Pocket Piece - Who Has One?

i am training a new recruit. this coin was BU in early January, not a scratch on it..




for the last several weeks this 2012 ASE has been in my pocket when I go out to feed the cats & find money each night. everything I find goes into the pocket with the ASE. it is being seasoned by all the coins & currency that I am fortunate enough to find, so it is also being trained. it doesn't become lucky just because I say so. it needs to understand why it is in my pocket, needs to be trained for it's new purpose, so I have to let it congregate with all my lucky finds, and it should - over time- become lucky, in that it will become an attractor for good fortune. for now it's my pocket piece. later it'll be my lucky pocket piece.

I've never carried a pocket piece before, so I get to watch it wear down very very slowly.

expect an update around my 2000th post. i'll set an alarm for it.

I've never had one, but it sounds cool.
This 1966 silver 50 cent has a red marker cross(which seems acetone resistant) on the reverse, so I'm thinking a life in the back pocket may get some of it off. Progress pics to follow.

Here is my progress as of May 2023. All the same coins as my last update a year ago, which doesn't usually happen. The Ike was a coin machine find that has been in my pocket since about New Years 2021. The Franklin was a circulation find, and been with me since April 7, 2020. And the Irish penny I've had since January 2022 (prior to that was a 1968 penny which I swapped out for this one, since this is my mother's birth year and from whom I inherited my Irish ancestry).

This topic reminded me of a line from a Garrison Keillor sketch, "Guy Noir, Private Eye":

"Her pants were so tight, you could read the dates on the coins in her front pocket."

(N.B.: If you don't know Garrison Keillor, he's an American humorist who used to do a variety show on National Public Radio. "Guy Noir" was a takeoff on Mickey Spillane-styled detective stories.)

Starting to look good!

All are looking good and I always love a family or historical connection. Ive posted elsewhere here that I inherited my great great grandfather's pocket piece, an 1851 large cent, back in 2015. It's very corroded, worn, and dark toned. I thought about either adding it to my pocket collection or purchasing a nicer example from the same year, but ultimately decided against either for the time being.

I hope so, too!


Keep that one in nice shape! Find the missing one or acquire another "junk" half for the pocket.

If there is any consolation, believing that is its fate should suffice.