Hey ya'll! I stopped by Circle K on my way home from work and got a fountain refill. Paid with a presidential dollar. To my amazement the clerk said, " Another one? I've gotten TONS of these!" I think the new dollars are poorly, cheaply made but I've wanted this to catch on for a long time. Maybe its a sign people are actually USING these. :hatch:
sure, but is the clerk giving any in change? It is one thing to accept them but will anyone take them instead of a $1 bill?
Yup, I'm also in Indiana about 30 miles from Chicago, IL and have yet to see one. I'm good with that.
I'd take them as change. Money is money. Although, if they tried to unload more than ten at a time to me, they had better provide me with a bank bag because I don't want to walk around with my pants falling down. Guy~
Okay, excellent point. My one track mind wasn't thinking about the "giving them back in change" part.
A strange phenomenon, where someone walks into a shop and pays with a COIN and get a funny look or a strange reaction for doing so! I really can't get my head around it, we even have £2 coins now, worth 4 x as much.........
I've paid for things with the Prez dollars using 5 or less of them at a time at the local convenience store but, I too, will certainly not carry around a roll in my pocket just for the sake of circulating them. The only one I ever recieved in change was from a member of our local coin club, I bought a few coins from him Thursday evening and he gave me a Washington Prez dollar back.
Sounds more like the clerk was trying to tell you what you can do with those things. I've already been told that when I tried using them.
I'd take them in change, and have fun respending them. And who cares what the clerk thinks. I know it wouldn't be fun to get too many of them back in change. When I get rolls to search, I usually throw them in my pocket, and have to hold my pants up all the way to my car.
NumisMatty, I can imagine that is strange to you. Other countries have pulled off the larger denomination coins seemingly without a hitch. Personally I have no use for anything larger than a quarter in my pocket and have made it well known that i have absolutely no use for a dollar coin when I can fold up a piece of paper and use that in it's stead. This makes me wonder if maybe the U.S. is going about this all in the wrong way. When the mint comes out with a new coin they hype the hell out of it to generate interest. It works with collectors but, on the other hand, works with non-collectors as well. What you end up with is a bunch of people who basically know nothing about coins hoarding coins that retain a whopping face value. This is all hypothetical of course but my brain just jumped on to this track. If this were indeed the case the U.S. mint should just make a coin, plain as hell that basically reads ONE DOLLAR. No historical figures, no recurrent themes, no history - just a coin worth a buck. People might actually use those. I still wouldn't most likely but it's an idea.
You and gopher29 must be in northern Indiana. I lived in Louisville until two years ago, and there were Circle K's in southern Indiana - even as far north as Bloomington, where my uncle lives.
I have spent several rolls worth of dollars, have probably reveived close to a roll in them back ( even some sacs) As it was said before, a dollar is a dollar. have two or even 5 dollar coins makes no difference to me as having the same amount of bills. Only difference is I dont have to sit on the coins fold up enough $1 in a trifold wallet zand it can bulk up pretty fast. Plus i usuallyhave a handful of change in one pocket or another lol
I spent one at Bk the other day. Clerk did a little double take but said nothing. I'd be glad to get them back in change. So much easier to put in my pocket than stuffing paper in my wallet. They weigh less than my cellphone and keys plus I wear a belt so my pants stay put.
