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Valued Member
United States
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New Member
 United States
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Thanks everybody for the encouragement, I'm definitely going to do it then. I realize I could get more than 1c each if I tried but it hardly seems worth the effort, at my age I can spare a few bucks, I'll get my money's worth by getting a kick out of imagining the strangers getting a kick out of finding them. I do feel a little bad that they might really believe they were in circulation for 100 years. But no real harm done I guess. If I found an old dime or quarter I'd probaby assume some kid stole them from his parent's coin collection to buy candy. But I doubt a kid would bother to steal pennies only to spend them as pennies, these days. So if I found an old penny I'd probably believe it had been in circulation all that time. Maybe I'll even get crazy and spend my extra "about good" Flying Eagle cent :-) I'll also give some to kids to try to get them started, maybe give them a penny album too. Somebody mentioned doing a "give away". How does that work, is there an official "give away" mechanism on this site? Thanks again for the responses! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Absolutely a great idea. Undamaged nice common IHCs can be sold for 75 cents or so, but that really doesn't amount to much, so give some youngster or CRHer a thrill.  to the CCF! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It isn't any more of a sin than buying coins from Centsles' National Numismatic Certification (NNC) service. I'm fine with the idea of dropping junk Indian cents and V nickels into circulation. |
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 United States
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There is a contest section. John1  |
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United States
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Giving them away to known numismatists is probably preferred to hoping they are found again by random chance. However, a lot could be said about finding stuff in change.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
I rather like the thought that an odd-looking coin might eventually find its way into the hands of someone with a budding collecting instinct.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I return all foreign coins back into circulation that I have received in change,
provided that
they are are of exactly the same physical specification as current circulating coinage.
The Law is a dummy, and the automatic checkout machines at supermarkets couldn't care less.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Why not just send them to "Bobby131313" and he could hand them out at the next Fun Show to the kids  |
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Moderator
Australia
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Few coin collectors would argue that it is a crime to use a coin for the purpose for which it was made.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Slovenia
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I think I'll do the same with my circulated Euro CC duplicates. I traded some for some harder to get circulated examples, but now I'm almost done with the set, so there's no point in keeping doubles.
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08/13/2016 04:13 am
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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While impossible here (there is nothing older than 1990 in circulation), I'd say if something is in a condition which brings no premium after fees, spend it.
Better that than wrapping them in an "old" roll and selling them as "unsearched".
The first may spark an interest in coin collecting in someone - the second will only discourage an existing collector.
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New Member
United States
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Thanks everybody for your feedback, I can tell right away that this is a friendly forum. :-) I appreciate the negative comments about accumulating them and then putting them in rolls and selling as "unsearched". I see a lot of penny rolls on ebay that show a 1909 s at the end and they say "unsearched, could be 1909 S VDB!". And I'm thinking, who on earth would take a penny roll showing a 1909 S and NOT open it to see if it's a VDB before throwing it on ebay? You'd have to be both crazy and stupid. I mean has anybody ever bought one of those and actually found a VDB? My only reservation about spending my indian head extras is the thought of some of them ending up in the trash. For some reason I've always personified coins, once when I was about seven I accidentally dropped a random penny (not a collectible one just a penny) in the large trash can outside our house and it drove me crazy, I searched for it for a long time and couldn't find it and it haunted me forever thinking of that poor little penny all alone in some landfill never being able to fulfill its purpose - poor little coin... :-(. 45 years later I remember like it was yesterday... So the thought of some lonely helpless little indian head pennies finding the same fate is a psychological hurdle I have to get past ... |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I do it too occasionally. I have a bunch of common acid-dated Philadephia Buffalo nickels that I spend sometimes. It's more of a hassle than it's worth trying to sell them. Coins were meant to be spent, after all. Quote:
My only reservation about spending my indian head extras is the thought of some of them ending up in the trash. For some reason I've always personified coins, once when I was about seven I accidentally dropped a random penny (not a collectible one just a penny) in the large trash can outside our house and it drove me crazy, I searched for it for a long time and couldn't find it and it haunted me forever thinking of that poor little penny all alone in some landfill never being able to fulfill its purpose - poor little coin... I feel the same way too. However, the good news is, coins are super hard to destroy, so someone hundreds of years from now might still end up finding it somehow. Edited by coinsearcher83
08/13/2016 12:12 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like to leave some of my inexpensive duplicates (usually foreign) in the penny jar at the check out counter. I don't know where they go, but they don't stay there very long.
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