Coinstar “only” charges 12.9% around here. For quarters and dimes I’ll wrap. For pennies i would probably just let the counter do it. Depends how many i have.
ECON American coins are being thrown away
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packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
I just have my PM to Doc1 trying to figure out what I have.
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Who knows, maybe people just don't like the new DEI quarters and that's carried over to the other denomination coins. Recently I was curious how many circulating U.S. coins there have been with languages other than English and Latin and came up with this list (notice the non-English languages really picked up when they began minting the DEI quarters).
Chamorro
2009 territories quarter (Guam)
Cherokee
2017 Sacagawea Dollar (Sequoyah)
2022 DEI quarter (Wilma Mankiller)
2024 DEI quarter (Celia Cruz)
Hawaiian
2023 DEI quarter (Edith Kanaka'ole)
Osage
2023 DEI quarter (Maria Tallchief)
Samoan
2009 territories quarter (American Samoa)
Spanish
2009 territories quarter (Puerto Rico)
2022 DEI quarter (Nina Otero-Warren)
2023 DEI quarter (Jovita Idar)
I was also curious how many circulating U.S. coins there have been with a non-American featured and could only find one (so far, haven't looked as hard on this):
1892-1893 half dollar (Columbus)
- minted as a legal tender commemorative for the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition but so few sold at the Expo that about two million were released into general circulation
Chamorro
2009 territories quarter (Guam)
Cherokee
2017 Sacagawea Dollar (Sequoyah)
2022 DEI quarter (Wilma Mankiller)
2024 DEI quarter (Celia Cruz)
Hawaiian
2023 DEI quarter (Edith Kanaka'ole)
Osage
2023 DEI quarter (Maria Tallchief)
Samoan
2009 territories quarter (American Samoa)
Spanish
2009 territories quarter (Puerto Rico)
2022 DEI quarter (Nina Otero-Warren)
2023 DEI quarter (Jovita Idar)
I was also curious how many circulating U.S. coins there have been with a non-American featured and could only find one (so far, haven't looked as hard on this):
1892-1893 half dollar (Columbus)
- minted as a legal tender commemorative for the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition but so few sold at the Expo that about two million were released into general circulation
Hermantribe
Veteran Member
Celia Cruz is a salsa singer and not Cherokee
Doc1
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I too go through my change and save it. A couple of weeks ago I found a pre '65 Silver quarter in my change! That's very rare these days, but it does happen.
My change disposition is as follows:
Copper pennies and nickels are saved.
Zinc pennies go into a piggy bank for the grands.
Clad dimes and quarters are spent. I save them as my gun show "mad money." I use them to buy oddball ammunition that I don't reload, small firearms components and perhaps special reloading dies. Most gun shows have vendors selling Silver and Gold, so sometimes I'm able to turn the clad coins into real money. A couple of shows back I found a man selling Morgan and Peace Dollars, so I unloaded the clad coins and added a bit of paper currency to walk away with ten silver dollars at a good price.
As I've explained in the past, Silver Dollars seem to have almost magical properties. I have used them many times to close a deal to my advantage. Let's say that I'm negotiating over the price of an item that's worth roughly $1000. It doesn't really matter what the item is for the purposes of this explanation, but let's say it's a gun at a gun show.
The seller is dreaming and trying to get $1200 for it. We go through a couple of rounds of negotiations - which will probably include me walking away from his table once or twice - and I offer $800. Maybe he comes down to a thousand and the gun is certainly worth that, but I want the best possible price I can get. I up my offer to $900 and while I can see he's getting more interested, he's stuck on $1000. OK...now I walk away again.
Then I'll come back in five or ten minutes and say,"Look, I can go $900 AND throw in a genuine US silver dollar!" With that, I pull the silver dollar out of my pocket and let it ring on his table. Easily more than 50% of the time that'll close the deal for me.
Understand that currently, circulated, common date silver dollars are worth around $30 (and I presently never pay more for them), so what I did was use a $30 coin to get myself an additional $100 discount on a deal. Believe me, this works more often than you might believe.
So yes, Doc1 saves his change, but then he separates it and uses the different types of change for different things.
Best
Doc
My change disposition is as follows:
Copper pennies and nickels are saved.
Zinc pennies go into a piggy bank for the grands.
Clad dimes and quarters are spent. I save them as my gun show "mad money." I use them to buy oddball ammunition that I don't reload, small firearms components and perhaps special reloading dies. Most gun shows have vendors selling Silver and Gold, so sometimes I'm able to turn the clad coins into real money. A couple of shows back I found a man selling Morgan and Peace Dollars, so I unloaded the clad coins and added a bit of paper currency to walk away with ten silver dollars at a good price.
As I've explained in the past, Silver Dollars seem to have almost magical properties. I have used them many times to close a deal to my advantage. Let's say that I'm negotiating over the price of an item that's worth roughly $1000. It doesn't really matter what the item is for the purposes of this explanation, but let's say it's a gun at a gun show.
