I was in my local morning haunt this morning and the owner knowing I collect coins was telling me that his wife had pulled a silver Rosie out the till the other day and was describing how different it looked. I was in the process of predicting that it was probably a 1964 when his coworker handed me my change and I first thought I had received a Canadian dime but upon close inspection it turned out to be a 1955 Six Pence. He was amazed at the money coming out of his till.
I think people are definitely putting money that they may have hoarded over the years back into circulation. The economy I guess. The other morning at McDonalds I got a '44 Merc and a Wheat back in change. Neither one was anything to write home about as they were both well circulated, but I'll take them all day long. Another one that I got a couple of days ago that is not significant, but worthy of note was a '62-D LMC that was nicely toned and probably ms-64, so it obviously just recently went into circulation.
It really does make you want to go out to your local bank and grab a box of dimes, nickels, pennies, etc. My change jar is overflowing and I need to hit the bank with it but at least I know that there will be nothing worth pulling in that jar. BTW Nice finds J-allen! :thumb:
Here, in South Florida, we get a lot of snowbirds from Canada who stay 3-4 months. I remember when I was bartending in the 80's, and the Canadian dollar was worth 70%USD. We would always end up with Canadian coins flooding the local economy. Some of the snowbirds would bring hundreds of dollars in change with them rather than lose 30% in a currency exchange. When they would pay cash for purchases, they would "salt" U.S. coins with a few Canadian coins, hoping they wouldn't be spotted. At the Billiard Congress of America's North American Championships in Las Vegas, the 200+ 7' bar tables were provided by Gary Benson. One year he provided the tables for the Canadian Championships just before transporting them to Las Vegas for the BCA event. The slot mechanisms used in Canada would accept both U.S. & Canadian quarters, but Gary's employees forgot to switch them to the U.S. quarters-only mechanism for the BCA event. The Canadian players were quick to take advantage of it, and during the first four days of the 8-day event, Gary lost $20,000 to currency exchange. Chris
