Submitting pocket change

TopographicOceans

At the local Indian casino they cash out tickets at a machine that dispenses cash and coins.

When I cashed out, two coins caught my eye since they had a lot of luster.

I had four modern coins I wanted to submit, so I threw in those two coins I got from the casino.

I did get a 2014 BOH 50c, 70DCAM but my casino coins didn't grade high enough to be winners.

Oh, well submitting them was more fun than giving money to the local Indian tribe.

2015-D 10C, FB MS66FB USA


2015-D 25C Blue Ridge Parkway NP MS64 USA


2014-D 50C Baseball Hall of Fame MS69 USA


2014-S 50C Baseball Hall of Fame, DC PR70DC USA


2015-W $1 Native American Enhanced Coin & Currency Set SP69 USA


2015-W $1 Native American Enhanced Coin & Currency Set SP68 USA

braddick

That's a neat experiment. I've thought of doing that too as some of the recent mint coins are extraordinary in luster and appearance.



I even spotted a new Lincoln cent in the Seven/Eleven cent tray that looked beyond GEM.

FullStrike

This is a harbinger. Soon we won't see metallic change or even paper money for that matter. Already we can go to a Fast Food place or a Vending Machine and use a Credit Card. The US Mint is already selling us clad coinage by the roll and bag for a good mark-up
. They even go so far as putting an S on some of our Quarters and acting as if it's some sort of extreme rarity. And the things they do
to bullion !

One day you'll get a shiney bright Coin in change and send it in for slabbing.

From the sound of it, we're already there.

cecropiamoth

Gosh I can't tell you the number of times I have been tempted to do this. Fortunately (I think) I never submitted any of the new 'pocket change'.



As an extremely active roll hunter during the 2009-2013 time period, I would often (beginning in 2010) receive full boxes of that year's current cents, nickels and dimes. These were not the so-called dirty rolls where some prior year's circulated coin would be mixed in, but full boxes of entirely new coins. These were the String & Sons or Loomis rolls that were supplied to the banks either by Garda or Loomis. I rarely hunted quarters, but the one time I received a full box of 2009 coins was the low mintage Northern Mariana Islands quarters (don't remember whether P or D)...I basically offered these to the LCS for face so that I didn't have to dump them, but they did not want them. Back to the bank they went.



So often the nickels and dimes would look outstanding as braddick described, oftentimes appearing with what I thought were PL surfaces. Never submitted any for grading, they always went back through the coin counters. Going through 2,500 cents or dimes or 2,000 nickels would have been mentally exhausting and destructive to the eyes. Plus I'm sure I couldn't tell an MS65 from an MS66 or 67. The other thing that held me back was that I was positive none of these coins could have been superior to those found in the modern mint sets.



It would have been an interesting experiment but I mostly enjoyed finding the silver dimes and halves (which have since largely dried up) and occasional war or buffalo nickel.



Jeff

ricko

I noticed new cents in the 'give a cent, take a cent' bin and asked about them... they were

from new rolls from the bank...so literally, high MS coins... Cheers, RickO

johnny9434

thats a novel idea. good thinking.