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What Coin(S) Do You Most Regret Putting Back In Circulation?

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 Posted 05/04/2015  4:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add X2an to your friends list

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There a few gold coloured World aluminium bronze bronze coins that are physically very close to the Australian $2, but with much less buying power in their own country.


The Swedish 10 krona coin is almost identical to the Aussie $2, even remember I got one in change once. I'm pretty sure it has less buying power than $2 but not much. I surely didn't spend it here though.

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 Posted 05/06/2015  11:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JoggingLiberty to your friends list
I regret paying the pizza delivery guy in Franklin half dollars. I did that about a half dozen times.
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 Posted 05/07/2015  08:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list
Was this recently or back when silver still circulated?
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 Posted 05/07/2015  09:51 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mister Kairu to your friends list
These stories make me cringe... I am young enough though that I don't remember putting things back in circulation since I have been looking at coins for about half my lifetime (10 years about). Wait scratch that I do remember I had about 20 P/D Eisenhower dollars I got from working at a CU and I was going to keep them because they were awesome but figured I would rather spend the 20 dollars on some silver coins sold I deposited them. That is the only story I have that I somewhat regret.
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 Posted 05/18/2015  02:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Numisma to your friends list
When I was 6 (in 2006), I didn't know much about coins, but had amassed a number of Mercury dimes. Many probably got mixed in with my change. But, unfortunately, I made the decision to dump my coin jar into the Coinstar machine without checking it. (gasp) The memory haunts me to this day. However, I can feel a bit better, as 2 years later, when I was 8 and knew what I was doing, I caught my mom as she was about to spend a 1963-D quarter in a vending machine. I still have it.
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 Posted 05/18/2015  02:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Normic67 to your friends list
If those dimes were rejected someone had to of found them and went walking off with them, if not then they went to the bank and got sent to be destroyed.
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 Posted 05/18/2015  02:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Numisma to your friends list
I hate just knowing that coins (or anything old in general) are going to be destroyed, even if it doesn't have direct consequences on me. BTW- forgot to mention another one (doesn't really fall into this topic, but I'll post anyway), around the same time I found the 63-D, my grandfather gave me a 1943-P War Nickel from his coin jar. Upon examination, it was- guess what- a 43/2, Red Book value $50 US. (I'm now suspecting he may have bought it for me to find, that's the kind of thing he would do) Unfortunately, I haven't seen it in 4+ years. On the bright side, though, I'm fairly certain it still exists.
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I took about a decades hiatus off. My uncle who is a mechanic was saving all the old pennies he has gotten out of the vehicles. Sure as anything a couple months before I really got back into collecting I went to the TD bank and dumped them without even looking in it. Boy do I cringe to this day and this was a little over a year ago only. Got back collecting last June and I check every piece of change I get now. Keep 81 before coppers,all the wheats I find I keep as well. Heck I even have my truck loupe to look at change that I get from stores haha. People look at me like I am crazy when I whip out my loupe in a 7/11 and start zooming haha.
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 Posted 05/18/2015  06:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jdiablo30 to your friends list
I am against hoarding and everything that you see on TV. Coins,i can make a exception for coins though. Ain't nobody have a problem with hoarding coins lol
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 Posted 05/19/2015  06:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Shnug to your friends list
I've never spent a coin on accident, though I have a relevant story.

Once while working at a gas station, my manager asked me to come into his office right after the money truck had arrived with bands of $5's and $1's. He and I had always both competed for silver coins in the registers, but that day he wanted to share. In his hand was $200 in sequential serial # $5 star notes from 2013! In my register, I had laid claim on a $100 star note that came in the cash drawer not too long ago, and had only $100 to spare. I decided I wanted the $5 notes over my $100 star note, so I traded back in the star note to the register, took my remaining $200 to bring home crisp star notes!

Not too long after, I ended up spending all of the star notes to a young couple who were selling silver U.S. coins on craigslist!
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 Posted 05/20/2015  4:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dasaki to your friends list
I'm positive that I accidentally dropped a 1906 Liberty nickel into my bank's coin machine last year, coming home and realizing the nickel I had found 2 days before was nowhere to be found taught me a good lesson on always keeping my keepers on a different surface than my pocket change.
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