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I was watching The Twilight Zone episode Walking Distance and it got me wondering.

How long after a new coin design is put into circulation is the previous coin design overtaken as in terms of encountability.

In the episode a man travels from 1959 back to his childhood of 1934.

Well he goes into a soda shop and has an ice cream which costs 10 cents.

In 1934 the Winged Liberty Dime was in circulation and was replaced in 1946 by the Roosevelt dime.

How likely was he to encounter any Winged Liberty dimes in 1959 since they were replaced 13 years earlier?

Were they still very common to get or semi common or not common to get at all.
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I still get the old Washington quarters with the eagle on the back in my change. 20 years later
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How likely was he to encounter any Winged Liberty dimes in 1959


Plently likely. Those of us who were around in the early 1960s can tell you they were still in circulation then. As were Standing Liberty quarters (not as often) and Walking Liberty halves (very common).

What would really have been a trick worthy of Twilight Zone would be to see Roosevelt dimes in 1934
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So much depends on the times. Back then few people collected coins so all different types were common in change. I remember way, way back when people were still trying to use Large Cents. And coins like Seated Liberty coins of any kind were common. The only problem with that program is just what were the odds of that guy pulling out a Mercury dime back then since his change would more than likely have been all modern.
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Even in the early 70s you could find a Mercury if you handled change. SLQs typically were dateless (I have a roll put together from circulation and none have a date). Franklins and WLHs were not too hard to find if you went to the bank and got a a hundred dollars or so in rolls. People did not hoard it as much though b/c the value was not worth their time to "go all out." It was more just a fun thing to find that "would be worth something some day."
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For the time frame referenced in the OP, you have to realize that in the two decades between 1940 and 1959, 3 of the 4 highest dime mintages were Mercury, not Roosevelt, and 36% of the dimes issued were Mercury.

And the 5 top mintages of halves were all Walking Liberty, not Franklins, and there were more Walkers minted than Franklins in this time period. So there were vast numbers of these types in circulation in 1959 (my recollection from my childhood was that the numbers of Walkers and Franklins were about equal ... and more Roosevelts than Mercuries, but not by a huge amount)
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It depends on a lot of factors, but in the end, people hoard what they perceive as being inherently more valuable.

I was born in 1989; every denomination except the dime has been redesigned at least on one side since I started collecting in the late 90s. With the sole exception of 2009, none of them are "worth" more than face value, and coins going back to the 60s are common in circulation.

The big collecting fad of the 50s/60s helped drive the wheat cents and older denominations from circulation; from responses here in the past, wheat cents were uncommon by the early/mid 70s, and "special" by the 80s, despite the fact that they still exist by the billions today. The perception of an extant market has led to an actual market, which drives coins from circulation.

Now how long will it take for people to perceive memorial cents, pre-2004 nickels, and pre-1999 quarters as worth saving? Anyone's guess, but I'd give them a couple more decades at least.
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