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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2957105, member: 112&quot;]Ask somebody who has ever worked a cash register how many rolls of coins they go through in a single day. In most cases it&#039;s a lot - for all the denominations. But what happens to those coins once they have been given out ? Most people don&#039;t spend their change, they take it home and throw in a bowl or a jar at the end of the day. Then some time later they&#039;ll cash it in either at a bank, or a CoinStar or the local convenience store. Point being as a general rule coins get used and then they sit for some variable period of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint claims that the life of a coin is somewhere around 25-30 years, as a general rule. Some get worn out sooner, others later. And that&#039;s because of what I described above. But if a coin were carried or used every single day, how long would last then ?</p><p><br /></p><p>KSorbo&#039;s answer above gives you an example. And I can give you another. I carried this coin in my pocket with 4 quarters, and a pocket knife, every day, 7 days a week, for 7 years. And it had several predecessors that were carried exactly the same way, but for shorter periods of time varying from 1 to 3 years. The rate of wear on all of them was pretty much the same. Each one was purchased brand new.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]723131[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]723132[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When I sold that coin that&#039;s what it looked like. I would grade it no better than F15, and it took 7 years of daily carrying for it to get that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does that answer your question ? No, not really because that coin was carried every day - and most coins are not. And some people think gold is soft, but it really isn&#039;t, it actually wears very well as you can see. Just as well as silver I would say. And maybe even as well as clad coins. And I say that because clad coins do not have the relief that gold and silver coins had, so while the metal of clad coins is without doubt harder, since the design is so much lower in relief it would take less time to wear it away. But if clad coins were minted with relief equal to that of gold and silver coins I have no doubt they would last longer, probably a lot longer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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