Stop taking your Kennedys back to the banK!

CoastGuard

Collectors, after going through your rolls and removing 40% silver, let me suggest you use those Kennedy half dollars in everyday transactions. #1. It really gets the cashier or food server interested in coins, maybe making a new collector. #2. The recipient of the Kennedy half dollar(s) really thinks you have given them something rare and special and it makes them happy. #3. You can strike up a conversation about collecting and tell them where and when the next club meeting is held or better yet, give them an application. #4. It might be the only way they will save their money!

A friend of mine makes it a habit of tipping or paying for girl scout cookies, etc. with $2.00 bills to get people's interest. If you like to make people happy and raise interest in collecting, try half dollars or two dollar bills in your everyday life.

It would be nice to see these things in circulation. I would like to write a short story about how half dollars were a common staple in commerce then just disappeared. Amazing trivia.

Russ

I use Kennedys in transactions every day - Franklins too, for that matter, and silver quarters and silver dimes. There's one particular clerk at the grocery store whose eyes light up every time she sees me at the end of her line.

Russ, NCNE

VAMs4U2BuyHere

<< <i>A friend of mine makes it a habit of tipping or paying for girl scout cookies, etc. with $2.00 bills to get people's interest. >>


Be careful with those $2 bills. A man was recently arrested at a Best Buy for paying with those. After being dragged down to the police station and held until the secret service arrived, he was released without being charged.

As expected, lawsuit pending.

XpipedreamR

I used to run a coffee shop a while back. I kept some steel and Indian cents, and Buffalo nickels in the register for "special" customers



What a nerd

Bochiman

I just got (last week) $1000 in kennedys.
Sorry, but $900 of that goes back to the (different) bank.

Of that $1000, literally $980 was all BU 2001-D kennedys

Wouldn't be too bad except I get it to go through with my son for a few missing dates (we do the same with nickels) and I had paid for the 2001 P&D bag from the Mint last year

On the "bright side", I now have paper rolls of OBW 2001-D kennedys to store for the future

ms70

<< <i>I use Kennedys in transactions every day - Franklins too, for that matter, and silver quarters and silver dimes. There's one particular clerk at the grocery store whose eyes light up every time she sees me at the end of her line.

Russ, NCNE >>



She sees that roll of Frankies in your pocket.

Bochiman

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<< <i>I use Kennedys in transactions every day - Franklins too, for that matter, and silver quarters and silver dimes. There's one particular clerk at the grocery store whose eyes light up every time she sees me at the end of her line.

Russ, NCNE >>



She sees that roll of Frankies in your pocket. >>



Franklins? That's his roll of pointed dimes

Chazpear

I use Kennedy’s pretty regularly. There are a couple of coffee shops that I stop by in the mornings and pay for my coffee with them. It is interesting to hear some of the comments I get. They range from; “I don’t have anyplace in my register for this”, to “These are cool. Where do you get them?” to “I didn’t know any of these were around anymore.” You quickly learn where to and not to spend them. I’ve never had anyone say they wouldn’t take them though. I’ve also been asked a couple of times if I have any more that I can sell them. Or they work well in the tip jars too.

DJC

I've used Kennedy's and the odd silver a lot, but you should see the look on their face when you hand over a few Ike's!!!

Seriously, pay for a few dollar purchase with a couple of Ike's, and you'll be standing there for a while explaining what they are.

Deadhorse

<< <i>I use Kennedys in transactions every day - Franklins too, for that matter, and silver quarters and silver dimes. There's one particular clerk at the grocery store whose eyes light up every time she sees me at the end of her line.

Russ, NCNE >>



You call yourself a Ferengi??

The Nagus will have you excommunicated if he learns of this blasphemy!!

hedgehog847

Seriously, pay for a few dollar purchase with a couple of Ike's, and you'll be standing there for a while explaining what they are.

Could you imagine using Ikes at Starbucks? You'd end up having to speak to the manager....who's 19.

ChangeIsGood

I would love getting arrested for using $2 bills or any other legal tender. When the dust would clear, my collection would increase greatly.

streeter

Ever since Russ took the roll of dimes out of his pocket and started using the $20 roll of Kennedys, he's been getting a lot more dates.

Barberman55

I scored some Ikes at a bank a while ago, and used them for tips at diner's, etc. By the response from the waitresses, you would think that they were getting a great tip, and a rare coin to boot.

CoastGuard

I prefer using Kennedy's because you can still get them at the bank for face value and so can anyone else. If you can't, switch banks. I also want to see the half dollar used in circulation so the U.S. Mint doesn't stop making them. Ike's are certainly more of a novelty coin but as you tell I have other motives.

KurtHorn

I do the same thing with Ike dollars...

Gurgi

You are limiting yourselves to just Ikes and Kennedys. I know of many cashiers that look BEYOND COINS. With the changes that have been made to paper money in the last decade it is rather easy to collect a small fortune in 50's and 100's for resale at a later date.