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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3304022, member: 19463&quot;]This tale reminds me how the role of coinage has changed in the last 50 years.&nbsp; Today with so few people paying with cash of any variety the young people lack the experience we had needing not just money but a certain kind of money to make a small purchase.&nbsp; Who remembers the Automat in New York City?&nbsp; Who still uses vending machines that don&#039;t take paper or give change?</p><p><br /></p><p>Where I live there is an Aldi grocery store that requires shoppers to push a quarter in a slot on their shopping cart to free it from the rack of carts.&nbsp; The quarter is returned when the cart is put back in the stack but the checker usually switches carts at the register so you don&#039;t get the same quarter back that you put in.&nbsp; I wonder, nationwide, if there are any kids that are anxious to see what quarter comes back and help mom with cart return for that purpose.&nbsp; They are the coin collector candidates of the future.&nbsp; I fear there will soon be a generation who won&#039;t switch to ancient coins because they won&#039;t know what coins are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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