Dollar coins at toll plazas

[tschaan]

Will the automated toll machines take 1 dollar coins. My in laws give them to my son for every holiday and I buy them from him for Lego money and I never use them in stores. Any ideas what I can use them for?

 

[danielocha30]

Dollar coins are accepted anywhere, the automated machine should accept them, but I would have a backup of quarters just in case

 

[joelkfla]

From http://www.floridasturnpike.com/travelerInfo.html:

Toll collection baskets do not make change and drivers should not attempt to insert paper currency in the machinery. Quarters are preferred, but coin baskets accept any combination of nickels, dimes and quarters.

Nothing stated about dollar coins., so I would avoid them.

 

[bumbershoot]

Any ideas what I can use them for?

Turn them in at the bank for quarters and use those.

 

[nacho113]

Will the automated toll machines take 1 dollar coins. My in laws give them to my son for every holiday and I buy them from him for Lego money and I never use them in stores. Any ideas what I can use them for?

The cashiers at the toll booths will take them but the drop bins do not (as of our last trip in January anyway)

We've never seen the US dollar coins to be well accepted anywhere.
Cashiers don't seem to know what they are most of the time.
Vending machines will have credit card slots, bill slots, coin slots but don't accept dollar coins.

 

[joelkfla]

Part of the trouble is the govt can't make up its mind. There've been at least 3 different sizes, shapes, and colors of dollar coins that they've pushed out over the last 30 years or so, plus the old "silver dollars."

When they released the 90's version, they passed a law saying all vending machines had to be modified to accept them, but I think that's been sunsetted. Somebody gave me one of the newest version a month ago, and I honestly thought they had slipped me a game room token until I looked at it under a magnifying glass.

 

[jsilvers]

When they released the 90's version, they passed a law saying all vending machines had to be modified to accept them, but I think that's been sunsetted.

Actually, that would be 31 U.S.C. 5112(p) - as I understand it, enacted in the mid-2000s and still in effect, but it only applies to vending machines at U.S. government facilities and certain facilities funded with federal dollars (e.g., mass transit). See https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOD...tle31-subtitleIV-chap51-subchapII-sec5112.pdf.

 

[Summer2018]

This is nuts. My daughter bought train tickets to NYC using a kiosk and got back some of these dollar gold coins. She freaked out not knowing what they were. I thought they might be some sort of token. It appears they are real money. Now we have to unload them. Ridiculous.

 

[mom2rtk]

This is nuts. My daughter bought train tickets to NYC using a kiosk and got back some of these dollar gold coins. She freaked out not knowing what they were. I thought they might be some sort of token. It appears they are real money. Now we have to unload them. Ridiculous.

Anywhere that takes cash should take them. Or she can trade them in at the bank. It's not really anything to worry about.