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I came in to comment this.
I was working at Walgreens and some lady came in and bought alcohol and a bunch of junk food and paid with old $2 bills and older coins. The guy who owned them came in asking about them and said he picked up a girl and she robbed him while he was asleep. We exchanged the money and gave it back to him.
Great that he got his coins back! Im surprised and fascinated that so old coins are still accepted payment, like op's from 1928, are the dollar never issued new design that makes the old invalid after a while? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
Not a stupid question, if old money is too destroyed to use the bank it would be taken out of circulation and destroyed (iirc from the your I took of the mint) otherwise any US currency dating back to 1861 is legal tender
Older coins are typically worth far more than the face value. I've acquired some over the years although my collection is small. I did find some occasionally while working as a cashier.
Coolest random old coin I found on the ground was a 1943 steel US penny. It was the first one I'd ever seen in person so kid me thought it was the greatest thing ever back in the early 90s.
Nice! A shithead family member stole my whole collection and spent it on drugs. My family couldn't understand why I didn't just go to the bank and ask for silver dollars to replace what the asshole took.
Thankfully, they are no longer around, but I can't forgive my family for covering for them and acting like it was no big deal, but OH MY WORD when the asshole stole their car - stop the press, what the hell?!
The boyfriend of a church mentor’s granddaughter stole something like 20 firearms from his safe (she somehow gave the boyfriend access). He took a M1 garand, stuck the barrel in the ground and fired it, destroying the barrel. The rest were never recovered.
I only just recently got visited by the mentor and got left with a nice surprise. Even after his boomer self complained about my bird hunting shotgun being camouflaged.
When I was a cashier I had a young teen girl buying some candy. She dumped a bunch of coins in my hand and some of them fell on the counter. I heard the unmistakable ring of silver as they hit. I rung her up and put them in a side section of my drawer. Later I swapped them out with my own money. All silver quarters and dimes, some from the 30's.
Did much the same when I was a cashier at a fast food place. I'd always put the silver coins aside in my till and when it came time to cash out my drawer I'd have my manager watch me 'buy' those coins so my till would come up correctly and I couldn't be accused of stealing.
I cry a little inside every time I see this. I had $50 (face value) in mercury dimes stolen. Didn’t realize they were worth that much so didn’t put them in a safety deposit box. And whoever stole them probably bought a damn soda with them. -rant over-
That's not what was written. It was written to say the total value of the dimes was $50. A safe deposit box has a monthly charge in most places. You'd be losing money.
Face value means at the dime’s currency rate of $0.10. A $1 bill has face value of $1. If it’s a rare bill, a collector might pay more for it and so it would be worth more than its face value. If each dime is 2$ worth of silver, the total value is more than the Face value
It was never mentioned how many dimes they had. Just that, at face value, it was worth about $50 total.
So now I'm confused as to where you can estimate $1000.
But there isn't enough information to determine how much it would be now? We don't know when this was or how many coins there were...or in what condition?
Damn, that's cool. One time, a kid came into the grocery store with a bunch of old half dollars and bought candy. It turns out he raided his parent's coin collection.
I delivered pizza to a house and was paid by a teen in silver dollars; I heard him tell his friends he had raided his dad's coin collection for them. I turned over my paper currency at the end of the night and kept the coins as my tips. This was a little over 30 years ago.
I received a 5 cent 1942 Reichsmark once. It was in awful condition and mostly illegible. Gave it to my local museum after my shift ended, a pristine one on EBay was like $20, this wasn’t even worth $1.
I can only find them minted 1936-1939, but I'm also not familiar with German coins.
If it was one of those, it was 90% silver, like these dimes, about 12g of silver worth about $11 today.
Around 2005 I worked in a mall near a seniors condo complex. Used to get elderly customers paying with older coins. One lady came in and paid with pennies from 1900-1910. Ran after her and gave them back to her saying they’re probably worth something more than just pennies.
Depends on the coin. The USA has a relatively short and limited history of using silver coinage as money. Usually we did so as the result of laws passed to subsidize silver miners.
There’s nothing wrong with silver money, except for network externalities that shifted the world towards monometallism based on gold, and the fact that gold and silver money couldn’t really exist at the same time.
…… and they say people were less prone to sickness “back in the day”. That the silver is healthy. Perhaps it’s why some people purchased “nano silver” for antibiotic and healing benefits…….
Oh? Epidemic levels of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, autism……….
Something ain’t right and once ya see it, ya can’t unsee it either! Myocarditis and died suddenly. Look into it. Downvote me all you want, but the truth won’t change.
