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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 46841, member: 68"]Yes, there is a great difference between the way coins are used now days and the way they were used in the early '80's and before. It really has been evolving for many years as inflation has eaten away at the value of the coins. In the '70's a nickel or quarter was not an insignificantly valued weight in the pocket or purse. It was useful for making small purchases like a pack of cigarettes or a can of pop. Th coins spent a lot of time in purses and pockets getting a nice even polishing all the time. When they slid it was usually across a counter when making a purchase. The coins in circulation mostly wore normally and would appear bright (even if ugly) after a short stint in circulation. When put into fed or bank storage they would darken up. Today few people carry many coins. Men usually don't "jingle" as they walk and the rarely even slide across counters since the trip tends to be from the bank, to the store, handed to the customer and back through the cointing machine at the bank. Coins often will spend weeks or months out of circulation in vending machines and change jars. In 1970 it would have taken about 10 or 11 years for all current year coins to wear enough to lose all their luster. By 1980 this was up to fifteen years and now it's probably close to twenty. (though it may appear faster as time goes by because of collectors removing better coin). </p><p><br /></p><p>Today, coins are essentially beaten into lower grades. Their metal is sloughed of from bouncing through coin discriminators and counters. They are banged against others being rolled and transported. They often get caught in a loop transaction in casinos and the like where they are used over and over with almost no polishing sort of wear. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is just one more of the things that make circulating coinage so fascinating. You can find coins that tell many stories like a nice evenly worn 1967 quarter in VF or a '66 issue in AU with todays more typical sort of wear. Every coin has a lot of stories to tell about why it was made and how it was used. More of these stories are readable with current coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 46841, member: 68"]Yes, there is a great difference between the way coins are used now days and the way they were used in the early '80's and before. It really has been evolving for many years as inflation has eaten away at the value of the coins. In the '70's a nickel or quarter was not an insignificantly valued weight in the pocket or purse. It was useful for making small purchases like a pack of cigarettes or a can of pop. Th coins spent a lot of time in purses and pockets getting a nice even polishing all the time. When they slid it was usually across a counter when making a purchase. The coins in circulation mostly wore normally and would appear bright (even if ugly) after a short stint in circulation. When put into fed or bank storage they would darken up. Today few people carry many coins. Men usually don't "jingle" as they walk and the rarely even slide across counters since the trip tends to be from the bank, to the store, handed to the customer and back through the cointing machine at the bank. Coins often will spend weeks or months out of circulation in vending machines and change jars. In 1970 it would have taken about 10 or 11 years for all current year coins to wear enough to lose all their luster. By 1980 this was up to fifteen years and now it's probably close to twenty. (though it may appear faster as time goes by because of collectors removing better coin). Today, coins are essentially beaten into lower grades. Their metal is sloughed of from bouncing through coin discriminators and counters. They are banged against others being rolled and transported. They often get caught in a loop transaction in casinos and the like where they are used over and over with almost no polishing sort of wear. This is just one more of the things that make circulating coinage so fascinating. You can find coins that tell many stories like a nice evenly worn 1967 quarter in VF or a '66 issue in AU with todays more typical sort of wear. Every coin has a lot of stories to tell about why it was made and how it was used. More of these stories are readable with current coin.[/QUOTE]
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