why don't they do this anymore?

stop by my farmers market booth in Palm Desert, Big Bear Lake, or Redlands to buy some of the dates we grow. If you have $0.50 change coming, you will get a fifty cent piece. It will be a 1971-2001 clad. It will also be a nice clean one, no rolling machine marks, counter punches, bent, damaged, CRH marks, grunge, gunk, or goo. A nice, lightly circulated Kennedy half dollar. In an average week I give out $80 worth in change. Most folks think they are pretty cool. I do have one customer who asks for quarters. She wants them for the laundry machine.

 

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A chicken or the egg question: Did vending machines help kill half dollars, or did the lack of use of half dollars lead to vending machines that didn't take them?