I wonder if any employees in the cashier’s office were allowed to go through the coins to see if there were any worth swapping. There had to be a few coin collectors working there. When I was a teller, we couldn’t. We could exchange them with another teller, then, as a customer, get them from the other side of the window.

The first time I went to Vegas around 1993, I asked a cashier about the $1 slot machines & she said they stopped using coins in them after the end of the Eisenhower dollar coins in 1978 & switched to $1 tokens then. Can you imagine the valuable (now) $1 coins that were put into all those slots back in the 50s & early 60s!?

Happy collecting!

-NumisdudeTX

I remember that episode, but I wasn’t paying attention to the coins. It’s amazing to remember that Peace Dollars actually circulated like that.

There is an original b&w episode of the tv show “The Twilight Zone” where the man gets addicted to playing one specific $1 slot machine in a casino & you can actually see him putting Peace silver dollars in it & there is a see-through glass area on the front of the slot machine where you can see multiple Peace silver dollars in it. It is a good episode for anyone with a gambling problem to watch for sure.

-NumisdudeTX

About 20 years ago, when I was a bank teller, and there weren’t casinos within an hour or less of virtually every major city, some people would come in and get rolls of dollars or halves to take to Atlantic City to play the slots. Now, you don’t need to drive very far, and you don’t need any cash at all.

-NumisdudeTX

Actually, most casinos use electronic cards now. No cash involved.

LOL! That is too damn funny – everyone gamble your new ATB quarters away in the casino, including the kids in attendance who get a free one from the Mint!

Good luck gambling kids!

-NumisdudeTX