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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Histman, post: 3976308, member: 75066&quot;]My wife is not interested in coins one bit.&nbsp; However, she tolerates my involvement and will actually help me look for them, bring my CRH rolls back to the bank for me, and never complains when I spend money on coins.&nbsp; God love her for that.&nbsp; However, I convinced her at Christmas time last year to do a little experiment with me and she agreed to come along for the ride.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Experiment: Use two jugs to collect coins throughout 2019...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1046536[/ATTACH] </p><p>One jug would be for coins that were in our pockets at the end of the day as change.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1046537[/ATTACH] </p><p>One jug would be for any coins we &quot;found.&quot;&nbsp; For the purposes of this experiment, &quot;found&quot; means Coinstar, Bank Machines, on the ground, on ledges, etc., anything that was not in a pocket as a result of purchases...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1046538[/ATTACH] </p><p>So, how did we do?</p><p><br /></p><p>Change Jug: </p><p><br /></p><p>Dollar Coins: $2.00</p><p>Half Dollars: $1.00</p><p>Quarters: $121.75</p><p>Dimes: $42.10</p><p>Nickels: $13.20</p><p>Cents: $11.36</p><p><br /></p><p>Total: $189.41</p><p><br /></p><p>Found Coins Jug:</p><p><br /></p><p>Bills: $105.00 ($100.00 &amp; $5.00)</p><p>***I didn&#039;t count this in the total because my wife refused to leave the bills in there.&nbsp; She found them so she said she got to spend them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Quarters: $11.50</p><p>Dimes: $16.30 </p><p>Nickels: $2.50</p><p>Cents: $7.14</p><p><br /></p><p>Total:&nbsp; $39.77 (plus $105.00 in bills)</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins included: Five (5) Silver -- 3 Roosevelt &amp; 2 Mercury Dimes, Nine (9) Wheat Cents, &amp; Two-Hundred and Six (206) Copper cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also found a whole bunch of foreign coins...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1046544[/ATTACH] </p><p>And tokens:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1046546[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>All-in-All, the total of both came out to $229.18 (plus $105.00 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)&nbsp; Not too bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>The important part is that my wife enjoyed counting it up and rolling it with me; she will enjoy where we spend it (dinner and some shopping), and is eager to do it all over again.&nbsp; So, I see a crack in the door to her coin interests.&nbsp; It only took 30 years. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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