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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1947727, member: 27832&quot;]Three or four years ago a bank teller showed me an 1836 half that a convenience-store owner had brought in from his till.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t imagine that any cashier would willingly accept odd denominations or sizes -- half-cents, large cents, 2c, 3c, half-dimes. They might or might not take a 20c piece as a quarter. Most likely they&#039;d reject it as &quot;foreign&quot;. These days, such coins are most likely to turn up in the reject bin of a CoinStar machine, I guess, not that I&#039;ve found any of them yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gold is a separate issue. I&#039;ve seen stories here of modern 1/10-oz Eagles showing up in dime bins, but it&#039;s hard to imagine there are very many people who wouldn&#039;t recognize a gold coin as something special.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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