Ever Circulate A Coin By Accident?

joeturbo26: Hadrian tetradrachm, Alexandria, Nilus reclining reverse, good fine condition. Nothing spectacular.

Heard this somewhere else:
"I made you, and I bought you". Not quite the same, But I liked the idea, anyway.

There are so many things to check when it comes to pocket change that I never spend coins until I've had a chance to check it. Sometimes I have more change than time, but give everything a cursoury check knowing full well that I'll miss a lot. So yes I probably turned loose coins that I should have kept. The only saving grace is that I don't know that I did it.

Kinda...almost. I had a couple of gold plated State Quarters and SBA's that I had accidentally thrown into the change jar. Granted, they aren't worth much above face, but I was wanting to give them to a YN. When I went to cash in the change at the local bank, I noticed the teller wasn't so smooth about setting those aside (she had to write down what the coin counting machine said, then manually add the gold plated coins). When I noticed she had set them aside, I asked for them back. In a way I was a bit annoyed as they knew I worked at a coin shop, collected and had been a customer there for 18 years so I was irritated that she put them aside for herself or someone else without asking me about them first.

Usually if I'm really broke I raid the 2x2 flips for BUs that I'd set aside in hopes they'd be valuable and cash in the worst one-fourth or one-third of the bunch. And as a child I would naturally have to cash in my collection from time to time (I never collected proofs or silver back then) for candy and hobbies. Paper money - forget it! Occasionally you'd get a $20 from the 1970s, but that was a lot of money back then - I would have to spend it.

The only coins that were saved from that era were foreign coins which I still have. I think that aspect right there makes "darkside" collecting very important to YNs to start up a coin collection.

the worst I have done happend about a week and a half ago. I had to cash in my entire coin collection but it was for a good cause and since I got everything out of circulation I did not lose much. in it were 1 2009 nickel and 2 2009 dimes and since the production on them were so low they were worth over face on them. now the one I did on purpose just to see the reaction was I spent a mercery dime at a gas station and the cashier looks at it and says we dont take canandian and I said look at the back it says united states of america on it. on my last trip ever to that gas station I spent some bills that had some writing on them and the cashier hoes you need to stop doing this and I said it was not me and as I was walking out since I knew I would never be going back I cussed her out.

I've definitely found silver coins, put them in my pocket and either lost them or spent them before I made it home. Not saying it happens often or even a lot. But *sigh* it has happened...