Uh OH

I started to skip some of the reply's, but it seems like everyone here mentioned it. I always pay paper money to get change... But here's somethign else. Check out the paper section of this forum. Soon you'll at least find yourself checking for star notes. Even if they are just to sell off for your coin hobby. Then you'll pick up on ladder notes, and some other things. I don't care for paper money much yet, but I can see myself getting into it one day. I want an all 7's barcode bill :)

I do the same now with change. Luckily my eyesight is such that I can check dates quickly so as not to get any funny looks from cashiers or by-standers.

I always check my pocket change but never find anything good. Like ever. I take a different approach and order boxes of coins to search through. You gotta limit yourself however, because if you ask for too many boxes the bank may just not want to deal with you. You also have to keep in mind the returning process of all those coins. Sure dumping them into a coin machine is super easy but the banks pay good money to send those bags of coins away, and may end up charging you past a certain dollar amount returned.

IMO searching boxes is your best bet for finding some neat stuff. With pennies I average roughly 10-15 wheat pennies per box, you might even pull an Indian Head cent if you get lucky. The same with nickels/dimes/and half dollars. You can still find silver dimes and halves, even the occasional War Nickel too. Ahhh the excitement when you pull your first Buffalo or V nickel, or your first Franklin or Walking Liberty.

Someone mentioned finding a wheatie on the floor of McDonalds, well the other day at work they removed this olllld vending machine from the break room, and underneath it was a beautiful 1935 wheatie staring at me... Only problem is there was this black goo surrounding the rim of coin and it was stuck to the floor. Luckily nobody was around to watch me struggle for a minute to get this thing loose. I ended up using my blade to pry it off, but sadly I gave the reverse a nasty scratch in the process! >.< Still have to remove the goo from Lincolns head.

You and I both, I have had my eye out for one of those as well. There are a couple on ebay that are close but they aren't solid 7's.

@Yonatin - I saw a PPQ67 $1 bill on ebay all 7's that was selling for something like 4grand. I thought to myself - it'll never sell. I never looked back to see if it did, but I can't believe that price tag.

Me, I do that all the time, even though it just drives me crazy when I see a silver dime in there.

I think there's a 12 step program out there for folks like yourself who are losing control to their addiction.

My wife has tried the interdiction path on me a time or two, but little has come of those efforts. Just hope someday they don't find me face down in a pile of quarters with a roll of halves clutched in one hand.

Coin collecting addicts ... what a terrible scourge on this earth of ours.