The seller is dreaming and trying to get $1200 for it. We go through a couple of rounds of negotiations - which will probably include me walking away from his table once or twice - and I offer $800. Maybe he comes down to a thousand and the gun is certainly worth that, but I want the best possible price I can get. I up my offer to $900 and while I can see he's getting more interested, he's stuck on $1000. OK...now I walk away again.
Then I'll come back in five or ten minutes and say,"Look, I can go $900 AND throw in a genuine US silver dollar!" With that, I pull the silver dollar out of my pocket and let it ring on his table. Easily more than 50% of the time that'll close the deal for me.
Understand that currently, circulated, common date silver dollars are worth around $30 (and I presently never pay more for them), so what I did was use a $30 coin to get myself an additional $100 discount on a deal. Believe me, this works more often than you might believe.
So yes, Doc1 saves his change, but then he separates it and uses the different types of change for different things.
Best
Doc
ellsworth848
Contributing Member
Back in 1964 I could buy a gallon of gas with 2 dimes. Today I can still buy a gallon of gas with two of THOSE dimes.
Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I need all the exercise I can get.
My favorite exercise is bending over to pick up a “homeless” coin.
It doesn’t matter if it is a penny or a quarter or whatever, if I see a coin on the ground, I bend over and pick it up.
My favorite exercise is bending over to pick up a “homeless” coin.
It doesn’t matter if it is a penny or a quarter or whatever, if I see a coin on the ground, I bend over and pick it up.
Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Well, I guess I am too cheap to give up any of the coins worth.
I have rolled many rolls of pennies over the years, and took them to my local credit union, which gives me 100% of the value of the rolls.
No way I would pay Coinstar 12.9% to do what I can do for free myself.
West
Senior
Back when people wasn't so butt hurt over the littlest things and the old town Broadway in a small town was mostly still open(now all closed up). Early 90s, my old fashioned mens barber shop on Broadway done something similar.
Except the quarter was glued down in a satigic spot so that 99% of the people who bent down to get it had their butts facing the large windows and all in the barber shop could see.
What a hoot and holler.
Now the barbershop is gone along with 50% of the old Town brick buildings, And the rest are boarded up. It's sickening. Here's a picture from around 2009, the barbershop already gone. Was there in 2005 and first established in the 1950s..
It was that shorter building third or forth down from the old Elks Lodge the big red brick building on the left. Now there all boarded up. One of the small mountain towns southern California has shipped hundreds of homeless people to. Yreka Ca.
Last night I watched a guy that buys storage units and collects the contents and sells it on Ebay and he finds piles of coins doing this, it took him two years to collect a water fountain jug (5 gal) full of mixed coins, it came out to $450 dollars and thats after the coin star machine took its 12%.
LightEcho
Has No Life - Lives on TB
great idea!
You are absolutely right! Sorry for the bad info and thank you for correcting that. I think I copied and pasted from a source that had her wrong and I didn't double-check it even though I raised an eyebrow at "Celia Cruz" being a Cherokee name. I didn't include this one in my list above, but if you consider Braille a foreign language then the 2003 Alabama state quarter, which honors Helen Keller, also has a language other than English or Latin. I leafed through my coin book looking at U.S. circulating coins and didn't find any other circulating coins that featured a non-American. There are several non-Americans on commemoratives, but sooner or later I think mints all over the world put damned near everything possible on commemoratives (which is why I specified circulating coins).
I have a 5-ounce American Samoa “bat” commemorative “quarter.” It’s dated 2021. I couldn’t resist because of Covid. It’s .999 pure silver.
I love those bats! I bought a regular quarter-sized 0.999 silver uncirculated one; the U.S. Mint went from 0.900 silver to 0.999 silver in 2019 for its collector silver coins. As far as I know there are no other circulating coins anywhere in the world featuring bats, and I'd love to know if anyone knows of any.
West
Senior
Here's a few and interesting thread....
And Canada has a couple bat coins, here's two of them...
Canada Released a Black Bat Coin Last Year and You Can Still Buy It! | All Hallows Geek
In 2017 the Royal Canadian Mint released a black rhodium plated silver coin featuring a bat flying in front of the silvery moon and its available for purchase. Check it out and get details on how to buy it.
www.allhallowsgeek.com
BEJEWELED PURPLE BAT 2022 1 oz Pure Silver Maple Leaf Coin
Experience the enchantment of the Bejeweled Purple Bat 2022 1 Oz Pure Silver Maple Leaf Coin. Own a piece of nocturnal elegance that will leave you mesmerized. Buy now!
thecoinshoppe.ca
I've left a zinc penny outside for a year where the rain would hit it (and in the PNW that means a lot of rain) and it never even tarnished all that much, so I have a hard time believing that "dissolve" thing. Now I have seen coins that started to "dissolve" when the copper plating had been breached and the zinc exposed to the elements, but so far none when the copper plating was intact.
