Somebody in my neighborhood is spending 40 year old cents
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I went for tacos and got four cents in change with two being from 1979! The other two are 2018d and 2019d.
Sure was surprised to see this. I live in a retirement community and it's Christmas time, time to break out the
cash!!
bob 
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And I used Christmas stamps from 1976 to mail out my Christmas cards.
I do it all the time. When the LCS does not want bu rolls of of my excess 60's Jefferson nickels and 70 and 80 clad coins,I just turn them loose to the bank. Maybe it will spur new collectors in the market.
Some old duffer in the retirement community is probably happy with the tacos........just hope he doesn't figure out that mama lifted his collection to pay for them. Red or Green?
I've sent a lot of 1974 unc Cents to the bank and Coinstar this year - I know they got stashed away back when aluminum Cents were being considered.
If I had kept them, well, they might be numismatically valuable in seven or eight centuries from now...
WOW .... good thing you're trained to look closely on the change you have in your hand
Wow! 1979 cents are 40 years old!
Everything from 1979 is 40 years old - even people!
I'm sure they'll be happy to be reminded.
Real happy!!
1979... A good year.. was living in Phoenix and having a wild time...and I was single and under forty at the time...Wow....Great memories...I still get coins from the seventies and eighties in change here...Cheers, RickO
It's all relative. Remember when you were a kid and you found a 40 year old penny? It was so old. Even older than your mom and dad. It was special. And valuable!
I got a slider 1970 in change a while back... it's in my Dansco 7070.
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In 1979, A 40 year old cent did not mean anything to me, i just spent it like all the rest of the coins in my pocket!
Pre-1982 Lincoln cents contain about 2.5 cents worth of copper. They will eventually disappear from circulation for that reason. That is also the reason that as of the mid-1982, the Lincoln cent is primarily composed of zinc. The so-called zincoln.
I never found a 40 year old UNCIRCULATED penny when I was young...wish I had that would have been the teens!
bob :
Making me feel REALLY old.
Ever been to Pago Pago?
I'll bet you have!
Pete
Actually, they are more common than they were several years ago based on my limited roll searching,
Yes, they are worth over face in bullion, but it is illegal to melt them. People who hoarded them by the 1000s started dumping them back into circulation when they had no easy way to monetize that premium.
@BuffaloIronTail ... Actually, no... I have never been to Pago Pago.... New Zealand, Hawaii, British Columbia, Barbados, Antigua, Jamaica, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Azores, France, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, England, Scotland, Canada, Virgin Islands, Trinidad....a few others... but missed Pago Pago...
Cheers, RickO