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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1083, member: 57463&quot;]Discussing the horde of wheat cents (&quot;What would you do with a....&quot;), Jess suggested spending them.&nbsp; Personally, I hang on to my wheaties and not many people -- not even kids -- look at cents any more.&nbsp; Quarters are about the bottom of the food chain for general public interest.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I have been profligate enough to buy Eisenhowers from a coin store and then spend them.&nbsp; It is a real coin guy kind of thing to do.&nbsp; No one normal does it.&nbsp; I mean, first there is the cost to you.&nbsp; But more than that, most people do not find it interesting to see a clerk struggle with an Ike, a Sackie, two Suzies, and two Kennedys for five bucks.&nbsp; Coin guys find that amusing.&nbsp; Oh, yeah, and a deuce, use them, too, of course, if you can.</p><p><br /></p><p>Leaving them as tips is also wierd coin guy behavior.&nbsp; In Howell, Michigan, the coin guys meet at the Big Boy every Monday, and they cannot wait to see if the waitress notices the stack of no-date Buffnicks.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, while it is bizarre, it is harmless.&nbsp; It is not clear that anyone elver gets &quot;interested in coin collecting&quot; this way.&nbsp; But perhaps that is not the point, even if it is the excuse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I often buy commemorative stamps for postage.&nbsp; Artists, writers, dinosaurs, I have my favorite as they come out, Bogart, Lucille Ball, you have seen them.&nbsp; But lately, I have been going for the generics (&quot;definitives&quot;) from the vending machines so that I can get dollar coins in change.&nbsp; I love to spend them.</p><p><br /></p><p>No matter what the Treasury reports, I know from traveling about that city buslines are big consumers of dollar coins.&nbsp; In town like that, the coins pass more readily without notice or comment.&nbsp; Here in Burque everyone is pretty much Sackied out, Glenna and Randy being locals and all.&nbsp; (Julia Roberts, too, actually.&nbsp; Not numismatic news, but Taos is a magnet for glitterati.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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