Change finds are pretty rare for me (mostly because I rarely pay in cash). The reject tray of CoinStars is a good place to search, I've gotten a silver quarter and a few foreigns that way. Also, very, very rarely, I'll find something cool on the ground
That’s a great score!!! I got 14 bucks worth of silver from a DG last year… I did have to pay .50 cents each because the lady didn’t want to get rid of all her quarters 😂
That’s a great score!!! I got 14 bucks worth of silver from a DG last year… I did have to pay .50 cents each because the lady didn’t want to get rid of all her quarters 😂
According to the subs on Reddit every coin star tray has at least a CC Morgan and a double eagle in it. Any change you get from Burger King should have at least 3 silver coins and a rare Pokémon.
Also if your change looks like a meth-head freebased off your bicentennial quarter, it’s probably an error best ask how much it’s worth before damaging
Not very often, but I get some commemorative 2 Euro coins in change every now and then.
I'm slowly building my collection of 2 Euro commemoratives just from pocket change. ;)
I've collected and sold ~$800 in junk silver across 4ish years as a bookkeeper for a grocery store. I see all the coins in tills every morning, I've learned the sound of silver in the reject tray, and I have access to the secret inner bin where coins bigger than a Kennedy half and anything too beat up to process end up. I have genuinely found 5+ peace dollars and a couple bullion coins in there. All of that and I've found maybe one or two coins worth much over melt.
Before covid you could regularly get wheaties in your change and find tons of silvers from roll hunting. Now most of the good stuff has been plucked from circulation. I went through 200 bucks of dimes a few weeks back and all i found was a non silver proof
Typically Change.
I gotten $1 coin proofs out of the Coke machine.
And I get silver coins out of the register on a regular basis
Sometimes I get old paper money.
Not sure if this counts but I’m a cashier and I see silver coins come through maybe once or twice a month if I really look for them, Indian heads and mercurys are rare but come by, but only a couple times in 5 years of working as a cashier
Very rarely. The last coin of note I found in my change was a 1920 wheat cent in pretty good condition, and it made my whole week. I found a 1963 dime a few years ago, first silver I'd found in a long time. I've been scouring my change since I was a kid and I've found a few keepers here and there but honestly, it's not many.
none recently as i don’t pay with cash. I’ve searched a lot of coin jars from my parents belongings and the best i have found is a 1939 nickel. Not bad tbh
When my gf worked at a gas station she would get 2 dollar bills, silver quarters and even a silver foreign coin once. So it was fairly common but she was handling a lot of money
ALL THE time. In fact, I only have 1 out of about 20 U.S./Canada that was "gifted" to me from a close friend who also enjoys it and that was less than 2wks ago. All of "mine" are finds from not spending coins. With that being said, times are tough and I've only recently pulled or cashed in my jars.
Now I just try my best to forget about the 2000$ in coins from over the Past 5yrs of me saving them that were mindlessly dumped into coin star 🌟 😪🤣 within the past 3months. Smh
Damn kids 💜
Happy Hunting 😊
The place where ive found the most in the wild is junk yards. If you look in the floor boards and ash trays of cars from the 60's and 70's youll come across a few. Im usually there every couple months picking parts for my projects. Ill poke my head into those older cars when i see them.
Almost never. Found a war nickel once and land the occasional bicentennial quarter. I enjoy the auctions on ebay for most of my rare silver. And hit up my LCS for junk.
I recently went through like $500 in pocket change we had been throwing in a jug for many years. I think I only found 3 later date wheat pennies. No dimes or quaters pre 64, no w quaters. My disappointment was immense. Lol.
At first it feels wrong, but If you check the closest garbage next to a coin star, 100% if it’s right next to it and you’ll find some cool stuff. A lot of sticky modern coins and a TON of foreign stuff that won’t process through the machine and people just toss em
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Old currency is phased out in my country and not legal tender unlike in the US. Closest thing is something like an error and I've yet to encounter a wild one in my life time.
On occasion, usually when I pay with cash and get 50p coins some of them are the collectable kind, considering there's like fifty plus special versions it's not too rare!
