escalator handrail, bowling ball return, put it Al Bundy's shoe..... I like the belt sander and tumbler idea. Are you doing a 'consumer reports' wear test on coins?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Brings to mind something I've wondered about for decades. Well, not every day, but... When I was a kid, one of the old numismatic-shops-in-a-department-store had a display of what a cash drawer in, oh, 1915 or so, might have looked like. There were loads of IHC and Barber coins there - all of which were our friend 'average circulated'. Well, that didn't seem right to me - heck, some of the coins should've been in decent shape. Here's my question. Assuming normal circulation, just how long would it take to wear down a cent / nickel / dime / quarter to average circulated a hundred or so years ago. 'Course these days most cents get lost well before that, and the clads probably never get down to average circulated - unless you hit 'em with that belt sander.
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Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
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Brings to mind something I've wondered about for decades. Well, not every day, but...
When I was a kid, one of the old numismatic-shops-in-a-department-store had a display of what a cash drawer in, oh, 1915 or so, might have looked like. There were loads of IHC and Barber coins there - all of which were our friend 'average circulated'. Well, that didn't seem right to me - heck, some of the coins should've been in decent shape.
Here's my question. Assuming normal circulation, just how long would it take to wear down a cent / nickel / dime / quarter to average circulated a hundred or so years ago. 'Course these days most cents get lost well before that, and the clads probably never get down to average circulated - unless you hit 'em with that belt sander.