I was at the bank one time and just happen to ask the cashier, "you don't have any rolls of silver dollars in the vault do you?"
She said, "As a matter of fact, some customer turned in 260.00 worth today! Do you want them?"
I said, "I'll take them all !" and I bought every roll of them hoping that some idiot had just cashed in his grandfathers coin collection. Unfortunately, they were all Eisenhower clad dollars so I picked through them, keeping about 2 rolls of them for flippin' coins at my softball games. My wife said that I needed to turn them back in so that the money would be redeposited back into our bank acct. I told her that they were unusual and that if we give them back, they'll just send them to the federal reserve and hidden away. Instead, let's spend them rather than get cash back from our other transactions. So for the next 30 days or so, I would leave tips with them, pay the barber with them, stuff like that and everyone got a real kick out of them. I'm sure they were all hoarded away.
Eventually i made my way to McDonalds one day and I gave the little girl behind the register 7 Ikes for a $6.83 order. She looked at me kind of quizzically, ( not that I wasn't used to "that look".) and said as innocently as she could......... "Sir, I don't think we can accept these?"
"Really," I asked? "Why not?"
She said, "I've never seen these before, are they real?"
I assured her that it was fine and they were legal U.S. Currency and then she said, " I need to ask my manager if these are O.K.?"
I told her that that would be fine, go ask your manager. and she disappeared for a few minutes. She eventually returned and said, "he said that these were O.K.!"
"Good!," I told her, "thank you very much and have a great day !"
I couldn't help but laugh as I walked away from the counter. Those dollar coins were more fun then I ever imagined.
RT