Number of coins in your pocket right now?

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DocBenjamin
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Pocket piece and cheesy Atlantic City keychain stuff counts as well.

Zero here, but probably 3 or 4 after the visit to the dollar store.

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  • jmlanzaf
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    Zero. Almost always

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  • Copperindian
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    None.

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  • PerryHall
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    Zero. I use credit cards for virtually all my purchases.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • World67
    World67 Posts: 13,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I still use cash for small purchases (so 3 coins) but the 2% cash back on the card is hard to beat.

  • Dropdaflag
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    Zero. I keep change in an old over-sized pill bottle. One in the house, one in the car.

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  • Creg
    Creg Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I carry the circulated proofs that I find—twelve and adding.

  • TwoSides2aCoin
    TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My brother and his friends all carry a silver piece. Either an Eagle, or old silver dollar. They meet for breakfast and other gatherings often. When there is a call for showing, who doesn't show that he has silver is charged with "vagrancy" and that guy buys .

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  • johnny9434
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    $4 quarters, i dont want to miss any silver or error <3

  • M4Madness
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    I'm a 100% credit card user here, so no coins (or bills) on my person.

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  • privatecoin
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    Right now, at my desk zero. When I'm out and about? 3 silver halves and two mint markers.

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  • retirednow
    retirednow Posts: 708 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I keep a role of Dollar Coins in my golf bag as tips for club staff ( Cart folks, beverage Cart Lady et al). I remind them that they are $'s and not quarters - most had never seen a Dollar Coin before.

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  • coinbuf
    coinbuf Posts: 12,567 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Four, three quarters and a dime. I use cash often but I also don't want to be weighted down and jingle as I walk around, so I will usually empty my pockets as I get into the truck or on the nightstand each night.

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  • 124Spider
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    That horse left the barn years ago. I almost never carry change, only having it when I pay cash for something and get change back. Then the change goes into the jar when I get home, and eventually goes to the bank.

  • gumby1234
    gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nine coins in there atm. I dump excess coins into a coin jar. Cash is king. I only use credit cards in an emergency or when traveling in countries thst dont use the dollar.

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  • OPA
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    None. all my change ends up in a large cup, and after 1 year, is cashed in at Coinstar for, @ full face value, an Amazon G.C. Pays for my Prime subscription.

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  • GotTheBug
    GotTheBug Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    None in my pocket most of the time and a quarter in my car for unlocking Aldi shopping carts. If I receive coins in change I spend them in the self-checkouts at Walmart.

  • Smudge
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    No coins, just a silver round for a pocket piece.

  • vplite99
    vplite99 Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Four, 3 cents and a quarter I got when I picked up some cleaning and they charged extra for cc purchases.

    I use credit cards for virtually everything, like so many others. I used to carry an old silver dollar pocket piece.

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  • golden
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    Zero.

  • DocBenjamin
    DocBenjamin Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nickel and a cent after a could shopping stops this morning. 2016 D cent has a cruddy stain, so I'll drop it in the garbage.

    Guess we are collecting obsolescence.

    (man...that was hard to satisfy the spell check.

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  • Jinx86
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    Three small local cash transactions today so far. All had been rounded by the sales person for even dollar amounts. Whats a dollar really worth anymore when our change is worthless?

  • DocBenjamin
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    @Jinx86 said:
    Three small local cash transactions today so far. All had been rounded by the sales person for even dollar amounts. Whats a dollar really worth anymore when our change is worthless?

    Yeah, Go to McDonalds and it takes nearly 4 pounds of Lincolns to buy a quarter pounder...and the cashier will not be pleased.

  • DDR
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    Zero. As usual.

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  • Greenstang
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    None, I don’t even have my pocket piece in my pocket anymore.
    Since the pandemic have strictly use credit cards.

  • GaCoinGuy
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    1.

    A dirty Lincoln I picked up in a parking lot this morning.

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    ZERO

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  • JWP
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    I carry a minimum of 1 1971 JFK & 8 quarters all the time. I started carrying a Kennedy half dollar in my pocket in 1971 while serving in the USN.

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  • baddogss
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    A 1993 ASE and recently added 1976 clad Ike $

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  • gumby1234
    gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @NewEnglandNotes said:
    Pocket? It's Saturday morning. Not wearing pants....

    Hopefully you are inside your house.

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  • OAKSTAR
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  • BLUEJAYWAY
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    None. Emptied the pocket last night. But use bills for purchases as I still like to receive coins in change to scan them. You never know what may turn up.

