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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 773104, member: 57463&quot;]<b>&quot;Change you can believe in&quot; ...&nbsp; what&#039;s up with that?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Results vary.&nbsp; My former local coin club regularly hangs out at the same restaurant and when that started, the odd coins were interesting, but after ten years of it, the waitresses just stopped ogling at No-Date Buffalo Nickels.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do get rolls of Presidential Dollars and Half Dollars and spend them around town for coffee, etc.&nbsp; In Ann Arbor, it&#039;s not much of a problem.&nbsp; Sometimes young people have to call a supervisor.&nbsp; Mostly, though, I think that US money looks America and anyone literate in one medium can pretty much read another.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes on a coin board like this you see the other problem.&nbsp; &quot;What is this coin?&quot; and its from China or India and they post the image upside down.&nbsp; Writing leads the eye.&nbsp; It&#039;s a rule going back to cuneiform, and probably back to cave paintings and woven patterns in fabric.&nbsp; But if the coin does not have a Man Looking Rigth with an Eagle on the Back, they can&#039;t tell up from down or right from left.&nbsp; It is a form of illiteracy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have some holed coins,&nbsp; A couple are European silvers that are holed at right angles to the images.&nbsp; So, whoever used the coin for decoration did not perceive the figure-ground presentation.&nbsp; They did not see the images as images.</p><p><br /></p><p>Literacy has to be learned.&nbsp; Retail sales clerks handle enough currency that after a few weeks on the job, they have seen most of it.&nbsp; Then we come along ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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