I urge everybody to go to their banks and ask for a role of half dollars to spend in stores so that JFK will be seen and remembered. They really don't teach history anymore like when I went to school and it's a shame that kids don't know a lot about Kennedy or for that matter any other past president. I've done it and gotten: "What is this? It's nice." or "Is this a dollar?"
Neat idea! However, stores do not want cash anymore. They cannot ask you 50 questions to input into their system to bug you with e-mails and junk mail about their spectacular sales most people care less about. Example, yesterday went shopping with the wife for a new dress. I tried to pay cash. They could not give the correct change, none in the register. Excuse: no one uses cash anymore. 20 questions later, they took a personal check, but really wanted a credit card.
"Remember that guy who kept coming in and trying to spend those weird coins that don't even have a slot in the cash register? They won't go into the self-checkout machines, either. Apparently the CoinStar takes them."
Debt is dumb, cash is king!!! I do love it, though, when they have a hard time figuring out what the Kennedy is, even though it says "half dollar" right on it, lol. But, there is a Burger King in East Boston, where one of the guys is happy to get them, as he collects them. Maybe I'll throw him a bone and pay with a 40%er, to keep him interested, as well as make his day.
The JFK half dollar is way too big for a circulation coin. Sure, the size could be reduced, but then we know that the quarter is the highest actually circulating denomination in the US anyway. So why bother? Christian
How many people do you think watched the History Channel (?) series called "The Presidents"? They're probably too busy watching the stupid comedy shows because that's all they can relate to. Chris
Cash is King around here, But the halves are normally in the bank vault. I was told people ask for them for kids at Christmas time or other kids group events.
The only people that would get any education from this experiment at all would be the cashier's as I could almost guarantee you that the coins would NOT be given back as change to the next customer unless that customer got a peek in the cash drawer and specifically asked for the coin. Other than that, the coin would go straight back to the bank where it would get accumulated until enough were gathered so they could ship them back to the Feds. The only REAL customers for Kennedy Half Dollars any more are the casino's that pay 1.5 to 1 on a blackjack. Provided they don't have some type of "in house" token that they use.