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  • Tom147
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    Old school here. Cash only. Working a 24 hour shift I come home with 3 to 4 dollars change every third day. Into the milk jug it goes. Probably have close to $ 1500.00 " jugged up " Roughly 3 to 350 a jug. It takes several hours to go thru a jug, sorting by denomination, checking dates, quick glance for varieties then rolling them up. Averages 1 trip from the truck into the bank for each jug.

  • Shurke
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    Zero for me. On the rare occasions I do get change, it goes into the cup holder in the car rather than into my pockets.

  • PerryHall
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    @Shurke said:
    Zero for me. On the rare occasions I do get change, it goes into the cup holder in the car rather than into my pockets.

    Not a good idea. Several years ago, some crack head in downtown Baltimore smashed the window on my daughter's car to steal a couple of dollars in change in her cup holder. It wasn't cheap to replace the window on her car. :#

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  • CoinHoarder
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    Two dimes and two cents from my change at the Golden Corral. And, one quarter that I found in the parking lot at the Golden Corral.

  • blitzdude
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    No coins, I too am almost exclusively credit card (can't beat the free gold coins I earn from the points). I buy a lot of stuff from the Amish so sometimes cash is necessary but even most of them are accepting credit cards now. I do have about $670 cash in my wallet just for emergencies. RGDS!

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  • Windycity
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    None... they go in a can at home. However, I just got back from a trip to Europe and found myself using the 1$ and 2$ euro coins all the time. Lowest paper note is the 5$. Better system!

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  • BStrauss3
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    Five - two Morgans, an Ike, a Sac, and a Columbian Half.

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  • goodmoney4badmoney
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    7 total. 1 Pocket Piece on the keychain, 5 quarters, 1 Half Dollar.

  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BStrauss3 said:
    Five - two Morgans, an Ike, a Sac, and a Columbian Half.

    Would like to see pictures of those.

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  • WAYNEAS
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    I only have coins in my pocket when I score at the Coinstar at the local grocery store, so the amount varies.
    So, 95% of the time, my pockets are empty. lol
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  • Shurke
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    @PerryHall said:

    Not a good idea. Several years ago, some crack head in downtown Baltimore smashed the window on my daughter's car to steal a couple of dollars in change in her cup holder. It wasn't cheap to replace the window on her car. :

    In this case, the cup holder is closed inside the center console, so it’s out of sight and doesn’t cause me much worry.

    When I was in college, someone broke out my car window to steal a backpack filled with library books. As big a headache as it was, it did amuse me to imagine the thief anticipating a score only to find 30 lbs of Robert Frost and other assorted poets.

    Did teach me to be careful about what was visible inside my car though.

  • DocBenjamin
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    @blitzdude said:
    No coins, I too am almost exclusively credit card (can't beat the free gold coins I earn from the points). I buy a lot of stuff from the Amish so sometimes cash is necessary but even most of them are accepting credit cards now. I do have about $670 cash in my wallet just for emergencies. RGDS!

    Maybe every couple years, the terminals in the grocery store go down and it is cash only. Yeah, green always works.

  • anablep
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    Zero, but I’m taking donations!

    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

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  • BStrauss3
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    @OAKSTAR said:

    @BStrauss3 said:
    Five - two Morgans, an Ike, a Sac, and a Columbian Half.

    Would like to see pictures of those.

    The 21 was a horrible pad-printed colorized monstrosity and after a year in acetone and a little poking was revealed to be all scratched up. So I make it a pocket piece to remove the worst. I thought she was lonely so I bought her a companion from a dealer's junk box. The rest just happened to jump into my pocket. Honest.

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  • Jacques_Loungecoque
    Jacques_Loungecoque Posts: 733 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I did just have 20 something quarters in mine. Ran up to grab smokes and forgot the wallet. What’s new….
    Fortunately, I keep a healthy collection of quarters in the center console for situations just like this.

    Having fun while switching things up and focusing on a next level PCGS slabbed 1950+ type set, while still looking for great examples for the 7070.

  • Coinscratch
    Coinscratch Posts: 11,086 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BStrauss3 said:

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @BStrauss3 said:
    Five - two Morgans, an Ike, a Sac, and a Columbian Half.

    Would like to see pictures of those.

    The 21 was a horrible pad-printed colorized monstrosity and after a year in acetone and a little poking was revealed to be all scratched up. So I make it a pocket piece to remove the worst. I thought she was lonely so I bought her a companion from a dealer's junk box. The rest just happened to jump into my pocket. Honest.

    What do you think Strauss, Levi 501s?

  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Very nice @BStrauss3, thanks! 👍

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