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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MetaCoin, post: 1144377, member: 26699&quot;]I&#039;d probably spend them, but have a interesting story about someone doing just that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The local coin club, of which I am Treasurer, has an annual coin show. We sell raffle tickets for silver coin drawings. This year, thinking to be clever, I got some rolls of $1 coins and packs of $2 bills to give out for change. No one complained, some even asked to &#039;buy&#039; more.</p><p><br /></p><p>One day, after the show had closed for the evening, our Club President stopped at the local McD&#039;s for supper and decided to use his $2 bills. The young cashier wouldn&#039;t take them and called the manager on duty; who suspected they were counterfeit because he also had never seen them. The Pres. told them he had just come from the coin show in town (this is a small town), and that we were working with local law enforcement for security. Still wouldn&#039;t take them. This man, the would-be customer, is also a part-time coin dealer, and head of the journalism school at a nearby University. The staff finally took them only after calling the store owner.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d seen stories like this before but never thought it would happen to someone I know, right here in the Midwest. Kind of puts a perspective on why changes in circulating currency, coins or bills, aren&#039;t always eagerly received.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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