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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3506501, member: 99642&quot;]I work retail part-time as a way to keep busy. I&#039;m retired from the engineering world, construction and land surveying.</p><p>In fact, it was this retail job and the access to coins, that got me really started collecting. </p><p>Everyone at my work knows I collect coins. No one cares. </p><p>The managers who count down the tills will even give/trade me coins they find while counting. I have trained them to identify wheaties, Indians, silver nickels, silver dimes and quarters, and certain bills/notes such as really old ones, silver certificates, star notes, and sequential series notes, foreign coins, etc.. Anything that looks different than normal, they ask me about it first. </p><p>Every one of my coworkers I have tried to get interested in coin collecting.&nbsp; </p><p>No one cares. </p><p>I only give face value for any thing I get/buy.&nbsp; Just recently a manager pointed out they took in $40.00 in sequential $2.00 bills. I bought them all for $40.00. Though it was actually 2 separate groups of sequential notes, I was surprised to find that the larger group were all Crisp Uncirculated, and the other group was almost the same. The only people I can interest in collecting are customers. Whenever I give a customer a star note, I tell them about it and suggest they start collecting, not only notes, but coins and all. I always suggest they visit eBay to see &quot;commerce&quot; at work and I especially encourage them to visit and join <i><b>Coin Talk !!</b></i></p><p>Even though the star note I give them is usually not in the best condition, it is still useful to spark interest in collecting.</p><p>I think we all should do everything we can, everyday that we can, to encourage more people to get interested in coin collecting, and rather than being concerned about someone&#039;s integrity, or lack thereof, involved in swapping coins in a tip jar, we should be much more concerned about the morals, or lack thereof, of our politicians who swipe much, much more than <i>pocket change</i> from us each and every day that they are in office.</p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p><i><b></b></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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