Artificially Circulating A Nickel 50-Cent Piece

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nalaberong Pillar of the Community Canada 2805 Posts	Posted 03/29/2013 11:33 pm We all know that nobody uses 50-cent coins anymore. I've never seen a worn nickel one. So I'm going to do an experiment: artificially circulating a currently nice-looking 1975 50-cent (right now I'd give it a AU-55?) by carrying it in a pocketful of change from day to day. The experiment begins Monday and I hope to post weekly updates. Let's see how low I can get it Report this Post to the Staff

Normic67 Pillar of the Community 798 Posts	Posted 03/29/2013 11:51 pm It`s going to take years to get it down to even a VF30 or so. Cool experiment through. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10464 Posts	Posted 03/30/2013 01:23 am You might have better luck fishing through the tubs at a coin shop... chances are, it is not from real circulation, but a pocket coin. It has taken me years to find lowball nickel dollars... https://goccf.com/t/136032 "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
kuh_85 Pillar of the Community Canada 2366 Posts	Posted 03/30/2013 09:52 am Get yourself one of those gem stone tumblers and put a couple of handfuls of coins in it. Report this Post to the Staff
1967Canadapenny Pillar of the Community United States 965 Posts	Posted 03/30/2013 4:24 pm awesome experiment As for the time scale, if you are relatively active, and carry enough change with you, it might only take a year or two. However, I would guesstimate that it would take considerably longer. Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 03/30/2013 9:31 pm Ten minutes in a lapidarist's stone tumbler will knock any coin about. Report this Post to the Staff
nalaberong Pillar of the Community Canada 2805 Posts	Posted 03/30/2013 9:41 pm I've got a rock tumbler, so maybe I could try that. Even if it's cheating. (Artificial toning, artificial wearing... what's next?) Report this Post to the Staff
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