Pocket Piece - Who Has One?

Yes, 999 you are absolutely right. As soon as I posted that, I thought of all the Chinese cash coins etc with no people on them. I suppose I was thinking mainly of Western coins - though it is still rare, worldwide to have an animate object on a coin but still have no human I think?

Another month has gone by already...Traded my 1978 Ike for a 1971.

Here is the current state of my pocket.

Just brought the Morgan back from a break. These are current pictures, along with the first pictures I took of it back in April 2015 on the day it arrived from ebay.

The Half Crown has been going with me since just before the first of this year. Started out pretty much uncirculated with plenty of luster, except that it had really nasty, ugly dark toning going on. Which is gone now.

Today






April 2015

Thank you for the update, hcmusicguy and very nice, paralyse!

I posted an Encased Cent a little while back that I was considering using but, I decided against it since they are collecibles and the long list of ones from Texas I found did not include mine.

I kind of forgot about the idea until I received a lot of cull Morgans and saw this:





It is a gold-plated 1921-D!

I'm interested in how the plating will wear and how long it will take to smooth out all those horrendous scratches. This is Day One.

Yep, this will be the first.

Edit: I was just thinking - are there any specific rules for a pocket piece? Is fidgeting allowed? I know it seems silly but I tend to do that.

I had one about twenty years ago. It was a proof 1977-S Washington quarter that I was trying to wear down. I kept it in my pocket for several years until the day I accidentally dropped it down between the seat cushion and arm of an overstuffed chair and it disappeared. I would have had to rip the chair apart to retrieve it.