Catch and Release...
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lkenefic
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Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;
Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
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Great way for folks to get introduced to collecting!
Good idea
I would have a difficult time parting with those Buffs... and I keep all wheaties too....
I really should let go of some....maybe next year 
Cheers, RickO
Couldn't tell you how many wheats I've sent out and about - I don't keep them.
Nice!!
I had a bunch of common date and well worn V nickels that I released about three months ago.
USAF (Ret) 1974 - 1994 - The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.
Thanks All... Two of the Buffalo Nickels were dateless, one had a readable 1934 date. All of the Wheat Cents had readable dates... one 1911 and one 1924(?).. the rest were 30's and 40's dates...
...and yes... the goal here is that some 12 year old will get jazzed about finding an old coin in change and be drawn to the hobby... albeit however small the chance is....
Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
This is a win win situation.
and @lkenefic can get rid of the cream cheese cup. 
Seeding coins into the general circulation will make a "searchers" day
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Glad this is coin related.
Yep, something to release every April. Somebody will catch the collecting bug.
I dump (clad) proofs into my change, yours is a better idea. Much to the chagrin of the your closest B&M coin guy I suspect. Who has to deal with the “this dateless Buffalo goin make me rich” types
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
There is another kind of "catch and release" I have seen on this forum and elsewhere (though I am not referring to any one particular collector). A collector spends years and years assembling the perfect set, hunting down coins in a certain grade range and with just the right look. The building of the collection is an ongoing saga, and the completion of the set culminates with securing that last problematic coin that doesn't appear for sale very often. The set completion is a momentous occasion, but we are all shocked when the whole set appears in the very next Heritage auction, releasing the coins back into the collecting wild.
It reminds me of an episode of a popular TV show where, in a parody of Looney Tunes, the Wile E. Coyote finally catches and eats the roadrunner. He falls into deep depression a short while later, having nothing to chase.