Hard Working Coins

SkyMan

Post a coin, with any Type of Lady Liberty, that has worked hard...

robec

sparky64

Worked very hard and now resting peacefully in my collection.

Catbert

Where's Donna Summers when we need her......

moursund

Rosie worked even harder!
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drddm

Dave

BryceM

vulcanize

Most of my older Liberties were hard working for sure, to the point of being really worn out and almost culls.

Meltdown

Mr_Spud

coastaljerseyguy

vulcanize

Scratched up and heavily used 1835 Capped Bust Dime

The_Dinosaur_Man

Downtown1974

Moose1913

jesbroken

Well worked.
Jim

SaorAlba

TennesseeDave

CoinHoarder

carabonnair

An 185? - O
Almost enough to identify.

DDR

This one worked hard overseas:

DDR

And here is a hard working $20

DDR

This one likely worked hard out West:

lkenefic

ChangeInHistory

Moose1913

Zoins

@Moose1913 said:

Wow!

That's amazing @Moose1913!

I think this is the first St. Gaudens I've ever seen with so much circulation!

ricko

This one worked for a while.... Cheers, RickO

Cheers, RickO

PerryHall

@Zoins said:

@Moose1913 said:

Wow!

That's amazing @Moose1913!

I think this is the first St. Gaudens I've ever seen with so much circulation!

Most were pocket pieces and didn't circulate in the normal sense of the word. Very cool coin.

vulcanize

She's been working hard since the onset of World War I .
Wonder if she went overseas stashed away in the pocket of a soldier and saw any action.

Zoins

@PerryHall said:

@Zoins said:

@Moose1913 said:

Wow!

That's amazing @Moose1913!

I think this is the first St. Gaudens I've ever seen with so much circulation!

Most were pocket pieces and didn't circulate in the normal sense of the word. Very cool coin.

Good point!

It got my blood circulating!

kaz

Moose1913

PCGS PO01 CAC

m4832

robec

coastaljerseyguy

Many of these.

FrankH

Kliao

bagofnickels

COCollector

vulcanize

Few more barber dimes in the raw that have worked hard and moved around a lot.

Nysoto

cladking

Oddly enough if you define a coin's "work" as allowing the transfer of a set amount of wealth from one individual to another then almost every surviving 1966 quarter has "worked" harder than any of these coins.

Copper and silver coins wear much more easily than clad does and back in the day coins got most of their wear in the pockets of workmen. Before machines to dig ditches coins jingled in the pockets of men. This combined with high velocity and sliding on counters wore the coins out quickly.

But 1966 quarters have most of their wear passing from hand to hand and being counted every time they get back to the bank. They trade hands less often but they wear so slowly they have already lasted 56 years in circulation. Indeed, where old coins wore out and had to be recoined after 20 or 30 years of hard use, most modern quarters are so durable that they'll probably be lost or destroyed before they get worn to VG. They'll almost invariably become cull before getting to G.

Finding non-cull nickels from the '60's, '70's, and '80's is getting pretty tough as well. More than 60% of these coins are gone and the rest look like they've been dragged through the mill.

World moderns are often demonetized before they get to VF condition.

OnlyGoldIsMoney

Bottom of the population at PCGS

WAYNEAS

Wayne

WillieBoyd2

United States 25 cents 1877-S
Silver, 24.3 mm, 5.87 gm

Moose1913

1795 50C PCGS PO01

Smudge

Coins worked a lot harder when they had value.

LukeMarshall

cladking

@LukeMarshall said:

If you define "work" as the wealth changing hands this one may be the winner. At least unless Moose1913"s $20 gold piece is all natural wear.

Some British crowns in the 18th century were were allowed to wear flat.