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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RomaniGypsy, post: 7950885, member: 49234&quot;]Especially halves. Literally who spends them, and on what? It seems that without halves being spent, then all they&#039;re doing is being shuttled from coin roll hunter to coin roll hunter, and the most any of us can hope for is someone interrupting that cycle by doing a collection dump.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dollar coins - I&#039;ve seen them used in precisely one place, the automatic car wash. Put in a $20 bill for a $10 car wash, get ten dollar coins in change. Dollar coins must have more uses than halves, because they actually minted dollars for general circulation more recently than halves, but then what about Eisenhower dollars? Who spends them? I go to my banks and the tellers always say that anytime they get Eisenhowers, people snap them up. Well, they ain&#039;t snappin&#039; &#039;em up to spend &#039;em, that&#039;s for sure!</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to think, because someone said this, that Eisenhowers and halves were popular at casinos for slot machines. But then recently someone told me that slot machines have gone all digital. I don&#039;t gamble, but apparently it&#039;s a thing where you insert cash into a machine and it spits out a glorified debit card, loaded with that amount of money, and you use that card in the machines. When you&#039;re done playing, you take the card back to the machine and it spits back the cash that equals the number stored in the card&#039;s memory or whatever it is. So it&#039;s not like you&#039;re putting coins into a machine and when you hit a big prize, it sounds like you&#039;re being circled by Santa&#039;s sleigh as the coins come cascading out.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like dollars and halves - dollars especially tend to yield some cool stuff even if it isn&#039;t worth much (circulated proofs, SBA wide rims, NIFCs) - but I really do wonder about whether every roll of halves I get has been mostly picked through because nobody spends these things anymore. Even at the stores, if you get 75 cents in change, you get three quarters. You certainly don&#039;t get a half and a quarter. Coin-accepting vending devices have slots no bigger than a quarter. The half seems to have been forgotten, in spite of its long and rich history. Anyone have any light they can shed on this?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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