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Message:: [QUOTE="NOS, post: 4980929, member: 2098"]It can be if you get lucky and find a stash from 50 years ago that was found by someone who is clueless or couldn't care less about coins. True example: in 2013 my grandfather revealed to me a glass jar of cents that had been stored away and untouched since 1974. The jar was obviously mixed but the most recent cents from 1974 were quite well preserved and shiny. It was of decent size of I'd say two or two and a half liters. The jar was shown to me only briefly before being put away again. In 2015, my mother went out to help grandpa move as he was frail and in declining health. It was two months or so before I was able to make it out to help with this move from North Carolina to Connecticut. I made multiple requests to please set aside this jar when it was found. All I heard for a good while was, "I didn't find such a jar." It later turned out the cents were placed into a plastic container to prepare their move up north. In 2017, grandpa departed this earth and being I had been inquiring about a glass jar and not a plastic container, the cents were subsequently brought to a bank for deposit. So there you have it. If you were in the right place at the right time there at the bank you could have had a nice score of cents that had been essentially untouched since 1974.[/QUOTE]