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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 90072, member: 4626&quot;]As for my personal experience, I&#039;ve received quite a few SBA&#039;s and Sacagaweas as change from post office vending machines, and as change from light rail ticket machines.&nbsp; At the Sam&#039;s Club where I work as a cashier I get SBA&#039;s and Sacagaweas about 3 or 4 times a month, and the customers who gave them to me mostly got them as change from these same vending machines.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eisenhowers never circulated all that much, except around casino towns.&nbsp; In fact, they were specifically made as a replacement for silver dollars for casinos, for their slot machines and tables (as most didn&#039;t use 1 dollar chips).&nbsp; Once the SBA&#039;s came out, casinos started making 1 dollar tokens for their slot machines so they didn&#039;t have to replace them all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back when I lived in Newtown, PA about 15 years ago there was a hardware store that always seemed to have Ike dollars in the drawer.&nbsp; I traded $1 bills for them quite often.</p><p><br /></p><p>Half dollars I rarely see anymore, but when I was in Biloxi, MS I saw them a lot, because people would get them from the casinos there.&nbsp; They&#039;re used a lot for 50c slot machines and at hte blackjack tables (if you get a blackjack on a $1 bet, you get $2.50 back, and the casino uses half dollars for the 50c to avoid needed 50c chips or tokens).&nbsp; The rare times I&#039;ve got them in circulation during my many jobs as cashier were mostly from contruction workers, who seem to have them a lot for some reason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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