I recall years ago I was working the front desk of a hotel, and the girl working the lounge came up to me with all of these "weird" coins and a customer wanted to use them to buy beer(s). I told her what the face value of them was, and that I would cash them out for her as to not to screw up her til with things like 50¢ pieces.
She came back and said that the guy claimed they were worth a lot more than face value, and I told her to tell him that we were not a coin collector shop, and if he wanted to get more than face value for them he should go to a coin dealer. To my surprise she gave me the coins to change out for her.
We were right beside a police station, so after work I went in and told them what happened; just in case anybody filed a complaint about missing/stolen coins. I never heard anything about it. I suppose I should see how much those suckers are worth now.
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