Interesting Pocket Change

[Rev_D21]

So I went to Wendy's for lunch this afternoon. I hand the counter girl a $5, she hands me back both a wheat-back penny from 1948 and a Mercury dime from 1944 for change.

[Dattebayo]

Sounds like some kid cleaned out his daddy's collection to buy some burgers.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

What's interesting too is that you scrutinized your change so thoroughly.

[goody90q45]

Nice find. Good that you didn't toss the dime thinking it was Canadian. If you didn't see it you would have heard a different sound as it jingled in your pocket. Wheaties end up in your change occasionally but the Mercury dime is a rare get. Was the cashier American-born?

[LAKE ERIE Z32]

one time i was at work filling up the change machine and i pulled out a raggy paper roll of dimes i got from the bank. i put it in the machine and noticed they looked weird, they turned out to be all silver dimes. i pulled out the dimes and threw a 5 in the cash register to even it out. i gave them to my dad he like those kind of things.

[Rev_D21]

I check all my change these days. Most interesting find for me was while sweeping the floors at my previous employer I unearthed a penny from 1910 out from under a shelf.

[breadbox]

I never look at my change. I guess I will now.

[Dattebayo]

People fear change.

[Looneybomber]

Whoa good score! Too bad I don't have anything quite that cool. In middle school one of my friends was going to buy a pop and I noticed his dollar bill looked funny. It was a silver certificate, 1928 series. I traded him my dollar and went popless that day.

[krimsonviper]

If one has a steel penny, or other valuable coinage, where would one to to exchange it for large amounts of $$$?

[Dattebayo]

If one has a steel penny, or other valuable coinage, where would one to to exchange it for large amounts of $$$?

That's the thing. Only un-circulated coinage and bills get the big bucks. The regular stuff only pulls in a max of maybe 4 or 5 times it's value. I've seen some exceptions, but not many.

[krimsonviper]

If one has a steel penny, or other valuable coinage, where would one to to exchange it for large amounts of $$$?

That's the thing. Only un-circulated coinage and bills get the big bucks. The regular stuff only pulls in a max of maybe 4 or 5 times it's value. I've seen some exceptions, but not many.

So my steel penny and silver dollar aren't worth much? I think it's a silver dollar. I need to look at my saved coins again.

[Dattebayo]

I had a silver certificate $5 bill that was worth maybe $15 once. That was the highest I have ever seen for circulated bills so far. Coins tend to pull a little more when they're rare.

[krimsonviper]

Dammit, I want one of my saved coins to be worth major moolah so I can sell it and have major moolah!

[Dattebayo]

Change your last name to moolah, join the army, become a major. Bam.

[nissangirl74]

I have some pretty cool coins from the early part of the century. They not be worth much but still cool to have. I saved an old $5, $10, and a $20 when they made the switch on the styles and I have one of each of all the new quarters.

[Rev_D21]

I have a silver certificate 1935 dollar bill. I traded the companies cash drawer for a 1969 $5 a few months back. For me it's neat to think about what the world was going through when a particular coin was minted. In the case of my 1944 Mercury head dime, WWII was still being played out. My 1910 penny, the Titantic was still only being built and hadn't sank yet, stuff like that.

[sx moneypit]

Just for the hell of it i keep any coin from 1970 back.I have a pretty good collection of old coins.

[Bubba1]

If one has a steel penny, or other valuable coinage, where would one to to exchange it for large amounts of $$$?

That's the thing. Only un-circulated coinage and bills get the big bucks. The regular stuff only pulls in a max of maybe 4 or 5 times it's value. I've seen some exceptions, but not many.

Exactly. It's condition, scarcity, and material. Not only must it be uncirculated to be worth more, but there also can't be too many of them around, plus silver/gold coins carry a premium.

Also, remember what a coin is worth is not necessarily what you can sell it for. 1948 wheatback pennies are common, so to sell one won't bring much money.

< collected wheatback pennies as a kid

[themadscientist]

64 and back coinage has silver in it of various percentages. I can bounce coins together in my hand and tell if I have one based only on the noise.
<greedy

[THawks]

Nice, I have a bunch of wheat pennies from when I was a cashier along with silver pieces, 50 cent pieces and a couple of silver certificates. Sometimes I miss working tills.

[HashiriyaS14]

What's interesting too is that you scrutinized your change so thoroughly.

I almost always do, I've found some pretty cool stuff.

Someone gave me a Euro once, I'm not sure what they thought they were giving me, as a Euro doesn't really look like any domestic currency.

[Jesda]

I absolutely despise coins. Sometimes I take a jar of change and dump it in the trash (after taking out the quarters). Its dirty and somehow ends up all over the house. [I'm not much of a details guy.]




Sorry, Ben Franklin. Your stove was nice though.

[Bubba1]

I absolutely despise coins. Sometimes I take a jar of change and dump it in the trash (after taking out the quarters). Its dirty and somehow ends up all over the house. [I'm not much of a details guy.]




Sorry, Ben Franklin. Your stove was nice though.

Jesda, there are banks that have free coin machines that you can empty jars into, receive a receipt for the value, hand it to the teller and get paper money. If the jar is big enough, it could be easily worth the trip. I do it every so often and get a tank's worth of gas out of it.

[Watermelonwarrior]

64 and back coinage has silver in it of various percentages. I can bounce coins together in my hand and tell if I have one based only on the noise.
<greedy

Your right. I believe its 90%. I just watched a video about us banking last night and they mentioned this.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Jesda, there are banks that have free coin machines that you can empty jars into, receive a receipt for the value, hand it to the teller and get paper money. If the jar is big enough, it could be easily worth the trip. I do it every so often and get a tank's worth of gas out of it.

That's what I do. I have a 2-liter bottle with the top cut off. Put all my change in it. When it gets full, I take it to my credit union and have them dump it in their counting machine. Usually comes out to a little over $100.

I hate change as well, though. I hate having it in my pocket. I actually broke the retracting "cup holder"/coin tray in my old Maxima by overfilling it with coins in an effort to get the damn things out of my pockets. Jingle Jingle SHUT UP.

[Chaotic_Warlord]

I generally don't have paper on me as I use my card to pay for everything, so I rarely ever have change. But me and the girlfriend have a bucket with a lid for our change and cash it in towards the end of every summer for the year, helps pay for a day or two down in Wildwood for her so I can have a day to myself, which equates to me sitting in front of the TV either watching a race, a movie, or playing 12 hours of xbox.

My step dad collected coins and paper money from around the world since he was a Loadmaster in the AF, so as a kid I got to see all kinds of cool money. I might add that the price of silver, gold, and copper is on the rise, so the value of coins made from any of those is probably skyrocketing.