Tuck Redux

Place: The Tuck Shop
Number of coins: 2
Accepted: Yes

On this visit to the Tuck Shop, it was a different guy working there than last time. The total was $12. I had a $20 bill and my usual array of coins. I asked "would it make your life easier if I threw in two of these coins, for a total of $22, and you just give me back a $10 bill?". "Yeah, actually, it would!" .. and so it was.

Place: Xi'an Famous Foods (St Marks)
Number of coins: 8
Accepted: Yes, gladly

The usual guy wasn't there, but the cashier on duty liked the shiny coins.

Ice Cream

Place: Max & Mina's Ice Cream
Number of coins: 17
Accepted: Yes

No hassle and a bit of amusement paying for two pints with dollar coins here!

Best Batch Yes

Place: Bowery Poetry Club
Number of coins: 10
Accepted: Yes

No problems paying for my ticket to the Best Batch Yet tribute to Captain Beefheart with dollar coins.

Ray's

Place: Ray's Candy Store
Number of coins: 3, 8
Accepted: Yes

Two temporally close visits to Ray's, one for some pistachio soft serve, and one for an egg cream and belgian fries (with ancho chipotle sauce) involved an uneventful exchange of foods for gilded coins.

Baked Goods

Place: Bird Bath Bakery
Number of coins: 8
Accepted: Yes

The cashier said she liked the dollar coins, and made me promise to bring different kinds next time...!

Pig pig pig

Place: This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef
Number of coins: 14
Accepted: Yes

The cashier guy actually asked "where do you get these?" I explained this experiment. He then added "you can get them from the NJ Transit vending machines too". Yup!