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<p>[QUOTE="Coin buyer, post: 3610307, member: 102573"]I’ve purposely have paid or attempted to pay with Kennedy Halves, Ike, Presidential Dollars etc. </p><p>My experience has been as such, anyone younger then say maybe 40,ish always appears either very interested or confused in the coinage being presented? But I recently was told by a young counter person that they could not accept my foreign money to buy breath mints, lol</p><p>I’ll give accepted slack to most of the younger generation that unfortunately doesn’t seem to understand what our U.S. Mint produces for Currency and Coinage. But what floors me is the Bank Tellers I’ve encountered that (Don’t) know nor understand certain U.S. Coin/Currency?</p><p>IMHO, absolutely no excuse if employed at a financial institution one is not up to speed on all of our Coin/Currency. Maybe not entirely all the Tellers fault, as the employer should be doing their proper training also! I recently was in a Bank and asked the (young) teller if by chance they had any Ike Dollars? The first response back to me was with a look of confusion and smile, they said, well sure, I like dollars. I said okay but do you have any Ike Dollars, explaining what they were about. </p><p>It was almost funny, they said, oh I get it, it’s a rhyme game I see? I like Ike dollars.</p><p>I gave up!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Coin buyer, post: 3610307, member: 102573"]I’ve purposely have paid or attempted to pay with Kennedy Halves, Ike, Presidential Dollars etc. My experience has been as such, anyone younger then say maybe 40,ish always appears either very interested or confused in the coinage being presented? But I recently was told by a young counter person that they could not accept my foreign money to buy breath mints, lol I’ll give accepted slack to most of the younger generation that unfortunately doesn’t seem to understand what our U.S. Mint produces for Currency and Coinage. But what floors me is the Bank Tellers I’ve encountered that (Don’t) know nor understand certain U.S. Coin/Currency? IMHO, absolutely no excuse if employed at a financial institution one is not up to speed on all of our Coin/Currency. Maybe not entirely all the Tellers fault, as the employer should be doing their proper training also! I recently was in a Bank and asked the (young) teller if by chance they had any Ike Dollars? The first response back to me was with a look of confusion and smile, they said, well sure, I like dollars. I said okay but do you have any Ike Dollars, explaining what they were about. It was almost funny, they said, oh I get it, it’s a rhyme game I see? I like Ike dollars. I gave up!!![/QUOTE]
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