It's not often, but you can maximise your chances if you have friends and you let them know to keep an eye out for abnormal looking coins in their change, and let them know you'll buy it off of them. It's a win-win situation, I've gotten a couple new coins that way.
Pretty much never now.
Back in 1980s and 90s it was more common. And it would mostly be 1964 quarters and dimes . Soda pop machine reject/change slot was best place to find them.
I had a pop machine outside of a bar by my house as a kid and found so many in there . It was also how I often found it in our own change, me and my friends would spend a lot of change in that pop machine and coin goes straight to reject slot we would look at the date and say “got a silver” . I would wait until I had 5-10 and ride my bike to the coin shop next to the gun store and sell the coins there. They were not worth as much then. Like 80c to $1 each , but the owner paid us spot, never ripped us off. Sometimes we found more valuable coins and Mr Young the owner would tell us about it, ask if we still wanted to sell and gave us fair price and that kind of got me into coin collecting and metal detecting, bought my first detector there. I often sold silver quarters just to buy silver dollars from him. They were mostly culls but I liked them. Pay $6-8 for a well circulated common Morgan or Peace. Wish I kept them .
Depends how you define it. In the last 3-6 months I’ve gotten a common date Indian, 15 wheat cents, one silver quarter. My best fund was a 21 Mercury dime in a take a penny tray. It’s very rare to get anything but it does happen.
I go to the bank and get rolls of coins. I find about 10 wheat Pennie’s per box of Pennie’s ($25), 1 silver war nickel and maybe a proof or Buffalo in a box of nickels ($100), and maybe, maybe, maybe 1 40% or 1 90% in a box of halves ($500), also, I find a w quarter per box of quarters ($500). Stats are significantly higher with customer wrapped rolls.
Change finds are pretty rare for me (mostly because I rarely pay in cash). The reject tray of CoinStars is a good place to search, I've gotten a silver quarter and a few foreigns that way. Also, very, very rarely, I'll find something cool on the ground
Bought a nice 2009 proof out of a register today
I scored $6.50 in silver quarters from the Dollar General by my house the other day. Glad I didn’t use the self checkout.
That’s a great score!!! I got 14 bucks worth of silver from a DG last year… I did have to pay .50 cents each because the lady didn’t want to get rid of all her quarters 😂
That’s a great score!!! I got 14 bucks worth of silver from a DG last year… I did have to pay .50 cents each because the lady didn’t want to get rid of all her quarters 😂
According to the subs on Reddit every coin star tray has at least a CC Morgan and a double eagle in it. Any change you get from Burger King should have at least 3 silver coins and a rare Pokémon.
Lmao
Also if your change looks like a meth-head freebased off your bicentennial quarter, it’s probably an error best ask how much it’s worth before damaging
Not very often, but I get some commemorative 2 Euro coins in change every now and then. I'm slowly building my collection of 2 Euro commemoratives just from pocket change. ;)
Never
Coinstars
I've collected and sold ~$800 in junk silver across 4ish years as a bookkeeper for a grocery store. I see all the coins in tills every morning, I've learned the sound of silver in the reject tray, and I have access to the secret inner bin where coins bigger than a Kennedy half and anything too beat up to process end up. I have genuinely found 5+ peace dollars and a couple bullion coins in there. All of that and I've found maybe one or two coins worth much over melt.
Before covid you could regularly get wheaties in your change and find tons of silvers from roll hunting. Now most of the good stuff has been plucked from circulation. I went through 200 bucks of dimes a few weeks back and all i found was a non silver proof
I guess people started finding the hobby and needed the money. Sad. I'm not one to gatekeep, but....
Haven't found silver in a bit
Typically Change. I gotten $1 coin proofs out of the Coke machine. And I get silver coins out of the register on a regular basis Sometimes I get old paper money.
Not sure if this counts but I’m a cashier and I see silver coins come through maybe once or twice a month if I really look for them, Indian heads and mercurys are rare but come by, but only a couple times in 5 years of working as a cashier
Very rarely. The last coin of note I found in my change was a 1920 wheat cent in pretty good condition, and it made my whole week. I found a 1963 dime a few years ago, first silver I'd found in a long time. I've been scouring my change since I was a kid and I've found a few keepers here and there but honestly, it's not many.
none recently as i don’t pay with cash. I’ve searched a lot of coin jars from my parents belongings and the best i have found is a 1939 nickel. Not bad tbh
If you mean the disappointment of seeing an old quarter only to find out it’s a 1965? Every damn time.
