Doesn't it suck...

when you find coins this beat up?



It always makes me wonder what it could have been. Stinks a bit, but it is also interesting to see what a single coin can endure.

 

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They spend just as easy a pretty coins do.

 

Actually, change counters around me usually reject cents that are as far gone as the one on the left.

 

But you can still spend them...

 

I don't spend change, or cash, really. I'm a debit card/credit card kind of guy.

 

Either way the point of me posting this was to illustrate the fact that when you find something like this it is impossible to know if it would have been something valuable or rare; a fact that kind of sucks IMO.

 

it doesn't suck half as much as some imbecile piercing or plating a beautiful coin thereby destroying it.

 

I just throw them in the "take one-put one" bin or post them here

 

If you're a coin collector, why would you be a "debit card/credit card kind of guy"? It seems like you could better your chances of making a coin find by using cash instead of electronic "money" and looking through your change.

 

Merc is a roll searcher. He doesn't do change, but buys boxes to go through. I don't use change very much either in daily transactions.

Everything is plastic or direct deposit, electronic bill pay today.
gary

 

Really, it only sucks when it's a key date. LOL

 

Of course, there are folks that collect credit cards. The guy that originally sponsored me / signed me up to the ANA was Ken Hallenbeck. He was president of the ANA at the time & he collected credit cards.

 

Plenty of people that collect the credit on credit cards too.

I find change like this all the time. What sucks is when its a wheat cent or my weird looking war nickel that has been semi-mashed.

 

Ken is a member of my coin club and he still collects credit cards and other plastic forms of money. Last year he brought some cards he got while on a cruise ship.

 

Ask Ken if he has a Rickel's Hardware Store credit card. (I gave him that one and a few others):smile

 

Will do.

 

1967 was around the time I was really getting started. There were still plenty of silver coins in circulation, and once in a while there would be some surprises in change, such as Walking Liberty halves, Mercury dimes, war nickels, Hobo nickels, even a silver dollar or two.

 

It's 1960 something