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I've been learning about coins by going through a mid-20th century collection, and thought I should take a look at an un-curated group of coins. So I picked up a handful of change from that dish by the door, you know the one where change accumulates with the spare keys and what not. It was a couple quarters, eight or so dimes, four nickels, and these eight cents. And every thing seemed nice and normal until I got to the cents, which turned out to be 3 1980s, five '81s, all Philly! That is pretty weird, almost twilight zone-level, right? Normal circulating stuff seems to be mostly from the last three decades, usually Denver (like we don't have a perfectly good mint right next door in SF #128580; &  ). Maybe extra strange for me because the change to zinc cents in '82 signals the end of US coins for me, I lose all interest right there. Freaky. & 🤷  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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That is pretty weird, almost twilight zone-level, right? Care to explain why this is so? 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 to the CCF!
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New Member
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Eight random coins, all from two consecutive years, same mint? Said years and mint being out of the center of the bell curve of commonality? Maybe it happens all the time, I'm new to this.  |
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United States
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Maybe it happens all the time, I'm new to this. We were all new to this at one time.  It is a fun mix.  I suppose finding a nice group of 40 year old 1980s cents today is no different than me finding 40 year old 1940s wheat cents when was a kid in the 1980s. Enjoy it! 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Being from the east coast, finding all Philly coins is par for the course for me. And I still get a fair amount of 1980s pennies in change.
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United States
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Well, I'm assuming that you are in mid to northern Cali (being right next door to SF) I would say that all coins you have are from Philly in that case would be a bit odd..
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Pillar of the Community
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@JLP from north of the border. -  Interesting, very interesting!  Edited by Sharks
12/10/2024 2:52 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You're right. It's "impossible for it to happen by chance.
Odds are you got them all at the same place, possibly not in a single transaction, and they came from someone getting rid on cents he had separated out in the past.
Note also that these are all nice specimens except for some specific problem like staining or damage. Perhaps they were separated out of much larger accumulation because they have problems.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Back in the mid 1960's it was very common to find coins separated in this manner because there were millions of collectors. There are very few today so this is rare.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Wow, that's very surprising!
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Interesting insight, cladking. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Seems to me that someone just decided to roll up and cash in an old penny jar from 'back in the day' as part of a house de-cluttering project. I have done this numerous times and am overdue for it to happen again. It is a time sucking pain anymore because there are few publicly available coin counting machines available, unless you want to pay the percentage extracted by coinstar.. which could easily have been the source for these lightly circulated 1980s cents.
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That sounds pretty reasonable, cladking |
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Posted 12/10/2024 08:23 am
