I pulled a 1939 Nickel out of circulation yesterday

mrpaseo

Makes me think of how this came to be. Was it in circulation all this time, was it wisely spent by a collector to entice a new young numismatic to be born, or sadly was it stolen from a collection and spent at face.


How many of you put low grade coins back into circulation to produce more collectors? How have you done it and how many?

I have done it a time or two A few in rolls returned to the bank is the only way I have done it and only a few Wheaties.

Ray

cladking

Boy, there sure weren't any 74 year old nickels in circulation when I was young. It would
have had to be an 1882 at that time to be older.

Most of the old Jeffersons have been pulled out of circulation and then rereleased multiple
times which is their condition tends to be higher than a 1965 or even a 1975 nickel. Some
have seen extensive circulation of course but most of it came in their first few decades.

It's a great idea to return low value and old coins to circulation. Some modern day collectors
of circulating coins would prefer a nice high grade 1975 nickel to almost any 1939 nickel though.
A lot of moderns are so cheap they might as well be spent.

OldEastside

I save all pre 64 nickels, some years back I bought 2 or 3 dozen used
Jefferson Blue Whitmans for a quarter each at this B&M and had
been partially filling them and then giving them out to the kids and
their friends, nieces and nephews and ther friends, anyone that expressed
interest in the hobby, It has been fruitful as My Uncle started a WLH collection
and his son my cousin collects Liberty Nickels now and the both finished
the starter Jeffs collections I had gave them, two of my nephews and one
of there friends have gone on to collect other coin series as well, allthough
a couple of other nephews poked them all out and bought PokeMon cards
but it all been good.

Steve

unclebob

FWIW... today, I got a 1970s Washington Quarter in my change at the local Bojangles.

Gorgeous!

Somebody either got robbed or they broke into daddy's collection.

Makes me wonder what else they had in the change drawer.

DanielBoone

You can still find these types of "old" coins occasionally. I've recently found war nickels and teen-dated cents (unfortunately no mint marks) in circulation. Could be the result of someone spending "saved coins" after many years.

LanceNewmanOCC

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one of the things i enjoyed about silvertowne when leon was in the shop was just how much cool stuff i would get back in my change. he actually has distributed so much in that towne, you can often times go to local businesses and get cool stuff in your change as well. i bet people in that community have collected some neat stuff for face.
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roadrunner

Funny, I remember pulling Jeff nickels out of circulation for my Whitman books back in the 1960's. If I ran across an early date, it was invariably a 1939 Philly.
When I checked my change routinely in the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's I still ran across 1939 nickels fairly routinely.

messydesk

Whenever I get an old nickel or cent in change, I say to myself, "Cool!" Then I re-spend it so someone else gets to find it in their change.

erwindoc

I pull nickels out of circulation all the time and frequently search boxes. 1939 turns up often enough that it might surprise you.

keets

aside from the re-placed MM the design has remained constant since 1938 till it was abducted by Virginia. that makes it easily unnoticed by the average American so they just stay in circulation.

braddick

Catch and release!

magikbilly

Wow! You found a 1939 5C on the day after the 74th anniversary of the opening of the 1939 NYWF (April 30).

Neat!

Eric

rhedden

I actually plucked a 1939 doubled MONTICELLO out of circulation in 1989 or so. Too bad it' only a VG and the doubled die feature is nearly gone. In 1991, I followed it up with an XF+ 1939-D. Those were my two best finds searching rolls. Never got anything good in pennies except a 1984 with a rim cud.