A weird "found in change" moment
Paul Ciszek
the guy at the register that I would gladly take dollar coins in change
if he had any. He said he didn't have any, but offeredto get rid of a
half-dollar. It looked way too bright, so I looked at the edge, and
handed it back to him, explaining that I would feel guilty accepting
a silver coin in change.
I should have looked at the date, but it seemed pretty new. Why do I
keep encountering proof coins as change? (I have no qualms about keeping
them when a vending machine returns them as change.)
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mazorj
"Paul Ciszek" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> At a breakfast joint on saturday, I was paying the tab in cash and
> told
> the guy at the register that I would gladly take dollar coins in
> change
> if he had any. He said he didn't have any, but offeredto get rid of
> a
> half-dollar. It looked way too bright, so I looked at the edge, and
> handed it back to him, explaining that I would feel guilty accepting
> a silver coin in change.
>
> I should have looked at the date, but it seemed pretty new. Why do
> I
> keep encountering proof coins as change? (I have no qualms about
> keeping
> them when a vending machine returns them as change.)
Why should you scruple accepting coins that way? It's not like you
stole it, it was freely offered as legal tender. Either someone else
will scoop it up ASAP or it will get pounded into a lesser grade and
end up in a junk silver shoebox. The former is your loss, the latter
is a loss to the hobby. Either way, the restaurant would get no
benefit from it.
MJKolodziej
"mazorj" <maz...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Unless Paul educated the cashier as to what it was and put an intrest in The
hobby in the guy's mind.
mk
Did ya tell 'em?
Paul Ciszek
In article <gbra70$j6o$1...@registered.motzarella.org>,
I said it was silver. A waitress behind the (owner? manager?) said,
"Those are worth seven dollars." So, yeah, they were informed.