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I actually received an SBA in change yesterday!
Went to a local coffee purveyor, bought a fancy cuppa joe for $3.55.
Gave the clerk a $10 bill -- received a $5, an SBA, a quarter and 2 dimes in change.
First time I've received a dollar coin in change since 1979 (other than from a post office vending machine). And I think that time the clerk giving it me mistook it for a quarter.
Gave the clerk a $10 bill -- received a $5, an SBA, a quarter and 2 dimes in change.
First time I've received a dollar coin in change since 1979 (other than from a post office vending machine). And I think that time the clerk giving it me mistook it for a quarter.
Me at the Springfield coin show:

60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!

60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
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i'm still trying to digest the price of a cup of coffee!!!
<< <i>Did you look to see if it was a wide rim? >>
I did now!
But it is not.
I'd grade it AU-55.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
<< <i>i'm still trying to digest the price of a cup of coffee!!!
Well, it was a "fancy" coffee, not yer regular cuppa joe.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
<< <i> I actually received an SBA in change yesterday! >>
My profound sympathies.
Went to a local coffee purveyor, bought a fancy cuppa joe for $3.55.
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Well, looks like we're getting back to the 1950s
when a cup of coffee was just a little cheaper
than a gallon of gas.
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<< <i>Ban the dollar bill! Ban it, I say! >>
that's the only way the dollar coins will circulate!
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<< <i>Ban the dollar bill! Ban it, I say! >>
that's the only way the dollar coins will circulate!
here anyway. the citizens of Ecuador will say otherwise.
<< <i>Somebody came from the post office stamp machine. >>
that is where i get my fix
I know many dollar coins are circulating there? Do they also use the US dollar bill? What is the ratio?
<< <i><<the citizens of Ecuador>>
I know many dollar coins are circulating there? Do they also use the US dollar bill? What is the ratio? >>
since the SBA and Sac dollars were such miserable failures here with the US public, huge bags of them were sent as foreign aid by the US government to Ecuador. Unlike here, they circulate widely down there, and have even trickled into neighboring countries. Scammers are even counterfeiting the Sacs in South America.
John
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<< <i>I got one not long ago as I used a Dollar bill for a 50c purchase... only to discover later that the cashier gave me an SBA and a Quarter change.
They definitely are easy to confuse and I distinctly remember the subject of havuing them a different color to avoid this confusion was discussed in 1978 but our geniuses in Congress wouldn't go for it!
Just like they didn't go for Gasparro's Liberty Head Dollar.
The name is LEE!