Self Check Outs and Half Dollar Coins

[KalessinDB]

I just check my JFK silver dollar coin that I carry around with me. Dated 1776-1976. Darn :/
Edit: its Eisenhower

I work at a convenient store, and I've had this customer who on several occasions paid for his beer with old coins. He once purchased with 10 E.PLURIBUS. UNUM coins dated between 1921 and 1923. They feel rather heavy. Are these worth anything? If not, they sure look cool to me.

Only dime I know of from the 20s was the Mercury Dime and they didn't have E Pluribus Unum on them. Got a picture?

[CD AGES]

No they are Silver Dollar coins. He paid with 10 of em is what I meant. They have a female's face on one side and a cool looking eagle on the other side.

[KalessinDB]

Ohhhhh...

That'd be a Peace Dollar I think?



Honestly not sure if they're worth a ton, like I say I haven't actively collected coins in probably 20 years or more (pre-internet age) soooo yeah. I do agree that they're quite pretty though

[CD AGES]

Interesting. Never seen this particular coin you posted until now.
The coins I have don't look as modern as the ones in the pic you posted. The womans design is rather different. And the Eagle on mine has its wings spread out and is standing on what looks to be a branch and 3 arrows.

Sorry. I've never actually been into collecting coins. Its just that I usually get rather fascinated by US currency that I seldom stumble on.

[KalessinDB]

Hrmmm... now I'm on a hunt.

Morgan Dollar? I thought those were from the 1800's, but Wiki confirms there was a printing in 1921.

[TSTR]

I love 50 cent pieces, dollar coins, and two dollar bills, y'all.

Although I just usually use my card for everything these days.
#nocashdontrobme

[fastbilly1]

The only old currency story I have is that a couple years ago at my church in Atlanta, someone drop a double eagle in the plate one night during service.

[aaron]

when i worked at taco bell late night drive thru, someone paid me with a crown royal bag full of change. i didn't feel like counting it out and they just wanted to go so they left. when i opened it, there were three or four walking liberty dollars (pre-1910), an 1893 headdress penny, and a bunch of silver dimes and quarters.

[Hobie-wan]

We had a brief discussion about coins and things a few years ago when I found a middle eastern coin that I couldn't ID at the grocery store. I have a small collection as my parents and grandparents gave me some when I was little, then I too paid attention to the money passing through my register when working a retail job. I mostly added a bunch of wheat pennies, but occasionally someone would pay with a large coin which I would keep or the occasional silver one. I always made sure I had change in my pocket when going to work so I could swap coins out.

I have one of the 1921 silver dollar coins in question.


For my other US coins, my oldest are a 1952 half dollar, 1956 quarter, 1941 dime, 1939 nickel, and a 1883 penny. Bill wise my 2 most interesting things are a 1935 $1 silver certificate (blue serials) that I got in change as a teenage mall rat and a 1963 $5 (red serials). I also have a handful of foreign coins, mostly from places I've been to, but a few randoms that I found lying around here and a few interesting ones I picked up at a store cheap.

[laurenhiya21]

I don't have any interesting coins, but my mom has a whole bunch of random foreign ones (I think mostly Russian?).

I can't remember all the different cool coins she has but the coolest coin, which we think is a Russian Ruble, has the year 1798 on it. So crazy old. We think it could be worth a fair amount, but we have no clue haha.

The other thing that I can remember her having was a Canadian bill with a robin on it (I think it's $2?). I still remember the old bills having different birds on them, but I didn't know about the robin one until I saw that recently. (and I still kinda miss those old bills haha)