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Message:: [QUOTE="clembo, post: 318327, member: 8033"]I was managing the truck stop when the State Quarter program started. Heard a lot of stupid things. A lot of this was because the "main stream" media was actually mentioning them. I rembmer a guy telling me some "error" was worth like $500. Told him it was worth a quarter until sold for more. Had another guy tell me a coin was worth X amount of dollars and he ws SURE because Larry King (the radio and tv personality) said so. All I could tell him was that I'd been collecting for years, go to shops and shows and have NEVER heard anyone speak of Larry King the numismatist. One of my favorites was when I gave someone a Delaware quarter in change and he literally threw it across the room because I gave him a "Canadian" quarter. I actually retrieved that quarter so I could show him the likeness of George Washington in front of all of the other customers and make him look the fool he was. I also had a lot of truckers tell me horror stories about paying for their fuel with the "Big Head" design currency when it first came out. Seems a lot of places were refusing the "counterfeit" notes.  That could be a real problem if you just put a few hundred dollars of fuel in your tanks![/QUOTE]