The oldest I got in change was a 1937 quarter a couple years ago at a convenience store after buying some mints. I even got a 1947 quarter in the same transaction. Total kid in a candy store kinda moment haha
I can't remember specific dates. But I've found two Buffalo Nickels (~1920s-1930s), a Mercury Dimes (40s), and plenty of wheat pennies from all five decades. Most of these were found CRH though, so not sure if they can really count as circulation.
Verweis : "tony_k_1965"Unfortunately in the UK we won't find anything older than 1971 due to decimalisation, unless it's a foreign coin of very similar size slipped in there by mistake or purposely to fraud someone of their correct change.
The U.K. is a numismatists' paradise - unlike here in New Zealand, which has been a numismatists' desert since late 2006.
Ignore the old 20c, the two golden coins are the oldest you will find in circulation now. Most are a bit more worn than this. Yes 31 years in circulation.
You can find 1990 and 1991 dated $1 and $2 quite a lot as some 50 million $1 and 40 million were issued in those years. About 100 million more since then. NZ issued coins slowly most of the times, but even more so in the 1990s. The next date of $1 after 1991 is not until 2000! For $2 its 1997, but the coins were slightly different, got stuck in vending machines and were recalled, so that makes 1998 that next viable year. It is also a scarce year and 1999 is the first common year.
1991 coins
1997 Top left, the 5c and 10c are no longer used.
Oldest for our steel cents value coins - you can still get the 20 and 50 in this condition, but most of the 10c have darkened.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I find some really unusual things in change, especially strange because I don't really sift change or receive large amounts of change, I just do most daily business in cash and notice when I get something visibly different. Besides coins of several Asian countries such as Thailand and India, in the last few months I've found a 1911 Liberty nickel (G-VG, looks like it's circulated for 110 years) and 1929 Canadian penny (VF-XF, not bad!). I don't find wheaties nearly as often as when I was a kid but they still turn up now and then; oldest US penny I've found circulating was a 1909.
I will try to clarify what you would probably find in the Czech Republic (I can never do it in one sentence but clearly - Komensky deviation)
After the exemplary division of Czechoslovakia, each country created its own coins and banknotes. Slovakia switched to the euro after a short time.
The Czech Republic has had the same currency since the division in 1993, So older coins and bills are not in circulation. But you can come across relatively rare coins and banknotes in large financial bonuses ( not to underestimate the East Slavic currency), Rare grades are usually those where there is a smaller number of coins issued.
And now today's demonstration of the contents of the wife and son's wallet: And now today's demonstration of the contents of the wife and son's wallet. son's 10 CZK is separate- 2020
Sometimes I ask my little grandson to look and find something so the household members dump the contents: It has even colored yellows are rare, blue rarely and otherwise only very nice preserved.
there are some rarities? When you visit Prague after a pandemic - disgust, you will find it in circulation.
These are piles in a box (out of collection)-sometimes I pick it up and return it to circulation, but usually I have a shipment, sometimes I accumulate a lot of the same grade and so I shrink the piles:
So as always in a nutshell, simply and for understanding.
Ivan
The oldest coin I've received in my change was an Australian 1942 sixpence - same size as our five cent coin (or close enough that it doesn't matter too much).
Mimael - that is great, I can see coins are popular in Czechia and they have some real face value too. 50 Korun is about $3.50 our money and around $2 USD!
Noticed you have a millenium 20 Korun as well (I have one in a mintset).
Here is what an accumulation of our money looks like!
We have $2 (Gold large), $1 (Gold small), 50c large silver, 20 cent scalloped small silver, 10c Bronze.
As for dates the images show how skewed they are. First one is $2 coins, the huge pile is 1990, then 1991, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, Bottom row - 2003, 04, 05, 08, 11, 14, 15 and 19
Second photo is dollars - 1990 (2 piles), 1991, 2000, 2002, 03, 04, Bottom row, 2005, 08, 10, 13, 15 and 19. As you can see 1990 saw massive mintages of these coins (40 and 30 million) and other years were 1 - 12 million.
For modern coins its even more skewed, here we see 50 cents, 2006 (70 million 3 piles), 2009 (20 million), 2014 million), 2015 - 12 million, 2015 - 10 million (Not including any Anzac coins which are never seen in criculation), 2016 and 2018 (6 million each). Even more interesting is most 2006 coins are still very shiny after 15 years.
Last photo is our lowly 10 cents (Worth around 1.50 Kc) - this coin was minted in many more years than the others as it seems very needed for some reason.
2006 (120 million), 2007 (A rare year - just 15 mil), 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 (All later years are 10 - 30 mil -low for this low face value coin).
