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Message:: [QUOTE="dollarcoins4fun, post: 754680, member: 12109"]About this time of the year we seem to always hear about someone dropping a valuable gold coin in a Salvation Army collection bucket. It happened recently in York, PA. I only started collecting coins back in 2007 when the U.S. Mint began their Presidential Dollar Coins series. Since then I've been collecting the rolls and proof sets. I joked with a good friend when he asked me why I got into coin collecting and I told him that out of all of the items I tried collecting in my lifetime, these would always be worth something. You can't say that about other collections. For example: I'm collecting state quarters in the 20 dollar coin containers. I have a cointainer for all fifty states. If I fill all of the plastic coin rolls and do nothing with them, and they don't go up in value, then I have saved 500 dollars. They are worth something. It's a good way to put pocket change to use. I'm sure many people on this website will put a dollar coin away in a drawer when they get it for change. Well you just saved some money. Proof coins. Has anyone ever found one in circulation? Is it true collectors will do this every so often (drop one in circulation) just to drum up some excitement out there in coinland?[/QUOTE]