though you think more often than not they'd realize what they had was worth significantly more than face value, unless they either didn't know or didn't care .However back when I had a paper route in Pennsylvania I did receive an American Silver Eagle from someone as if it were just worth face value. Not sure if he was just being generous or honestly didn't know it was worth more than a dollar. It did look like it was circulated a bit... so maybe he received it as a dollar too, lol.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 131809, member: 4626"]Lol... where I work I consider myself lucky to catch people paying with SBA's or Sacagaweas, an occurence that happens maybe once or twice a month. I ever catch anyone paying with Morgans I'd buy whatever they had too. Have heard of several people who have worked at convenience stores or gas stations having kids pay with silver dollars; likely cases of breaking into their parents' coin collections. My brother received a few Ike and SBA dollars, plus some silver half dollars, at a garage sale from a kid of about 10. Likely he broke into his parents' collection, but we had no idea who the kid was or who his parents were, so we couldn't return them. The 1964-D Kennedy looked very nice. As for adults paying with them, guess it's not impossible, though you think more often than not they'd realize what they had was worth significantly more than face value, unless they either didn't know or didn't care .However back when I had a paper route in Pennsylvania I did receive an American Silver Eagle from someone as if it were just worth face value. Not sure if he was just being generous or honestly didn't know it was worth more than a dollar. It did look like it was circulated a bit... so maybe he received it as a dollar too, lol.[/QUOTE]
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