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Message:: [QUOTE="W5WMW, post: 1339266, member: 25413"]Half info and experience I call halves, dollar coins, and $2s spent together as the "trifecta."  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  Recently, I found a bag several hundred Ike dollars, so I can throw that in for added fun.  I don't torture foreigners, but young US-Americans are fair game.  Most are accepted in NE Oklahoma without much thought, but some either read them or ask and take my word for it.  Granted, I live in a fairly low-crime, wealthier area, and speed is more important to them, than spending man-hours verifying the authenticity of a half-dollar. It's so weird that our currency has three denominations which are relatively disused, yet have never been discontinued.  Other than those countries that have cash of very high or very low value, we take the cake, with having only rag dollars used between $0.25 and $5.00. For those of you who have halves but don't spend them, why not?  To answer the OP's question:  That's what they're minted for, after all, like every other denomination. Personally, I withdraw rolls (about $30 per month or so) for use for spending.  I was lucky to find a 40% half in about $300 worth, but that's it.  Never found silver elsewhere in the past 2 years that I've been looking.  It's just not worth it any more, with over a generation passed since silver was discontinued. I'm also a <a href="http://www.wheresgeorge.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wheresgeorge.com" rel="nofollow">Where's George</a> user.  Two dollar bills are fun.  I recommended all forum.wheresgorge.com users to check out cointalk.com, so now I suggest the same (but vice versa). So, use those halves, dollar coins, and twos (and ask you banks for Ikes--they make great tips, as well as payment).  Save your government money buy using them.  Using $10 in halves is not a burden to the payee. Kookoox10:  Do half-dollars work in the auto change bucket at toll roads/bridge, or do you have to hand them to a person at the booth.  Same question for Ikes.  This would make a good thread, if anyone wants to post it.  I may try them, here in the capitol of turnpikes, Oklahoma.[/QUOTE]

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