circulated Lincolns

renman95

Just in the past 10 days I've received in change: 1935-D, 1946, 1946-D. Does someone raid their dads collection or are these from the bottom of a 5 gallon Sparkletts jug?

Pentimento

All from the same store?

renman95

-46-D from Albertsons grocery store
other two from downtown vendors

Coxe

Many, many years ago, when I was a paperboy (delivered the now gone Philadelphia Bulletin) I would collect from this one house where, if they didn't have the change around, would just start popping coins out of old coin albums (starting with the first pane = earliest dates). There is something about coin collections when in the hands of the noncollectors in families.

StrikeOutXXX

I live in a very small village, so this may not apply in a populated area. I have seen circulated wheaties increase in change from the local businesses on a few occassions.

1) Our school does a fund raiser where you send in your pennies for whatever the cause of the year is. Same thing with village hall - they did a "Drop your pennies off" campaign to get the village clock tower fixed. Whenever these events happen, it is always a good time to go to the bank and try roll searching a week or two after the campaign wraps up.

2) The credit union put in a free coinstar type machine over the summer (First one in my area), so the change jars were coming out of the closet left and right. I'm sure the influx in older change jars becoming rolled coins and making their way to businesses has something to do with the small increase.

Or maybe it was just a fluke coincidence.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

I plucked a 1919 S in VG out of a take a penny leave a penny tray

BigE2

"Sparkletts"???

WoodenJefferson