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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CircCam, post: 3004885, member: 85675&quot;]Have posted over time in the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-pocket-pieces.292134/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-pocket-pieces.292134/">Post Your Pocket Pieces</a> thread in CoinChat but I figured I&#039;d make a thread to show the progression all in one place.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.&nbsp; The first two are the seller photos but when I got it, that&#039;s about how it looked in hand- bright, colorful and completely unnatural:</p><p><br /></p><p>May 2017</p><p>[ATTACH=full]744198[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]744199[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>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. <font size="3"> (I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s because of technology or what, but even on a military base full of thousands of kids, there&#039;s often no one at the parks. Gotta get creative!) </font><font size="4">I lost the coin in the wood chips and dirt more than once but we always managed to find it again.&nbsp; Alternated between that and keeping it on a wooden block on my kitchen window sill.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">July 2017</font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]744200[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]744201[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Two more months of the same:</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">September 2017</font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]744202[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]744203[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Since September it has just sat on the window sill and I have handled/flipped the coin every so often. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">February 2018 (Today)</font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]744204[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]744205[/ATTACH]</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">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! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":snaphappy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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