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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 1239849, member: 15062&quot;]I think nomenclature is the key.&nbsp; Just refer to the coins by their common names rather than trying to dazzle them with numismatic jargon.&nbsp; Ask for pennies/one cent coins (your choice), nickles, dimes, quarters, half dollar coins and large dollar coins, small &quot;silver&quot; dollar coins or &quot;gold&quot; dollar coins.&nbsp; You may think that a bank teller should know everything there is to know about monies but the truth is that they mostly are being paid minimum wage and receive little training.&nbsp; The last Ikes were minted&nbsp; 33 years ago and relatively few were used in everyday circulation.&nbsp; The average teller was born after that date and has probably never seen one.&nbsp; Kennedy halves have been out of general circulation for nearly ten years, longer than the tenure of many tellers.&nbsp; Just because you know everything there is to know about coins doesn&#039;t mean that even people who work in the money industry know as much, or even as much as you think should be minimum knowledge.&nbsp; Everybody drives a car but I know from many years experience with others that there are many, many people who don&#039;t know anything about how a car works, except that you put a key in and it starts, you press one pedal to go faster and another to slow down.&nbsp; Intimate association with something doesn&#039;t mean that you need to know all the details about it.&nbsp; Bank tellers need basic arithmetic skills and little else.&nbsp; And serving the whims of numismatists is NOT one of their job duties.&nbsp; Finally, banks are not branches of the US Mint, they are private commercial businesses and they have no more reason to be monitarily savvy than your local McDonalds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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