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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rockford, post: 1540888, member: 39290&quot;]I stopped by the bank on Monday and grabbed 12 rolls of dollar coins. They&#039;re mixed, mainly presidential with a few Sac&#039;s and Susan B&#039;s mixed in. Also grabbed 4 rolls of half dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been spending them here and there over the past few days at various and assorted places and it blows be away the reaction to these things. Out of 15 or so transactions, more than half caused problems. I had one young girl at a fast food place flat out refuse to take them. The total was $7.40. I gave her 7 dollar coins and 1 half. She asked &quot;What do you want me to do with this?&quot; I told her the small ones are a dollar each, the the big one was 50 cents. She was like &quot;Ummm no, we don&#039;t take these, you need cash&quot; as she put them back on the counter and pushed them twords me. I then informed her that they are legal tender, and yes, you do have to accept these&quot;. She rolled her eyes and called the manager over. She holds them in her hand and says to him &quot;What are we supposed to do with ALL these stupid things??&quot; He obviously knew what they were and took them w/out a problem. </p><p><br /></p><p>This was a unique situation as far as the attitude, but a lot of other places mainly with younger people were just clueless. Some thought they were &quot;Cool gold plated quarters&quot;, some thought they were canadian coins, some thought they were real gold &quot;Dude! Is that real gold? You DO know that gold is worth like a grand right?&quot;. The biggest trouble with the half dollars is people thought they were &quot;silver dollars&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>These things are really cool and an excellent alternative to paper, but the public awareness of these are absolutely horrible which is really just a shame.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone else have any interesting stories or experiences with these? Kinda interested to know what it&#039;s like in other parts of the country.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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