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Verweis : "Moneytane"Mimael - that is great, I can see coins are popular in Czechia and they have some real face value too. 50 Korun is about $3.50 our money and around $2 USD!
Noticed you have a millenium 20 Korun as well (I have one in a mintset).
Have a nice day on a remote paradise on earth. Yes, coins have value in our country ,,Moneytane,, it is always a question of how much you have to work and what you can buy for those coins , what is the shopping basket of a working person for an hourly wage.
In net wages per hand, these are two 50-crown coins per hour after taxes and levies. You know I have tables for 13,14,15,16 centuries somewhere how much a carpenter, a bricklayer, a tailor made denarius per day of work.
And believe me, not much has changed here in the heart of Europe in a thousand years- somehow a physically working person always has it from hand to mouth.
A little humor in my depiction of current inflation:
brass mortar for spices before inflation compared to the size of 50 CZK and today.
Also the value is measured, example here:
how do my favorite 50 crowns balance and prevails nicely but with a token:
Not that the Czechs are so modest, we will issue a higher nominal coin:
You know, it's important what you can buy for the 50 CZK here is a pre-Christmas poster to show:
High inflation and energy prices are reducing our purchasing power. You know, my colleague I saw a lot of pain and misery abroad after the wars I'm not complaining because I know a lot of people and nations are worse off. So at least I took a good picture - I wish you nice days.
The minimum wage here is $20 per hour, but our left wing government has increased it severely since 2017. In 2012 it was $8.90 an hour!
Average wages -
Unemployment Beneficiary - $220 a week + $70 accomm supplement
Solo mother - $350 a week plus accom sup and $100 per child.
Labourer, Barista, Childcare, cleaner, newspaper deliverer etc - $800 a week if full time (Many people work under 40 hours a week) I get $400 after tax for 23 hours a week.
Skilled worker - $1000 a week
Profession - Teacher, nurse, etc - $900 to $2000 a week dependent on rank and experience
High paid business types - Salaries $100 to 400k ($2 - $8k a week)
High ranking CEOs (Company heads) - $600k - $5 million
Most people work less than 40 hours a week and there is little overtime which is usually paid at STANDARD rates now thanks to neoliberal capitalists in the 1990s and early 2010s eroding workers rights.
30% of the population is on minimum wage and the lowest tax is 14%, highest is only 38% - NZ is very unequal with mostly rich white and poor brown minority.
In addition to tax, most pay 3 - 8% of their wage into Kiwisaver a govt superannuation plan, pensions are low only $500 a fortnight for single and about $700 per married couple.
Food costs on average $110 per week for an adult and $75 for a child. Quality of food ranges greatly. You can buy a bottle of fizzy drink for $1 at some supermarkets, yet water is $3 and milk is $2.90 a litre.
Meat - Chicken - $12 a kg depending on cut, Beef - chuck stewing steak $15kg, sirloin $50kg, Fish is very expensive figure $25 - $50 for good fish and $12 for rubbish like hoki, warehou and Vietnamese bassa a kg.
Veges - varies - Apples $2 - $10kg dependent on season, Cabbage - $2 - $5 a head, Beer average $2 per bottle or can - $18 for cheap gumboot stuff a dozen, $25+ for premium brand and as much as $8 for an batch brewed IPA, Yuppie boutique brewery bottle of 600ml.
Crisps - $1.50 to $5 a packet depending on quality and where you buy them from - cheap MSG storebrand chippies cost $1.50 at supermarket, high quality kettle chips are over $5.
Mc Donalds - $12 - $15 a standard combo of burger, fries and drink (Very expensive for what it is).
Petrol - $2.60 a litre standard, $2.90 for super 98, $2 for diesel, all petrol is unleaded.
Houses - $1 million on average, $300k in poor area a do upper, $5 - $20+ million for mega mansions in exclusive areas.
I hope this helps Mimael!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Unfortunately, It won't help MIMAEL, But thank you very much for the information which -Confirm the primacy of your land in the best living conditions ( we know this information in the table of life guarantees )
colleague keep the direction -and really only elect people to lead the country to security of life ( Most can envy you)
Interesting are sometimes also such details that where there are young cats girls at the lead there is a better life.
Mimael is not the one who would suffer from shortages, he has devoted his whole life to work and family and leads a modest life in traditions.
I am interested in this life statistic and most of all I feel sorry for the people who live in countries where they have stupid heads and people do not have the effort to change it or the inability to enforce change.
Thank you for this information ,, Moneytane ,,-and have nice days and health.
