Festival coins

[Lady Christina de Pond]

i never tried the gold dollars at Garf but i have tipped people with half dollars my mother didn't understand why i was using half dollars

[Circa]

I'm fairly sure Colorado Medieval Festival had/has a Coin of the Realm.
Ne'er got my paws on one, m'self.

[DonaCatalina]

I wish more fairs would just sell souvenir coins that resemble period coinage. I'm afraid that most of them would come up with a cheesy looking coin that looks like something from Dave & Buster's.

[Dinobabe]

The gold dollars are legal tender and by law they have to accept them.  But I understand they can be a pain.  When we used to get stamps from the machine at the post office it only gave you gold coins as change but wouldn't accept them back!  (older machine)

[BLAKDUKE]

Tammy:

I could be wrong here but the young lady, I do not believe had the legal right to refuse the coins unless there was a sign stating such.  They are legal tender for any and all transactions.  Of course I'm going to go out on a limb here(and will most likely get impaled on my own or somebody elses petard) and state that it was in all likely hood a rather young lady who did not know of the coins.

I actually had a young lad , at GARF some years ago at one of the pubs, pick up the ones I laid down for ale and he flat out said that they were no good.  He had never heard or seen any gold dollars.   Fortunatly there was a man of some years beside him that set him straight.

I have managed to stack up a pouch of the replica Atocha shipwreck coins that I pickup in Pensacola or Mobile.  They 'clink' most convincingly, would that they could be used.

Before faire I generally go around to the local banks and get 2 to 4 rolls of the Sacejawea(sp) gold dollars to use for ale.  When I drop that pouch on the bar....   heads turn........................