2018 Silver Eagle “Pocket Change”

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I know, that's part of the attraction.

The ASE I've been pocket-carrying for six or seven years still doesn't show nearly as much wear as the AGE you posted. I'm guessing the 24K Kennedy would be significantly softer and wear more quickly. It's just that the (raw) one I have has no issues other than a copper spot or two, and I'd rather start with one that's already impaired. (I'm also super-cheap, so I'm not actively shopping for candidates...)

 

I know it wouldn't decrease the coin's value, as such. I just don't like damaging something that's pristine. (If I did decide to do it to this coin, I'd first try an experiment or two on those copper spots -- I think @Insider said there's a proprietary technique for getting rid of them without leaving visible damage on the coin, and I have some ideas I'd like to try when the stakes are low.)

 

Never really thought about it before, but it is interesting to see a Silver Eagle in circulated condition. Honestly though, I would have expected there to be more wear than that after 4 years clanking around in a pocket. I guess coins are more resilient than I thought, and I should more fully appreciate the beatings that heavily worn coins must have taken over their lifetimes!

I seem to remember reading that an owner of one of the 1913 V nickels carried it around in his pocket for years to show to people. If that was the case, then that has to top the all time list of "Pocket Pieces"!

 

That would be the McDermott specimen. Later purchased by Aubrey Bebee and eventually donated to the ANA museum. It is often on display at ANA conventions.

 

Go to a club and see if they have young Numismatic in the club. They are harder to come by. In our club, we have about five. I have planed to go to a Cub/Scout troop nearby but have not. Most of the coins today are not really that nice to really collect as a real investment. The big guys have gotten in and bought up the new stuff from the mint and then turn them around for sale at very high prices. They are not collectors and this is killing the hobby for all and especially the young collectors. I have been collecting since 1953/54. I stopped buying from the mint several years ago, after trying to order stuff I wanted but was sold out by the speculators/that were never collectors.

 

I got 3 1988 American Silver Dollar with my coins that he left me. None have a Mint Mark. He put it in one of those plastic coin holders. I just wanted to find out how bad they were when I finally got them. There were 6 all together. My brother got 3 and I got 3. Anyway, I wrapped the coins (with the cases), and put them with my other ASEs. I like to look at them from time to time. My Dad died in 1997 on his 72nd birthday. He was killed when a tractor/trailer broadsided him. It was instantaneous, thankfully. My wife and I were married November 22, 1996 and he died May 20th, 1997. My parents lived in Castroville, California and we were living in Dunn, North Carolina. I had a great life with my parents, especially when we travelled through Germany when I was 8. My Dad joined the U.S. Navy in 1942 at the age of 17, just after Pearl Harbor was bombed, December 7th. I was born in the Navy hospital in Hawaii, December 20th, 1947. I have gobs of pictures of my parents, especially of him in uniform. I'm going to downsize some of his pictures..one was him in the ancient navy uniform. He looks like a baby. He served in submarine duty in South Pacific. He sent my mom coins of places they had stopped. I've got them now. I am 74, now and I miss my Pop so much. When I was a kid, I had an allowance of 5 cents a week. I never spent them and I still have them.
Sorry for the length. You guys and gals are the greatest and I appreciate all of your comments.

 

How about an AGE...eh @GDJMSP

eh...Jeff beat me to it

 

I’ve never carried a pocket piece. As forgetful as I am, I’d probably be separated from it quickly.

 

You kids... that ain't nuttin.... 20 years in my pocket now....

 

At this point, I've been carrying my ASE for probably seven years, and haven't yet misplaced it. Over time it's been joined by other coins I'm trying to wear down, all received in change or found in a CoinStar.




The proof quarter and the steelies are hardly wearing at all; I think the lines in Washington's spaghetti wig must be struck halfway through the coin. My biggest disappointment is that neither the ASE nor the quarter are getting that dull texture that well-worn silver or clad coins usually display. (The Sac, dime, and half were about this worn when I got them.)

 

This has been a pocket piece for 60 years. First my Wife's Grandfather, then her Father and now me for two years. They were both Norwegian Merchant Navy Oficers and coin collectors. This coin has upwards of 100,000 sea miles under it's belt

 

But when I bought it it was sparkly-shiny, because someone had apparently taken a wire brush to it, and it's still sparkly-shiny in hand, with scratches everywhere. I'd pictured it wearing down to a nice uniform gray, but the fields are still mirror-reflective. I've thought about putting it in a bag of talc and putting it somewhere where it'll get shaken for a week or two. I've about given up on it, but at this point carrying it is a habit, so I'll continue.

 

My wife uses all my 'back to the fields' halves to buy Powerball tix; she always goes to the corner gas station and initially she'd have to tell them what they were, etc., but then that transitioned into the employees looking forward to seeing her as they had never seen (these are people in their 20's and 30's) them before and were actively swapping them out to keep. Never seen people so excited about mid-70's, beat up Kennedy's, but good for them!

 

walnut shell tumbling/blasting?