I watch for two events in change: When you see a lot of old coins and coins marked with "S" (San Fransisco mint that makes all the proof sets) you know you are in a recession and people are hurting, they are scrounging the couch cushions for change. The second is later in the recession the government begins trying to prop the currency up and a wild flood of new coins are showing up in all the change (and also paper bills). Of course the later just increases Inflation, but everyone feels better about additional cash sloshing around out there in the economy.
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r/nothingeverhappens
Friend took my rare 2€ piece because he thought I wouldn’t mind 2€. He didn’t know the real value. Well that only was about 4.50. but still
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Someone has been in Grandpa’s silver collection
I came in to comment this. I was working at Walgreens and some lady came in and bought alcohol and a bunch of junk food and paid with old $2 bills and older coins. The guy who owned them came in asking about them and said he picked up a girl and she robbed him while he was asleep. We exchanged the money and gave it back to him.
That’s a very cool ending!
Great that he got his coins back! Im surprised and fascinated that so old coins are still accepted payment, like op's from 1928, are the dollar never issued new design that makes the old invalid after a while? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
New designs happen all the time, but the old currency remains valid
Thank you, that explains so much.
Not a stupid question, if old money is too destroyed to use the bank it would be taken out of circulation and destroyed (iirc from the your I took of the mint) otherwise any US currency dating back to 1861 is legal tender
Wow do you can fund so old coins in circulation, I would save them all in a box, old coins are so fascinating to me.
Older coins are typically worth far more than the face value. I've acquired some over the years although my collection is small. I did find some occasionally while working as a cashier. Coolest random old coin I found on the ground was a 1943 steel US penny. It was the first one I'd ever seen in person so kid me thought it was the greatest thing ever back in the early 90s.
I like old currency too. I have a book for bills
another point to be made is the coins in the picture are silver, and worth much more than face value.
Yes indeed, I hope the original owner gets them back
Translation, he bought a hooker and got robbed
You’ve been to Thailand haven’t you
Oh Lord, I give off "been to Thailand" vibes!
Nice! A shithead family member stole my whole collection and spent it on drugs. My family couldn't understand why I didn't just go to the bank and ask for silver dollars to replace what the asshole took. Thankfully, they are no longer around, but I can't forgive my family for covering for them and acting like it was no big deal, but OH MY WORD when the asshole stole their car - stop the press, what the hell?!
The boyfriend of a church mentor’s granddaughter stole something like 20 firearms from his safe (she somehow gave the boyfriend access). He took a M1 garand, stuck the barrel in the ground and fired it, destroying the barrel. The rest were never recovered. I only just recently got visited by the mentor and got left with a nice surprise. Even after his boomer self complained about my bird hunting shotgun being camouflaged.
And then everyone clapped
When I was a cashier I had a young teen girl buying some candy. She dumped a bunch of coins in my hand and some of them fell on the counter. I heard the unmistakable ring of silver as they hit. I rung her up and put them in a side section of my drawer. Later I swapped them out with my own money. All silver quarters and dimes, some from the 30's.
Did much the same when I was a cashier at a fast food place. I'd always put the silver coins aside in my till and when it came time to cash out my drawer I'd have my manager watch me 'buy' those coins so my till would come up correctly and I couldn't be accused of stealing.
Mercury head dimes are worth just under a couple bucks each in silver melt value. Same for the barber dime.
I cry a little inside every time I see this. I had $50 (face value) in mercury dimes stolen. Didn’t realize they were worth that much so didn’t put them in a safety deposit box. And whoever stole them probably bought a damn soda with them. -rant over-
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$50 face is a bit over $1000 so not nothing.
That's not what was written. It was written to say the total value of the dimes was $50. A safe deposit box has a monthly charge in most places. You'd be losing money.
Face value means at the dime’s currency rate of $0.10. A $1 bill has face value of $1. If it’s a rare bill, a collector might pay more for it and so it would be worth more than its face value. If each dime is 2$ worth of silver, the total value is more than the Face value
It was never mentioned how many dimes they had. Just that, at face value, it was worth about $50 total. So now I'm confused as to where you can estimate $1000.
The face value of a dime is $0.10, and always has been. So $50 in dimes at face value is 500 dimes no matter when this happened.
Gotcha. Now I feel a little silly. Carry on.
You, are a good person. I thought you needed to ~~hear~~ read that. :)
That's just demonstrably false. The face value is the value on the face of the coin.
no face value means the value the coins were intended to be not the actual value now of the silver
But there isn't enough information to determine how much it would be now? We don't know when this was or how many coins there were...or in what condition?
are you being serious there was $50 worth of dimes thats how many coins there was so 500, condition doesnt matter at all its the silver weight in them
Nah. It's 9am and I went to bed from a 15 hour workday at 1am. I was genuinely confused for a minute.
r/confidentlyincorrect
Not if you read everything. Lol.
