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<p>[QUOTE="Space 4 Rent, post: 773070, member: 22065"]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">I have regularly used the Presidential dollars on a consistent basis for small purchases (what else do you do with all of those rolls you sort through?) and have found that most people don't even give them a second look. It seems to me that majority of people / cashiers have absolutely no interest at all in the collectable side of the coins, just the currency side. </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Of course I did have one issue in Center City Philadelphia. I attempted to pay for parking ($7.50) with Presidential Dollars, and the attendant would not take them. There was no on site supervisor, and the cashier was obviously from an African country and English was not his first language. I finally convinced him that they were legal tender, but he insisted on taking my license plate number incase I was passing 'toy money' as he called it.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Space 4 Rent, post: 773070, member: 22065"][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I have regularly used the Presidential dollars on a consistent basis for small purchases (what else do you do with all of those rolls you sort through?) and have found that most people don't even give them a second look. It seems to me that majority of people / cashiers have absolutely no interest at all in the collectable side of the coins, just the currency side. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Of course I did have one issue in Center City Philadelphia. I attempted to pay for parking ($7.50) with Presidential Dollars, and the attendant would not take them. There was no on site supervisor, and the cashier was obviously from an African country and English was not his first language. I finally convinced him that they were legal tender, but he insisted on taking my license plate number incase I was passing 'toy money' as he called it.[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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