Thanks.
Actually, most are from change or coins that I found on the street.
I was getting lunch the other day and I found that beautiful 69 just sitting on the sidewalk! There were no banks nearby, just how did that 40 year old coin get there in that condition?
I got the 83 in change, and believe it or not, the first wheatie I ever found, and the only steel penny I have ever seen I found on the floor of the subway platform.
If I didn't find this great site first, I wouldn't have known what I found, and I already would have spent it.
Not to mention, I wouldn't even be looking at my pocket change in the first place before I spent it on the vending machine.
Once I started to read the great posts on this site I started looking at change everywhere. Never would have done that otherwise.