Ivan
U.S. 1905 Liberty Nickel. I am old and found it in change when I was very young. It was different from all the rest of the Nickels circulating at the time so I kept it and have it to this day. Part of the reason I am a collector as this coin helped spark my interest in coins a long time ago.
When I was in college I worked in a retail store sometimes working at the cash register. One day a customer came in and paid with cash. Among the coins he paid with was a US 1911D Barber Half Dollar. Once he left I replaced the 50 cent piece with 2 of my quarters. It wasn't in great shape but I've kept it in my collection ever since.
In second place is a US 1917 Wheat Ear penny. I don't know when I got it since for the last 35 years all my pennies I got in change went straight to a 5 gallon water container without examination. Late last year I went through all those pennies (20,000 of them) and found it along with 150 other Wheat Ear pennies including 2 steel ones.
Far from the oldest (I think it would be a 1915 wheat penny), but today for the first time I can ever recall, I got a 1945-S Jefferson war nickel in my change
Just recently I got 1969 chunky 5 "new" Pence in a bag of 10ps. so I might not count as change.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
About 10 years ago I received this coin in place of a 5p piece (or maybe a 1p? I forget. Closer in colour to 1p, closer in size to 5p). Apologies on the photo quality, my camera isn't designed for extreme close-up quality it seems; condition is nicer than it appears!
I believe its a nummus of Constantine I, and was only minted for two years 334-335. If I recall correctly, it was what we'd recognise today as a circulating commemorative design, though I can't recall what they were commemorating.
And it turns up in my change nearly 1,700 years later!
It's my second oldest coin & oddly enough my oldest coin may have come from a shop too about six weeks later. I think it was in my change too, but might have been in a bag of pennies from the bank. Not 100%.
Went to bank to get bag of pennies for shop I was working in. Went into a different shop on the way back & threw the pennies I received in change into the bag. Emptied penny bag onto counter back at “my” shop to count out for till float & there it was.
I'm a lot less confident on this one, but I think its a prutah from ~100bce.
That's amazing Roman coins in your change. Whoever took that coin in, needs to go to Specsavers!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Initially, I just thought it was maybe an old very worn farthing. I knew the Georgian kings had some designs where they wore a tunic-y armour & laurel wreaths. Didn't seem too much a stretch to imagine a design in a helmet.
Once I got outside into natural light, I realised it was much older & recognised (after a bit of squinting & turning) the famous she-wolf with baby Romulus & Remus motif. Plus “ROMA” written on the coin helped. 😉
I think I've told the story before on Numista somewhere but it was at a town called Bishop Auckland, not far from a partially excavated Roman fort (maybe a mile or so) called Binchester (Vinovia / Vinovium to the Romans), when they were doing an excavation expansion.
Often wondered if there's a connection. Did someone dig it up & then accidentally pocket it & spend it. Maybe.
Certainly the fort existed at that time, and the coin had ~75 years to make it from it's minting place (Siscia in modern day Croatia) to England before the Romans went home in ~410.
Still, regardless of how it got back into circulation, whoever accepted it must have been as blind as a bat!
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I also found some Georgian half-pennies when I was out walking once, just right off a paved path by the side of an A road. I reckon some metal detectorist must have found them but then accidentally dropped them out of their pocket on the way home.
Sadly, they're really worn & suffering from copper disease. I'll maybe dig them out of my “quarantine box” for a photo some time.
I bet the person who paid with it thought it was a button, or some other kind of junk. Wow! Just imagine getting a 2000+ year old coin in change, and in decent condition as well. I'm lost for words, mate.
I went to a bank today. And when I am there occasionally, I ask if they have half dollar coins. Sometimes they do have a few Kennedys. But today the lady told me that she had only 2. I asked if she can change them to me, she said of course.
I have her a $1 bill and she gave me these 2.
I was so shocked… So, sharing it with you.
I don't know if it considers “found in circulation”, bit very close to it.
1991 coins
1997 Top left, the 5c and 10c are no longer used.
1991 coins
1997 Top left, the 5c and 10c are no longer used.
son's 10 CZK is separate- 2020
It has even colored yellows are rare, blue rarely and otherwise only very nice preserved.
When you visit Prague after a pandemic - disgust, you will find it in circulation.
son's 10 CZK is separate- 2020
It has even colored yellows are rare, blue rarely and otherwise only very nice preserved.
When you visit Prague after a pandemic - disgust, you will find it in circulation.
million), 2015 - 12 million, 2015 - 10 million (Not including any Anzac coins which are never seen in criculation), 2016 and 2018 (6 million each). Even more interesting is most 2006 coins are still very shiny after 15 years.