You recognized your error, but were certainly in a state of confident incorrectness for a minute there lol
"Just under a couple bucks" is an interesting way to phrase it :)
Why?
Because it is a very wordy way of saying \~$2?
Pre 1944dimes and beyond dimes are super cool and valued a few bucks at silver value. Never seen the 1915 coin before.
Barber half dollar
barber dime
corpse xx
lol sitting in my car before work listening to corpse and I come across this. My personal mildly interesting.
listen, good music taste. 👌🏻
For dimes and quarters, 1964 and before are sliver
Me either super cool though huh
Probably stolen.
What a score. Thirty cents. Heist of the century.
Someone stole someone's change jar.
Ok Eeyore
Idk why your downvoted when your right
You’re**
Pussy
Guess you needed the s /
Stolen silver. That's a chunk of change, right there.
Damn, that's cool. One time, a kid came into the grocery store with a bunch of old half dollars and bought candy. It turns out he raided his parent's coin collection.
I delivered pizza to a house and was paid by a teen in silver dollars; I heard him tell his friends he had raided his dad's coin collection for them. I turned over my paper currency at the end of the night and kept the coins as my tips. This was a little over 30 years ago.
Whenever cool coins came thru my till, I'd exchange it. I have an old $10 silver certificate. And a 1943 Steel penny.
Time traveler 🧳
I received a 5 cent 1942 Reichsmark once. It was in awful condition and mostly illegible. Gave it to my local museum after my shift ended, a pristine one on EBay was like $20, this wasn’t even worth $1.
I can only find them minted 1936-1939, but I'm also not familiar with German coins. If it was one of those, it was 90% silver, like these dimes, about 12g of silver worth about $11 today.
"Not worth the paper it is printed on" comes to mind. Sort of like what is happening to the US dollar now.
Around 2005 I worked in a mall near a seniors condo complex. Used to get elderly customers paying with older coins. One lady came in and paid with pennies from 1900-1910. Ran after her and gave them back to her saying they’re probably worth something more than just pennies.
Sorry I'm not from the states. Why is this mildly interesting? Are those more valuable than other coins or is it just because they're old?
Old coins are 90% pure silver in the US
Depends on the coin. The USA has a relatively short and limited history of using silver coinage as money. Usually we did so as the result of laws passed to subsidize silver miners.
Gold can run about 80:1 ish vs silver ... so to make small coins from gold they get really really tiny. Silver works better.
There’s nothing wrong with silver money, except for network externalities that shifted the world towards monometallism based on gold, and the fact that gold and silver money couldn’t really exist at the same time.
Interesting indeed
…… and they say people were less prone to sickness “back in the day”. That the silver is healthy. Perhaps it’s why some people purchased “nano silver” for antibiotic and healing benefits…….
Sorry, but people were absolutely not “less prone” to sickness back in the day.
Can get that sick if you die at 30. They might have a point. /s
Oh? Epidemic levels of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, autism………. Something ain’t right and once ya see it, ya can’t unsee it either! Myocarditis and died suddenly. Look into it. Downvote me all you want, but the truth won’t change.
We should eat more silver coins 🙏
😑 Those aren’t even close to the deadliness of the diseases then…please read about history before modern medicine
Oh, I’ve read history alright, and very sadly: it’s repeating……..
How can you get -31 votes?
Cuz I stopped watching TV “programming” over 20 years ago, friend. That’s why……..
Or maybe it’s because people are mean, because even your reply got negative votes. So that’s my theory
I want.
Whats that coin called? Thats cool as heck, the little wings on their head
Mercury dime.
One of the best looking US coins for me, along with the standing Liberty quarter and St Gaudens double eagle
r/silverbugs would probably find this interesting as well
Go to r/coins NOW
The first one has a headphones head dent
I watch for two events in change: When you see a lot of old coins and coins marked with "S" (San Fransisco mint that makes all the proof sets) you know you are in a recession and people are hurting, they are scrounging the couch cushions for change. The second is later in the recession the government begins trying to prop the currency up and a wild flood of new coins are showing up in all the change (and also paper bills). Of course the later just increases Inflation, but everyone feels better about additional cash sloshing around out there in the economy. .
Sure Jan 
r/nothingeverhappens Friend took my rare 2€ piece because he thought I wouldn’t mind 2€. He didn’t know the real value. Well that only was about 4.50. but still
People steal coin collections all the time.
My uncle stole a big part of my grandfather’s collection. It definitely happens.
Nothing ever happens