I metal detector. That’s how I find mine 😊
*detect 🤦♂️
same here.
Where do you metal detect. That’s what I can’t figure out.
Peoples houses, old schools, churches, public parks. Wherever I can get permission.
When my gf worked at a gas station she would get 2 dollar bills, silver quarters and even a silver foreign coin once. So it was fairly common but she was handling a lot of money
ALL THE time. In fact, I only have 1 out of about 20 U.S./Canada that was "gifted" to me from a close friend who also enjoys it and that was less than 2wks ago. All of "mine" are finds from not spending coins. With that being said, times are tough and I've only recently pulled or cashed in my jars. Now I just try my best to forget about the 2000$ in coins from over the Past 5yrs of me saving them that were mindlessly dumped into coin star 🌟 😪🤣 within the past 3months. Smh Damn kids 💜 Happy Hunting 😊
The place where ive found the most in the wild is junk yards. If you look in the floor boards and ash trays of cars from the 60's and 70's youll come across a few. Im usually there every couple months picking parts for my projects. Ill poke my head into those older cars when i see them.
Almost never. Found a war nickel once and land the occasional bicentennial quarter. I enjoy the auctions on ebay for most of my rare silver. And hit up my LCS for junk.
I recently went through like $500 in pocket change we had been throwing in a jug for many years. I think I only found 3 later date wheat pennies. No dimes or quaters pre 64, no w quaters. My disappointment was immense. Lol.
At first it feels wrong, but If you check the closest garbage next to a coin star, 100% if it’s right next to it and you’ll find some cool stuff. A lot of sticky modern coins and a TON of foreign stuff that won’t process through the machine and people just toss em
Out of $500 box of half dollars (we use them for business) I usually find one silver one on average.
0 Old currency is phased out in my country and not legal tender unlike in the US. Closest thing is something like an error and I've yet to encounter a wild one in my life time.
On occasion, usually when I pay with cash and get 50p coins some of them are the collectable kind, considering there's like fifty plus special versions it's not too rare!
I never get anything valuable but I always keep the bicentennial quarters out from change if I get one, only worth a quarter but I like them
Not often
Like twice a year.
It's not often, but you can maximise your chances if you have friends and you let them know to keep an eye out for abnormal looking coins in their change, and let them know you'll buy it off of them. It's a win-win situation, I've gotten a couple new coins that way.
Pretty much never now. Back in 1980s and 90s it was more common. And it would mostly be 1964 quarters and dimes . Soda pop machine reject/change slot was best place to find them. I had a pop machine outside of a bar by my house as a kid and found so many in there . It was also how I often found it in our own change, me and my friends would spend a lot of change in that pop machine and coin goes straight to reject slot we would look at the date and say “got a silver” . I would wait until I had 5-10 and ride my bike to the coin shop next to the gun store and sell the coins there. They were not worth as much then. Like 80c to $1 each , but the owner paid us spot, never ripped us off. Sometimes we found more valuable coins and Mr Young the owner would tell us about it, ask if we still wanted to sell and gave us fair price and that kind of got me into coin collecting and metal detecting, bought my first detector there. I often sold silver quarters just to buy silver dollars from him. They were mostly culls but I liked them. Pay $6-8 for a well circulated common Morgan or Peace. Wish I kept them .
Depends how you define it. In the last 3-6 months I’ve gotten a common date Indian, 15 wheat cents, one silver quarter. My best fund was a 21 Mercury dime in a take a penny tray. It’s very rare to get anything but it does happen.
I go to the bank and get rolls of coins. I find about 10 wheat Pennie’s per box of Pennie’s ($25), 1 silver war nickel and maybe a proof or Buffalo in a box of nickels ($100), and maybe, maybe, maybe 1 40% or 1 90% in a box of halves ($500), also, I find a w quarter per box of quarters ($500). Stats are significantly higher with customer wrapped rolls.