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« on: May 18, 2025, 06:02:29 AM » |
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Change I got back from my last transaction at the store. A 1948 nickel, a 1983 quarter, and a 1966 quarter, the second year of cladding. Do any of y'all look at your change?
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LadyDraco
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« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2025, 07:02:37 AM » |
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I did all the time when I ran the ScooterDog cart.. I did get a silver dime once and a 1960 quarter.. I still have them... Now I hardly get change from stores.  |
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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2025, 07:38:32 AM » |
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I mostly pay with a card. Though every so often I do pay with paper or coin. Probably less than 5% of the time.
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2025, 11:08:19 AM » |
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If and when I get change (it's rare these days, usually at a liquor store since using cash is cheaper) I put the change in a "location" where I store the change. Once a year (depending on amount) I take the change and put it those "paper" rolls and take it to the bank to exchange for cash.
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2025, 01:13:32 PM » |
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If and when I get change (it's rare these days, usually at a liquor store since using cash is cheaper) I put the change in a "location" where I store the change. Once a year (depending on amount) I take the change and put it those "paper" rolls and take it to the bank to exchange for cash.
I do the same thing Bill. Except my credit union has a high speed change counter that's fun to watch. They just dump it in and lickety split it says how much it is, and it gets deposited to checking. I keep an old fashioned wooden box and all change gets dumped in; when it's full, off to the credit union. |
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« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2025, 01:39:56 PM » |
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But if ya do that ! You are not really checking the coins !
Hell even wheat pennies can be missed ...
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« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2025, 03:34:47 PM » |
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A few years ago I heard a different sound from the change I got back from the cashier. Found two pre 64 dimes and a quarter. I asked her to look at the rest of the coins in the drawer as I was the only on in line. She found three more dimes. Wish I had gotten there earlier. Guessing some kid found the parents rolls and cashed them in at the convenience store.
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« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2025, 02:52:09 PM » |
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What flsix said. My Dad ran a grocery store and a kid actually did that, found the old coins and took them to the store for candy. Dad recognized the kid and got the coins back to the family but I bet the kid couldn't sit for a few days. That was back when you could spank um.
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« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2025, 04:06:07 PM » |
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Always look at my change just in case something sneaks in. I can’t tell how many wheat back pennies I have and the Mercury dimes and silver dimes I collected throughout the years. Still looking for that elusive 1944 copper penny.
I use to like getting pennies and seeing the different mint designation.
I once had a Silver Certificate $5.00 bill.
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« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2025, 05:31:37 AM » |
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Always look at my change just in case something sneaks in. I can’t tell how many wheat back pennies I have and the Mercury dimes and silver dimes I collected throughout the years. Still looking for that elusive 1944 copper penny.
I use to like getting pennies and seeing the different mint designation.
I once had a Silver Certificate $5.00 bill.
Ha, wheat pennies and the elusive 44  Back in the 70's while working in a retail cash register, when ever I opened a roll of pennies I would confiscate the "wheaties". I got probably $50.00 in wheat pennies and I've gone through some looking for the "44". No luck yet, and I've kinda slowed down cause I need a magnifying glass and that just reminds me of getting old. |
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« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2025, 05:51:32 AM » |
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I have a small collection of old US coins. And a bunch of European coins from my time in service. I haven't taken them out and looked at them in years. My grandfather (gone long ago) was a big coin collector and kept great jars of them under his bed. Grandma was always telling him to put them in a bank safety deposit box, but he said that was what his shotgun was for. In my childhood, I would sit on the floor at his feet, dump out a jar, and make stacks of them by date. When he saw a few tall stacks, he would reach down and give me a few off those stacks. So my small collection has 2s and 3s of the same dates on Indian head pennies, Buffalo nickels, and some others. The things you remember.  What I wish I had was 20 pounds of old US gold pieces. |
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« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2025, 10:54:04 AM » |
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I mostly pay with a card. Though every so often I do pay with paper or coin. Probably less than 5% of the time.
It's funny, 5%. Is what businesses charge for using that card. I almost always use cash. Especially when buying books
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« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2025, 11:29:07 AM » |
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I seldom exchange with cash these days but when I do I check the coins. I'm not a real coin collector but I have a few pennies from the 1940s and I do have a 1908 Indian head penny.
