Pocket Change Finds; Post Your Results

all I recall on quick examination was a bit of junk built up about the device. Circulation grease.

 

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Retail establishment where I work uses a dispenser to supply change to the cash registers and self-checkout stations; I was there when they were filling it with more quarters, and one was rejected... it was a 1952-S silver quarter. They let me buy it from them for face value (good deal as with current silver prices, it has almost $15 worth of silver in it!).

 

I was working in a restaurant as a kid. Heard the cashier open a roll of silver quarters and dump it into the till. I claimed all the silver before she could cash the patron out. Knowing I’d have to replace that roll with another, I quickly claimed the silver quarters in the lockbox. Good thing I did. There were three more rolls and a roll of uncirculated 1965. I gave her that roll. In short - 4-rolls of silver for face value. That was a good day!!

 

Self-checkout reaching waaaay back for those quarters today - but, as usual, not quite far enough.

 

Close…and that 1965 toning might cause a moment of excitement.

 

That's the second or third old clad coin I've gotten in the last couple of weeks that absolutely looked like silver when it first dropped out of the slot. It's as unfair as a green-tinged non-war-nickel.

 

Another find rejected from the cash dispenser: 1963-D silver Roosevelt dime

Also, my father found a 1945 wheat cent in circulation, and have it to me.

 

Second Dime .70 cents change! I am over going to places that don't give the correct change. Safeway today.

 

Still not seen any of those yet... hopefully soon!

 

I feel lucky having a few of the earliest. They will be out.