Check your pocket change...

[AZViking]

You never know what you'll find.This week, I found two silver quarters (1963, and 1964). My wife is a band teacher and sells reeds to her students for $.50 each. She didn't want to haul all the quarters to the store to buy reeds with, so I gave her all the cash I had on hand for the quarters. If the soda machine at work hadn't rejected the 1964 one this morning, I would've missed it. (Any US Quarter from 1932 to 1964 is 90% silver / 10% copper.) The metal content in each coin is only worth about $2.50 each, but hey, it adds up if you find enough of them.

[Kamikaze]

Recently I got a $50 star note from 1963, gave it to my dad to sell at a paper money show for me...Sold for $125.I've collected paper money and coins for years, some just interesting, some stuff worth some $$$.

[Raven]

I once got a wooden nickel.

[keithvibe]

right now in my pocket is a 1965 quarter... last week i got back from a store a 1898 penny. someones going to miss that one

[ToolGuy]

I have a 1966 on me now. Damn!!!!

[808 Vibes]

What pocket change?

[Whelan]

I spent 1964 yesterday on a bagel and coffee downstairs at work, LOL.

[Sublimewind]

Quote, originally posted by Kamikaze »Recently I got a $50 star note from 1963, gave it to my dad to sell at a paper money show for me...Sold for $125.I've collected paper money and coins for years, some just interesting, some stuff worth some $$$.I've got a star note at home.. not sure of denomination..

[altimar]

Quote, originally posted by AZViking »(Any US Quarter from 1932 to 1964 is 90% silver / 10% copper.)Ah, I see I'm not the only numismatist on the site. If you can't remember the years, just look at the side of the coin. On the '65 and older coins you can see the copper sandwiched in between two zinc sides. Also, dimes are the same deal.My best pocket change find was a Barber dime (don't remember the year, maybe 1897 or so).

[altimar]

Quote, originally posted by Sublimewind »I've got a star note at home.. not sure of denomination.. Star notes aren't necessarily valuable, they designate replacement bills for notes that were misprinted or otherwise unacceptable for circulation. If it's older or has an interesting number it may be valuable.

[Sublimewind]

Maybe i'm thinking a Silver Certificate...I can't remember, it's been a long time...

[VivaVibe]

I once got, for change at a store, an old nickel from the late 1800s which was very different. It had one kind of metal in the center surrounded by another kind as an outer ring. I gave it to a guy for 5 cents, as he said his daughter collected coins. A few days later there was an article in the paper, with a pix, of the exact coin. Turns out it was an experimental design lost during an accident while in transit to a collector; said it was valued at 1.8 million. Yikes! I don't know if the fellow saw the article. But, that is my kind of luck.