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Anybody Else Throw "Goodies" Into Circulation?

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 Posted 08/04/2011  11:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John Bonzo to your friends list
Personally, it would bring me more joy to give that kind of stuff to kids. But it certainly is not pointless if you enjoy doing it!
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 Posted 08/04/2011  11:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add IC Double to your friends list
Yeah I throw goodies into circulation all the time. I like to keep my collection small enough for just one book. Heck I even threw silver into circulation at times but not now due to to many people sending them in to get melted. It seems that kids are most fascinated with foreign coins than anything. Every once in awhile Ill give some foreign coins to kids. If I gave the kids silver coins then the parents would take over and keep them for themselves. To many greedy people in this world anymore.
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 Posted 08/05/2011  08:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list
Absolutely, although with metal prices these days, I've quit doing it with silver. I just had a rather tight week, so I grabbed some junk silver I'd forgotten about and totalled it up for liquidation.

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 Posted 08/05/2011  11:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BadThad to your friends list
I've tossed a few horrible wheats, Ike dollars, $2 notes and other stuff back into the wild.
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 Posted 08/05/2011  11:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add glenzy1 to your friends list
A couple of years ago I bought a coffee using some spare change. Within the change I tossed a mintstate Lincoln Cent 1909~VDB. Gosh I still havn't received it back yet!

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 Posted 08/05/2011  1:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
I too to that a real lot. As I accumlate change around the house, eventually I take that to a bank. I always throw in a few Wheats. I love spending half dollars at flea markets and some neighborhood stores. It is fun to watch the look on faces when you hand them half dollars.
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 Posted 08/05/2011  1:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Hambone to your friends list
Yeah, I do that at Wal-mart, carl.

"This is $5.50, right?"


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 Posted 08/05/2011  1:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add XavierOfGreen to your friends list
When I worked at the bank I used to give rusted steel wheaties out to kids that were coin collectors at the bank, they were estatic since they had never been able to get them in circulation. I also had been saving 3 1934 series hundreds in my teller box waiting to get enough spare cash to buy them out, but one day my box ran low on money so the head teller forced me to give them out to a customer who could care less what the year on them was.

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 Posted 08/05/2011  9:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Lion4Life to your friends list
Was inspired by this thread to release a dateless buffalo into the wild earlier today :)
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 Posted 08/05/2011  10:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Nazarene to your friends list
I reintroduced some rough silver certificates back into the wild yesterday.
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 Posted 08/05/2011  10:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismaniac to your friends list
Back when silver was 5 or 6 bucks an ounce I used to put a lot of Mercury dimes into circulation. The price of silver today kind of makes it a bit tougher to do. I do still like to give some stuff out to people who I think will enjoy it. Gave a teller at my bank a Walker, a Franklin and some Barber dimes the other day. She was so excited she showed all the other tellers.
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 Posted 08/05/2011  11:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kopper Ken to your friends list
I always like the look on kids faces when you hand them an Ike dollar!!

Almost as funny as when I tell kids that I used to watch B&W TV. They ask what that is? Priceless!

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 Posted 08/05/2011  11:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add allranger to your friends list
I put a lot of $2 bills, SBA, Ike's and Kennedy's back into circulation. Most people under 30 have never seen them so they don't know what to do with them. I once bought a rabbit from a 4H girl and paid $10 all in "strange" coins. It was great.
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 Posted 08/06/2011  12:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DBM to your friends list
I like to put $1 and $2 notes into circulation again,as well as nickel dollars and fifty-cent pieces
Entertainment value and possibly generate some interest in collecting
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 Posted 08/06/2011  11:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinmanjoe to your friends list
Today was really fun. I shopped at a local flea market and paid with all change. I had a sack of 100 wheats, 20 buffs, 2 winged liberty and 40 golden dollars from various series and oh yea I put a very poor silver Ike into the mix. I got laughs and surprised faces all day. I love coins.
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