Let’s See Your Pocket Pieces

People still CARRY change??

 

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Zoom in on the original photos and you can clearly see somewhat crisp detail.
Zoom in on current photos and everything is a blurry mess.

 

I had a 1917 obverse D WL half dollar in my pocket for a while. I don't know where it's at now ... possibly in the washing machine

 

I just emptied my pocket.
The 1926 Sesquicentennial is my pocket piece.

 

Here is a 2 year update.
I wish I originally posted photos of the Morgan front and back with the new quarter.
About a year ago I added a kennedy half that my grandmother gave to me. It started out as a high AU.

 

Three years…

 

True, it will eventually deteriorate but it will have great family history. Pass it on!

 

I have two. Been at it maybe a year.

 

I’m a few months late to this. But here’s 4 years.

 

I'm not sure what designation this is. It showed up in the mail awhile back. Doesn't seem to fit into my coin collection so i put it in my pocket. Has been there ever since. Only my wife is more astounded than I that it is not long lost. James

 

Now, that's starting to look like some circulation wear! I haven't yet managed to get comparable wear on any of my pocket pieces.

 

I don't have any pocket pieces.

 

I may have told this story, already. If so, sorry for the repeat. I have three pocket pieces: a Mercury Dime (year isn't important to me), an 1864 2-Cent Piece (this coin and this year because it was the inscription "In God We Trust" was put on a US coin - for better for for worse), and a Morgan Dollar (year isn't important to me).

The Mercury Dime was the first silver type I fell in love with as a kid! After collecting cents, nickels, dimes and quarters from pocket change and plugging holes in my Whitman folders (back in the late 70's/early 80's you would regularly find Wheat Cents and silver in pocket change), I got to go to a coin show with my dad. There, I saw it! A Mercury Dime in BU condition! Love at first sight! I had to have it!

The Morgan Dollar was the first "real" investment I made in a silver coin. As a kid, I bought a Morgan Dollar for $15.00, and thought I was some sort of big-deal collector! Since then, I've loved Morgan Dollars, and have had many in and out of my possession over the decades. Also, I love the feel of the heavy silver dollar, and the ring when I flip it in the air for "heads or tails"!

The 2-Cent Piece - partly because of the history of the inscription "In God We Trust". But, also, because it's a type that not many non-collectors have seen or even have heard of! So, when I was at work, during a meeting, I would occasionally take it out and toss it on the conference room table, and say "I'd like to throw my 2-cents in"! When people realized what I did, it got some chuckles. But, it also got a few people interested in what that strange coin was! And, I even sold two 1864 2-Cent pieces after they learned a little about the coin!

I don't think I ever convinced anyone to be a coin collector, but at least a few people have learned something from my pocket pieces, and a couple now own their very own 2-Cent piece!

 

I too graduated to the rank of master collector when I bought my first silver Morgan Dollar. mine (was) is an
1880-O in AU from Jake's Marketplace circa 1973. James