Half-Dollars - Nobody Wants Them?
Obiwancanoli
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I was inspired by another post here a few days ago, and went to my local bank(s) to inquire if I might buy a few rolls of half-dollars.
At the first bank, the teller informed me she had $9 of them in her drawer, but no rolls were available, and when other tellers were asked, none had any at all.
I then went to the next bank (I have accounts at both), and after making a deposit, asked if I might purchase a few half-dollar rolls. The woman I dealt with said "We don't have any, nobody wants them, and we don't even order them... all we ever have is what comes in the door".
Wow. I was pretty surprised, though perhaps I shouldn't be... I'm going to start asking for them every time I stop in on other business, but if "nobody wants them", what are they doing with the tens of millions in circulation... uhhh... NOT in circulation.... uhhh... I'm confused
At the first bank, the teller informed me she had $9 of them in her drawer, but no rolls were available, and when other tellers were asked, none had any at all.
I then went to the next bank (I have accounts at both), and after making a deposit, asked if I might purchase a few half-dollar rolls. The woman I dealt with said "We don't have any, nobody wants them, and we don't even order them... all we ever have is what comes in the door".
Wow. I was pretty surprised, though perhaps I shouldn't be... I'm going to start asking for them every time I stop in on other business, but if "nobody wants them", what are they doing with the tens of millions in circulation... uhhh... NOT in circulation.... uhhh... I'm confused
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<< <i>This shouldn't be too surprising. After all, how many times do you receive half dollars in change? >>
I just happen to recieve a half dollar last week in my change after buying my morning cup 'O coffee at my usual place (
It was nothing special, '80s something Kennedy.
I guess cashiers might get confused because the new dollars aren't twice as big as halves. Funny that they don't get confused by dimes and nickels.
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I've gotten a few boxes of half dollars in an unsuccessful bid to find silver and spent them. What amazes me every time I get asked is
"Are these quarters?"
WHAT! Quarters circulate and cashiers see them all the time.
Does a half dollar look like a quarter?
Is it the same size?
weight?
have the same picture on it?
Sorry for the rant, move along....
Maine_Jim
<< <i>I roll search a bit so that means that I tend to also spend the halves and Ikes on a daily basis. The comments seem to be directly related to the age of the sales clerks. It is either "I haven't seen these in a while" from the older clerks or "what is this" and a look of astonishment from the younger clerks. The Ikes make great tips at your local watering hole.
Maine_Jim >>
Every woman that has brought me beverages at my hole for the past 10 years has some jar/bank full of all manner of halfs and dollars. The European girls that have kids LOVE the coin money.
One of my friends, had been my bartender longer than I've been married (wife still hates her), she told me a couple years ago that she has every half/dollar coin I've ever given her and she counted them up and it was north of $500. Not too shabby.
<< <i>but if "nobody wants them", what are they doing with the tens of millions in circulation... uhhh... NOT in circulation.... uhhh... I'm confused
These are still used by a lot of Casino's to pay on $1 blackjack bets so they do still circulate. Just not at your local businesses.
Unless, of course, they have a 21 game running in the back room!
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My colleague loves them, when I need a bill for our vending machine I give her either two Kennedy or a Prez buck.
I started working at the A&P Supermarkey chain in 1952. I still have two unc rolls of cents from that year from there to prove it. Halves seem to be everywhere, but not in quantity. We never got any rolls from the banks. We used quarters instead. I think most other stores were the same way. Halves we got from customers. The customers probably got theirs from banks. Banks had many, many of them. With the Kennedy halves came out, all halves vanishd for awhile. The banks got out of the habit of using them. They never resumed, even when they could.
In the 1950's Canadian halves were scarcer than in the USA. I could ask for rolls at a bank and they would not have any.
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well, they're carrying on a well established American Tradition, striking milions of coins which never get used dating back to the days of the Morgan Dollar and large denomination Gold Coinage.
<< <i>This shouldn't be too surprising. After all, how many times do you receive half dollars in change? >>
Only from one of my dealers I buy from. Other than that, never.
and likes to see them. Once in awhile a younger cashier has never seen them
and has to ask the manager what they are.... LOL !!!!!
i heard one say .... does it say half dollar on it ???? yeah ....read the coin
Syracuse University Carrier Dome concessions use half dollars
when i worked there this year and last a few times last year. They give out
half dollars all the time at the concessions stand i worked at. All purchases
are in cash and all items are in whole dollars or 50 cents increments. From what
i seen, no one ever gave complanied getting one. The cashiers went thru alot of rolls
of halves during the game.
<< <i>I wonder how long ago it was that the cash register drawers stopped including a section for half dollars. Even beyond that, how long ago the cash drawers stopped including sections for the one dollar coins. It should be easy to see why someone who takes in one of these odd coins wants to pass it on as soon as they can. >>
I wonder how many coin slots merchants had in the 1870's.
Let's see, cent, 3 cent nickel, 3 cent silver, nickel, half dime, dime, 20 cents, quarter, half, silver dollar, trade dollar (maybe not), gold dollar, gold 2 1/2, gold 3 dollar, Stella (nah!), gold 5 dollar, gold 10 dollar, gold 20 dollar.
Edited to add: Oh yeah, 2 cent piece!
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The banks do not have any and do not want to have any.
<< <i>The last time I spent a Kennedy the cashier asked "is this a new dollar coin"
I guess cashiers might get confused because the new dollars aren't twice as big as halves. Funny that they don't get confused by dimes and nickels.
I was cleaning out some stuff the other day and took two SBAs and put them in my pocket change to spend, telling myself "Don't forget that you have two SBAs in your pocket that aren't quarters." A couple of days later my wife and I go out to lunch. Of course I give them to the cashier as quarters. The nice lady at Cracker Barrel (who doesn't know me at all) proceeds to tell me how these aren't quarters, they just look like quarters but are actually dollar coins. I thank her, sheepishly. Embarrassing ...