Do You Ever See Nickels or Dimes in the Penny Cup?

Coinosaurus

Discuss.

MsMorrisine

yet another do we need cents thread in disguise!

(btw, yes, at a couple of places I go to. I'm holding out for take a debit card give a debit card.)

jessewvu

Yep, replaced them with pennies promptly.

droopyd

occasionally

Aegis3

Yes. I used a nickel once to get my money up to the right amount. I was nice enough to leave my pennies of change back in the take/leave tray.

SamByrd

yes

ambro51

Should it not be referred to as a Cent cup?
































































you knew some wiseazz would ask that

Rampage

Yes, quite often.

Longacre

Yes, my office cafeteria frequently has nickels and dimes in the penny cup.

mrpotatoheadd

When it eventually takes 15 or 20 quarters to buy a candy bar, you'll start finding them there, too (the quarters, not the candy bars, that is).

scottgardener

I see them on occasion, though not often.

Do any of you ever look through the pennies, trading out the ones you get in change for whichever one in the cup is the best one? I've found a wheat cent in the cup once, and on several occasions over the past two years traded out early 2000s dates for the new bicentennial and union shield cents. I also often swap out post-1982 copper-coated zinc for pre-1982 copper.

tresgatos

If it wasn't for the penny cup I wouldn't be a coin collector! My last "pick-up" was a '51s Lincoln in VF up at the corner store.

Coinosaurus

<< <i>Yes, my office cafeteria frequently has nickels and dimes in the penny cup. >>



Is this supposed to be a "setup" kind of answer

SaorAlba

I have seen wheat cents in the cup, bought 'em out of course - best was a 1926.

johnny9434

every once and a while yes

fiveNdime

yes.
and ive used them. any change received was returned.

at work, there is one in the mailroom



maybe that's where my screen name came from???

pennyannie

My small town has a Subway sandwich shop right across the street from the local middle school. Those hip kids will not carry change. If they spend 7.01 they will not pick up the change. I was in there 10 day ago and i paid for my meal with the coins overflowing. Hardly made a dent in the bowl. Snotty kids with no concept of money. I do not mind stooping that low to save a buck or 2.

Our post office bowl has nickels and dimes in it, but you would be hard pressed to pay for lunch daily.

Look on the ground outside of the drive thru window at a fast food joint, good pickens

1Mike1

<< <i>When it eventually takes 15 or 20 quarters to buy a candy bar, you'll start finding them there, too (the quarters, not the candy bars, that is). >>


Off topic, but it reminds me, I was at the mall on Saturday and resting on the bench watching the world go by while a couple of young ladies walked by digging for money to buy some movie tickets. One of them dropped a quarter, gave it a snub look and kept walking. It struck me that when I was that age we would have never passed up a quarter - and not even now would I pass it up. It made me smile when a little guy, maybe 8 or 9 in age came racing across and quickly scooped the quarter. The way he beemed I'm sure it was the highlight of his day.