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Meanwhile back to the topic. You really have to be careful asking relatives or close friends for coins. I've done that for years now. The one thing I found out is that when they give you a jar or can or something full of coins and it isn't counted, there is usually a little wondering if you sort of kept out something extra. Like told them you counted it all and there was $55.93 in there but nothing you could use. OK so maybe you found a coin worth a few thousand and just aren't saying anything. Or there was actually $58.74 and your keeping the rest. Or even if you do find something worth a few cents extra, they will bring that up for years now. Can you bring the food for the picnic. REMEMEBER when I gave you that rare coin?
Then too at work I've received piles of coins from other countries. I've tried telling them I only collect US coins but here is some of ours anyway. Might be worth a fortune.
One guy I know told me about a large pile of coins he has been collecting for years. He puts any coins he finds on the ground, a bar's floor, stores floor, etc in this jar and has been doing this for years. Handed me the jar and said I could keep whatever I wanted free. Most were now stuck together, slime all over them, dirt, etc. So I handed him the jar the next day and said nothing in there for me. I was afraid to even touch them.

I have had good luck with coins from co-workers. I got 3300, 2700, 1900, 2200 cents at different times from different friends at work. Nothing really exciting but have gotten quite a few wheat's. Did get lots of copper cents that are now rolled and put away for whatever fate befalls them. About a 150 rolls sorted by date. Did buy a partial set of Buffalo nickles that was kind of nice. Had a nice 21-s. A couple times a month someone will give me a silver dime or Wheat penny or something they think I might like.

Quite often someone will bring a coin or coins that Dad left them and they just want to show it somebody that will know what it is and appreciate it with them. That's always nice. Its fun to share with other people and have them share their coins with you.

I have to admit, it bugs me when I see friends/family members spending or cashing in coins with even bothering to check them first I suppose from their point of view (as a non-collector) money is all the same, so it's hard for them to contemplate the idea of a coin actually being worth more than its face value.

I don't even trust some relatives with their own money.