Jan
12
Notes from the Field, from Alan Millhone
January 12, 2012 |
Hello everyone
Just left my local 7-Eleven and the fellow ahead of me paid the cashier with a 2.00 bill and a clad Ike dollar coin. The cashier looked shocked and had not seen them in transactions.
I assured her both were legal tender. After she put the bill in her drawer I said aren't you going to mark it with your special pen? She retrieved it and marked it and smiled at me and said happy now?
Up till now I had not seen these coins or currency presented for payment at places I frequent.Is what I witnessed a sign of a growing economy or an isolated incident or a sign of things getting worse for many folks?
The man bought a sandwich and a drink with the coin and the bill.
Regards,
Alan
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I would suspect that these were pilfered from someone’s collection.
I always inspect the change I receive from retail establishments carefully. I’ve been finding plenty of silver dimes and quarters and loads of pre-1982 copper pennies over the past year. I was even given two buffalo nickels over the Christmas break.
Either the burgulary rate is up or people are raiding their saved up lunch money from grammer school to buy food