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Place: Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Number of coins: 16
Accepted: Yes

The nice thing about paying with dollar coins is that you can arrange them in a 4x4 grid for easy counting.

Groceries

Place: local grocery
Number of coins: 4
Accepted: yes

Some basic groceries, no problem here.

Kimcheese

Place: Kimchi Taco Truck
Number of coins: 10
Accepted: Yes

A simple purchase - one pork kimcheesesteak, and one order of kimchi arancini. No problems!

BAT

Place: Lincoln Tunnel
Number of Coins: 8
Accepted: Yes

No challenge for what should be an easy exchange here.

Sausage time!

Place: J Baczynsky Meat Market
Number of coins: 10
Accepted: Yes

Some sausage for a BBQ party later in the day. Nothing interesting here!

Ice Ice Italian

Place: Rocco's
Number of coins: 4 or 5
Accepted: Yes

To get a large Italian ice (with hazelnut, cremolata, and lemon - all great), I gave the nice mustaches Italian guy 5 dollar coins. In an accent impossible to reproduce with letters, he said "ooh! a golda!". Then he realized it was only 4 dollar coins for that size and gave me one back.

Pastry

Place: Veniero's
Number of coins: 2
Accepted: Yes

This is in addition to a groupon being used to purchase a birthday cake.