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What's the oldest coin you've spent at face value?
lkeigwin
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I like to spend some old, not-so-valuable circulated coins just for fun. Don't you love stumbling across an old wheatie or silver dime? I spent a 1919 Lincoln the other day and I have some buffalo's I'll spend next month.
What's the oldest coin you've put back in circulation? Intentional or accidental? Why'd you do it?
Lance.
What's the oldest coin you've put back in circulation? Intentional or accidental? Why'd you do it?
Lance.
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A girl at a convenience store near my home was getting into collecting, so I'd buy my Sunday paper with old coins.
She'd buy them out of the till.
Of course that was when silver was under $3 an oz., and I couldn't sell my nice VG Barber Halves for even $4.50.
Ray
I've spent some 1890's Indian Cents.
Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
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They were just culls, but still!!!
wonder where it is today????
<< <i>I've given common Morgan's as tips more than once. Just for the heck of it. >>
What kind of reaction do you get to that? I would think it would be pretty varied.
As a collector, if you ever get irritated at your local dealers, go spend a thousand bucks in Kennedy halves and Ike dollars around town. Give it a week and then go cherrypick them while they are on the telephone for the better part of the day.
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First, some backround...
Growing up in the 60's in small-town Oklahoma and working as an automotive fueling specialist (gas pump jockey), I often received obsolete coins that dated back to seated Liberties and occasionally even a bust coin or two. (In fact, this is what got me started on bust halves.) Later, after college, I went back to said small town and asked a couple of elderly gentlemen who had been regular customers if they had been "priming the pump" so to speak and seeking a new collector. Never could get either to admit it but I still think so.
I now do the same thing. It is really cool to see the look when you spend a large cent or cull silver. Who knows...maybe the next Bustchaser is out there right now. I have spent half cents and large cents back to the 1830s. Two centers are always fun. I have been known to leave seated material from half dime to half dollar as tips. (But I prefer to spend obsoletes over the counter so that I can see the reaction and possibly strike up a conversation.) I have spent every Morgan than I have ever received. Never spent one of my silver bust coins...yet! Guess I need to hit a few junk boxes at the next show I attend.
<< <i>I'm sure I've also spent many 1939 Nickels over the years as that's probably the earliest coin and denomination I wouldn't bother setting aside. >>
I think I'm with you on that one. Possibly I spent a few older Lincoln cents when I was real little and before I started collecting, like maybe 3 or 4 years old. I don't recall ever deliberately spending any "obsolete" coinage like Mercury dimes or Buffalo nickels.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
<< <i>Countless, no-date buffalo nickels. >>
Plenty of those, along with V-nickels. It's funny to see the look on the cashier's face when they put it in the draw. Then, while you're leaving, look back over your shoulder to see them take it out of the drawer.
Cheers,
Bob
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I had an interest in coins as a kid in the 1950's, and set aside the older and/or not-so-common coins in a pickle jar. When the jar was about 2/3 full, my parents decided the money would be better off in a savings account, so we hauled it all off to the bank. There were lots of Buffaloes, Mercuries, Standing Liberty quarters, and Walking Liberty halves. I remember that one of the halves had the mint mark on the obverse, so it was a 1916 or 1917.
Jim
<< <i>I remember that Russ said he spent at least a 2c piece....not sure if he did it recently, or back when it was freshly minted
Spent seven of them.
Russ, NCNE
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I treausure my old coins (I have so few) so unless they are so bad that they are actually disgusting to come in contact with, and you fear that even the slightst touch with another coin would damage the other (I'm not talking about a rub/bag mark, I'm talking serious stuff like mold, corrosin, etc) then I keep it.
Why throw them in a bucket when you can enlighten someone and perhaps start a new collector off for 10 or 15 cents.
<< <i>I've given common Morgan's as tips more than once. Just for the heck of it. >>
It is customary at my friends' golf course that the group tips the forecaddie at the end of the round, usually $40-$60 per foursome.
I always offer my ballmark (a circulated Morgan or Peace dollar) in place of my $10-$15 share, and I've never been turned down.
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<< <i>I've given common Morgan's as tips more than once. Just for the heck of it. >>
Do you ever do that auto part stores? Thats where i got my 1922 from. to this day i have yet to go back there to get the light for my car that i paid for and forgot.