I only wanted a regular size one, but they’d all been sold by the time i became aware of their existence. All that was left was a few of the big ones. I had to have something to commemorate the national screwing we took because of “bats.”
Here's a few and interesting thread....
And Canada has a couple bat coins, here's two of them...
Canada Released a Black Bat Coin Last Year and You Can Still Buy It! | All Hallows Geek
In 2017 the Royal Canadian Mint released a black rhodium plated silver coin featuring a bat flying in front of the silvery moon and its available for purchase. Check it out and get details on how to buy it.
BEJEWELED PURPLE BAT 2022 1 oz Pure Silver Maple Leaf Coin
Experience the enchantment of the Bejeweled Purple Bat 2022 1 Oz Pure Silver Maple Leaf Coin. Own a piece of nocturnal elegance that will leave you mesmerized. Buy now!
Many thanks! I look forward to browsing those links and researching which ones circulated and which ones were non-circulating commemoratives. African countries like to put animals on their coins and of course Australians would be lost if they didn't have kangaroos and koalas on their coins, but I thought the only flying mammal has been getting the short end of the circulating coin stick.
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kemosabe
Doooooooooom !
damn, i dunno who's finding all these "junk" coins , but def not around here lol.... I mean between the homeless, the beggars in front of Wally World , and the methheads.... I'd be SHOCKED the towns sampled in the article or whatever, if they weren't somewhere like Bev Hills or some other rich area lol
accountant
Contributing Member
Back when people wasn't so butt hurt over the littlest things and the old town Broadway in a small town was mostly still open(now all closed up). Early 90s, my old fashioned mens barber shop on Broadway done something similar.
Except the quarter was glued down in a satigic spot so that 99% of the people who bent down to get it had their butts facing the large windows and all in the barber shop could see.
What a hoot and holler.
Now the barbershop is gone along with 50% of the old Town brick buildings, And the rest are boarded up. It's sickening. Here's a picture from around 2009, the barbershop already gone. Was there in 2005 and first established in the 1950s..
It was that shorter building third or forth down from the old Elks Lodge the big red brick building on the left. Now there all boarded up. One of the small mountain towns southern California has shipped hundreds of homeless people to. Yreka Ca.
The barbershop may be gone, but is the quarter still there?
A.
West
Senior
No, still have family in the area. Over 90% of the old buildings there are either boarded up or abandoned for the most part.
With a population of around 3500 people in the last decade or two southern California has bussed homeless and now illegals into the area to make up for all the individuals like me and mine that have left, I guess.
Check out the crime rates, this was a small safe mountain town near the boarder of Oregon...
In my youth, I used to love buying a few rolls of coins in various denominations. Back then (mid to late 60’s) you were virtually guaranteed some kind of “haul.” Then I’d add coins to compensate for any I appropriated, re-rolled them, and took them back to the bank. That was really fun on a Saturday.
Taco Salad
Contributing Member
Coin Roll Hunting or CRHing. It's still done by some people although you usually buy a box of rolls at a time. I've done a bit of it myself and believe it or not you do still find silver although not very many pieces per box. I haven't done it in quite a while and likely won't until the economy crashes again.
meezy
I think I can...
Most banks will give you coin roll tubes for free. At least, they used to. I know I've gotten them.
My dad worked for a big regional bank. He'd bring home rolls of coins for us to sort through and try to fill up my penny book, look for special coins, etc. He was a coin collector and I have a big tote filled with his stuff. I need to go through it one of these days. But anyway... like just about everyone else, he'd put his spare change in a can to save it up. He had separate ones for pennies, dimes, and nickels. When it came time to roll it up, and roll up those pennies after we'd gone through them, he taught me how to do it. I still do. When I get enough to fill up, say, one of those cookie tins, I take it to the bank and deposit my $25 or whatever.
When I roll them up, I remember my dad.
Sportsman
Veteran Member
I used to get them too. No longer at any of the banks I use.
This has nothing to do with finding coins on the ground, but in case anyone is interested in the bat coins mentioned above I did some more research on them and found 32 coins, of which only 4 served as actual circulating coins at some point (and one of those was in the 1800s!). Most were minted as non-circulating items purely for collectors and as I said above, sooner or later I think mints all over the world put damned near everything possible on commemorative coins (which to me usually makes them about as interesting as really obscure nose ring collectibles). Several are silver of varying purity and weight, one was made with actual opal chips, one with multi-colored Swarovski crystals, one with ruthenium-plated silver, one with rhodium-plated silver, one with "nordic gold" (which isn't gold at all), and two with actual gold (one being a 0.50 gram gold coin minted by Samoa). Considering the subject is bats, surprisingly only one features a Dracula-like vampire. One is actually shaped like a bat (see below, presumably minted for Batman collectors) and probably stretches what defines a "coin" for most people -- but I'm guessing it is technically a legal tender coin in Samoa just like a Silver Eagle is in the U.S. (Although who in their right mind uses those at face value as everyday coins?).
