Anybody Else Throw "Goodies" Into Circulation?

I've always wondered if there were folks doing this, maybe 'seeding' - I've herd of coin clubs doing it, trying to raise interest in the hobby. It seems like, from the threads that I've seen, just using halves and dollars in day-to-day transactions might qualify. I don't think it's pointless at all, especially if you find it fun to do...

you dont want to throw any to australia do you?
hahahaha

Yeah I throw goodies into circulation all the time. I like to keep my collection small enough for just one book. Heck I even threw silver into circulation at times but not now due to to many people sending them in to get melted. It seems that kids are most fascinated with foreign coins than anything. Every once in awhile Ill give some foreign coins to kids. If I gave the kids silver coins then the parents would take over and keep them for themselves. To many greedy people in this world anymore.

I've tossed a few horrible wheats, Ike dollars, $2 notes and other stuff back into the wild.

I too to that a real lot. As I accumlate change around the house, eventually I take that to a bank. I always throw in a few Wheats. I love spending half dollars at flea markets and some neighborhood stores. It is fun to watch the look on faces when you hand them half dollars.

When I worked at the bank I used to give rusted steel wheaties out to kids that were coin collectors at the bank, they were estatic since they had never been able to get them in circulation. I also had been saving 3 1934 series hundreds in my teller box waiting to get enough spare cash to buy them out, but one day my box ran low on money so the head teller forced me to give them out to a customer who could care less what the year on them was.

-XoG

I reintroduced some rough silver certificates back into the wild yesterday.

I always like the look on kids faces when you hand them an Ike dollar!!

Almost as funny as when I tell kids that I used to watch B&W TV. They ask what that is? Priceless!

KK