Man saves his coins for 30 + years

The MSN story says the coins were collected for more than 30 years. It doesn't say when the collection was begun. Is that info shared on reddit?

 

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I enjoyed seeing the pic of that glass water jug. I really want to know how much junk silver was actually in all that. did we get a confirmation on all the silver coinage yet ? let us know. thanks for sharing a cool story.

 

An interesting story. Not very believable, but interesting nevertheless.

I always check my change. Occasionally I'll find a wheatie, but never any silver.

 

That doesn't look like that much change for so many years. I have a friend that saved his for 15 years. He never gave it up when shopping. If the total was $1.01, he gave them $2 and made them give him back the .99 cents. He ended up with 4 glass water water bottles full of quarters, two full of nickles, 1.5 full of dimes and 6 full of pennies. The idiot ( I say that lovingly) took them to the bank, ended up with just over $14,000.00...... not bad, but I'm sure he could have had much more if he had sorted them.

 

I didn't see it. Sure, if he started in 1954 and stopped in 1984, I can understand a large amount of silver. But starting anytime in the past forty years or so.. well, not so much.

 

Wow - Not a single silver coin visible. If 95% of the coinage was silver, he would be stoked. Unfortunatly....

all the pennies I can see are zincs

And nickels are modern jeffies

all the quarters are State and national park quarters.

All the dimes are shiny nickel.

Nothing is old in this collection. We all know that - Let the Masses feel good about this story I suppose. But I had to post what I noticed.

 

I bought a similar hoard of coins two years ago, a generation's worth of pocket change, but all Canadian 1-cent coins. There are about 65 kg (140 lbs) of Canadian 1-cent coins in this photo, and not a single one is newer than 1965. Lots of BU coins sprinkled in the mix too. I love stuff like this, as it makes perfect hunting grounds for Zoell varieties.