Have posted over time in the Post Your Pocket Pieces thread in CoinChat but I figured I'd make a thread to show the progression all in one place. I picked up this cleaned cent specifically for this purpose and only later decided to do photos of the stages, so in lieu of taking them with my usual setup I just tried to match the first ones I took as best I could. The first two are the seller photos but when I got it, that's about how it looked in hand- bright, colorful and completely unnatural: May 2017 For the next two months of summer, I kept it in my pocket full of random old coins every day while taking my three year old daughter to the park, then once there I tossed them all out here and there and let her treasure hunt. (I don't know if it's because of technology or what, but even on a military base full of thousands of kids, there's often no one at the parks. Gotta get creative!) I lost the coin in the wood chips and dirt more than once but we always managed to find it again. Alternated between that and keeping it on a wooden block on my kitchen window sill. July 2017 Two more months of the same: September 2017 Since September it has just sat on the window sill and I have handled/flipped the coin every so often. February 2018 (Today) So far so good overall, I think. Looking forward to taking her back out for another tour of treasure duty when the weather gets warmer and seeing how she looks in the fall!
Looks nice. I would be afraid to put a soft copper coin in my pocket with a bunch of copper-nickel ones.
It goes in with a bunch of old cull indian cents- closest I could get to antique circulation. ...Won't be jumping the gun today- snowing pretty good here which is strange for lowland Western Washington. Hope it clears up before my commute on Monday cause a couple inches sends the whole region into chaos.
I remembered that I had an original 1847 (on right) here so I snapped these to compare: Considering what it looked like when I got it, I'm pleasantly surprised. I'll never sell it cause it's tied to all the memories now... just need to decide when I want to call it a day and put it in a capsule instead of risking losing or dinging it I guess.
