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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mnmvick, post: 676844, member: 15626&quot;]You know, you would think that with inflation, the penny needs to go away and the half needs to come back, but these golden dollars are dying on the vine.&nbsp; Personnally, I have spend thousands of dollars worth of them over the last year and a half (been buying them $250 at a time from the US Mint because my bank doesn&#039;t carry them) but NOBODY wants them.&nbsp; I talked to a store owner who summed it up best &quot;I don&#039;t want them, customers don&#039;t want them, and the banks don&#039;t want them.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Trouble is - the mint stopped making halves for general curculation a few years ago, so there probably aren&#039;t many out there right now.&nbsp; I have been going to the bank every so often and ORDERING (cause they don&#039;t keep them in stock) $500 and going through them.&nbsp; You will find a proof in every case, although I once got an entire $500 box that was entirely 1976D.&nbsp; That was really boring, let me tell you . . .</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Talking about credit/debit cards though - yes - those have come on STRONG in the last 5 years or so, but we really should get off of them as a nation.&nbsp; All they do is add a 3% tax to everything we buy and sell, which of course us consumers wind up paying for in the end, and Visa and Mastercard just scrape it right off the top.&nbsp; It is like they are a super-government, taxing us all for everything we buy!&nbsp; Hopefully banks will have to start charging more fees here soon and people will move back to cash.&nbsp; The FDIC is about to raise their rates on deposits and that will, of course, have to get passed onto us consumers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But, since our coins have no intrinsic value anymore - maybe THAT is why we use plastic all of the time.&nbsp; We know that cash is basically worthless too.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But I carry halfs with me and drop them on sales folks when necessary.&nbsp; Had a guy at Taco Bell ask me if it was a dollar the other day.&nbsp; I gave him a look of disgust and said &quot;Read the coin man - read the coin.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>*sigh*[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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