At one time in my younger years a had a WW II tin penny but I don't know what happened to it. I guess that's why they are so rare.
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« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2025, 01:19:07 PM » |
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Always look at my change just in case something sneaks in. I can’t tell how many wheat back pennies I have and the Mercury dimes and silver dimes I collected throughout the years. Still looking for that elusive 1944 copper penny.
I use to like getting pennies and seeing the different mint designation.
I once had a Silver Certificate $5.00 bill.
do you mean a 1943 copper instead of a 44? |
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« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2025, 04:53:21 PM » |
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I should get into coin collecting... ...the change would do me good...  I use a card for almost everything now. It used to be the exception was gun shows and Ren Faires, but even the local Renaissance festival is going (mostly) cashless now... |
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« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2025, 04:50:15 AM » |
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Always look at my change just in case something sneaks in. I can’t tell how many wheat back pennies I have and the Mercury dimes and silver dimes I collected throughout the years. Still looking for that elusive 1944 copper penny.
I use to like getting pennies and seeing the different mint designation.
I once had a Silver Certificate $5.00 bill.
do you mean a 1943 copper instead of a 44? There was one year (1943) during WW2 when copper was scarce so the USMint stamped pennies out of steel. In 1944 copper was available again so pennies were made from it. The mint in Denver, I believe, used some of the 1943 steel pennies in 1944, creating one of the rarest pennies. |
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« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2025, 06:21:50 AM » |
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I realize this takes the fun out of it, but if one is so inclined, it appears you can get 100 1943 steel wheat pennies for $23.99 https://www.ebay.com/itm/387541676608 (That was just the first result, "steel 1943 penny" turned up multiple options) (Half tempted to get a 100 pack and spend 'em around Inzane to see if anyone finds one... Heh... But now that I mentioned it, probably not.) |
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« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2025, 08:38:20 AM » |
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Oh! And speaking of pennies: "The government made its last order of penny blanks earlier this month, a spokesperson for the Treasury Department confirmed to BI. The US Mint will keep manufacturing the one-cent coins until it runs out of blanks, they said, meaning the penny will gradually fall out of circulation." https://www.businessinsider.com/treasury-stop-making-pennies-doge-2025-5 |
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« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2025, 08:54:28 AM » |
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Just saw the same basic thing on news ticker on Newsmax.
'Treasury ending penny production by early 2026."
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« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2025, 08:59:24 AM » |
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Had I known then what I now know! Well in 1958 I wuz 13 and still wet behind the ears! I had a paper route and collected every Saturday. Mercury dimes were Still in everyday circulation as were all silver quarters half dollars and now and then silver dollars! As I stated-HAD I KNOWN!  And I Really Do NOT wanna know how much more I let literally slip through my fingers! RIDE SAFE. |
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« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2025, 09:34:12 AM » |
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Always look at my change just in case something sneaks in. I can’t tell how many wheat back pennies I have and the Mercury dimes and silver dimes I collected throughout the years. Still looking for that elusive 1944 copper penny.
I use to like getting pennies and seeing the different mint designation.
I once had a Silver Certificate $5.00 bill.
do you mean a 1943 copper instead of a 44? Yup!  |
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« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2025, 10:30:45 AM » |
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I always look at my coins. Have several containers full of coins around the house some still usable some need to be trashed that were found metal detecting. Copper pennies last forever in the ground but the zinc pennies rot and become unusable. Silver quarters and dimes usually come out of the ground in good condition, even the 30% silver half dollar I found is in good condition.
I never knew there were so many coin denominations we once had that are no longer made.
Like the Large cent, Half cent, two cent, Trime, Half dime and many more. I've never found any of these but it sure would make my day if I did.
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« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2025, 04:15:36 AM » |
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Mr. Hawkins at the Esso station used to pop open the register drawer and let
me root around in the change for old coins... I was 10 or less...
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« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2025, 05:33:49 AM » |
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My stepdad gave a large old school leather gym bag full of all types of coins and partially filled coin sleeves. I think he gave them to me because he didn't know what else to do with them. I really don't either, but I looked through them and didn't really see any major stand outs. Not that I'd actually able to Id any.  It's his legacy and I have no problem letting them be for now. |
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