Today I received a surprise in change...................

.................and can not imagine how the coin has happened to stay in commerce for so long.
I cashed a check at a bank today. The teller gave me bills and change, including a few cents. One of the cents is a 1924 P in VG condition.
Pretty amazing to find an 82 year old coin in change.
I cashed a check at a bank today. The teller gave me bills and change, including a few cents. One of the cents is a 1924 P in VG condition.
Pretty amazing to find an 82 year old coin in change.
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SanctionII,
Neat to find something like that.
I have heard on this forum of some collectors putting coins like that in circulation just to hope it finds someone who then becomes interested in coin collecting to help keep the hobby growing. Maybe that is what happened here - or maybe the cent just found it's way to the bank many, many years ago and hadn't moved until you got it!
JJacks
Nice find w/ the 1924
You can still find them because their incidence has hit a near steady state at about 1: 1200. People release
them back to circulation at the same rate that others are removing them.
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<< <i>I received a pristine 1965 quarter in change about a month ago. >>
Now that's unusual! It's usually a '65 or '76 when it happens though.
I have. I used to have an assortment of well worn Lincolns and Indians in my truck that I used at places like Mcdonalds. Not once did I ever see cashier notice that the penny was odd looking.
Dennis
Looking for PCGS AU58 Washington's, 32-63.
gene2393
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It was the style with the old picture of Washington on the front and the eagle on the back instead of that State stuff. Man was I one lucky dude.
This is what makes coin collecting so much fun.
I can't wait to check my change today and see if I get an all copper lincoln memorial penny. I keep hoping I'll get a real one in change some time.
Ray
I have seen six of seven over the past month in very nice shape. I speculate that the original owner hoarded them. Their heirs took one look and sent them to the bank (or coinstar) as soon as they could.
One I saw about three weeks ago was better than the one I got from a mint set. It had some sort of black crud on the reverse so off to my bank (credit union) it went.
<< <i>Sometimes I think those big five gallon water jugs just get dumped into coin machines. For YEARS, one person stashes coins. In a New York minute, someone else cashes them. >>
That is exactly the where most of those come from.
I used to also get old coins as a paperboy, decades and decades ago. I'd go to collect the bill and occasionally there would be someone popping a quarter or dime out of an old coin album. Not often, but repeated a few times to my amazement.
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It is pretty cool that you got such an early date out of circulation, though. It's been years since that happened to me. When I get Wheaties in change these days, they're invariably from the 40s or 50s.
What I find harder to figure out is stuff like the sharp 1900-S Barber dime a friend of mine found in change in North Carolina a few years back. Or the 1948 Netherlands 10-cent piece I got- not only is that a markedly different design from any US coin, it is also smaller than any circulating US coin- smaller than a dime... closer to half dime-sized. You'd think somebody would notice that when they were spending it.