Sometimes I like dating coins

[SCUD14]

When I get bored I examine the loose change in my pocket. I especially look at the dates printed on each coin, and try and find the oldest one I can.

It's pretty sad actually, but vaguely interesting.

Below is a 20p from 1983. Imagine how much this coin has seen in the 26 years of its life. Perhaps it was dropped on the floor during the Bradford riots. Maybe it even went to the Falklands, or Iraq. Maybe some fat guy shoved it up his ass and now I'm handling it.

It makes one wonder.

now show me your old coins.

[Twilight]

My old coins have passed.

I just get the pennies that everyone has "used".

[Letters]

You could figure out a lot just from some simple tests. As long as you don't clean it, you can probably find a lot of stuff actually on the coin, which would tell you where the coin as been.

[Cybersief]

I thought you meant go out on a date with a coin, threw me off I thought this was gonna be an interesting topic.

[wafflecake12]

The title was SO misleading.

[bq]

At 7/3/09 11:01 AM, SCUD14 wrote: Maybe some fat guy shoved it up his ass and now I'm handling it.

That's exactly what I was going to say. And I mean exactly.

[TheSilverGuitar]

What I do when I'm bored and have change in my pocket is examine the dates and try to think of something interesting in history that happened in that year.
Which is sadder than your thing, I guess.

[TheSilverGuitar]

Wow, I totally didn't notice this.

[CowGoMoo]

here is a half dollar from 1979, i have some pennies from like the 60's that i cant find though

[simple-but-sandy]

I found a couple of 1p coins from the decimalisation switchover. Instead of 'one penny' written across the top, they had 'new penny'.

[Naked-Nintendo]

At 7/3/09 11:16 AM, TheSilverGuitar wrote: Wow, I totally didn't notice this.

ITS OVER 5000!!!

[BananaBreadMuffin]

God damn I was all excited about some new fetish you had :(

Anyway, I just checked my shrapnel and I've got a penny piece from 1973 in my wallet...

Just think, the oldest pennies are only 1971, so this is packing it.

[xKore]

At 7/3/09 11:23 AM, Naked-Nintendo wrote:

At 7/3/09 11:16 AM, TheSilverGuitar wrote: Wow, I totally didn't notice this.

ITS OVER 5000!!!

Yeah, that's not funny mate.

[PrawDuhJee]

At 7/3/09 11:38 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Just think, the oldest pennies are only 1971, so this is packing it.

Whatchoo talkin' bout boy?

[nsc007]

A while ago I found a penny dated 1948, with the image of King George VI and the inscription "George VI Dei Gratia Rex".
I would put up a picture, but I can't find the damned thing.

[Fruitbasket]

I find looking at coins cool sometimes, but it sucks when thats your dad's hobby, 3 years ago he bought me 2,000 pennies off of E-Bay that we could look at and date.. Still working on that...

[RubberTrucky]

I have a 1954 50 centimes piece in my 'before Euro' stash (50 centimes= +/- 1 euro cent)
I found it on the street a few years ago.

I'm sure you can have ancient coins as a collector's item.

[Jercurpac]

I have a quarter from 1928, it's really scuffed and in an overall poor quality so it's probably worth fuck all, but I like to collect old silver quarters from before they made the change to a copper nickle blend. When this quarter was minted WWI had only been over for ten years and and WWII was still decade off. Television hadn't been invented yet and if you tried to explain computers people would called you a witch an thrown their feces at you (as was accustomed in those days). It's actually a really cool design, I wonder why they decided to go with George Washington's ugly mug. Dude already had the dollar.

[BananaBreadMuffin]

At 7/3/09 11:39 AM, PrawDuhJee wrote:

At 7/3/09 11:38 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Just think, the oldest pennies are only 1971, so this is packing it.

Whatchoo talkin' bout boy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day

[jewgrounds]

At 7/3/09 11:11 AM, Cybersief wrote: I thought you meant go out on a date with a coin, threw me off I thought this was gonna be an interesting topic.

same here.

[THEPHISHERMAN]

lol me too. i got a coin from 1930's

[Digital-Terror]

I have a centennial quarter, though I don't remember what the date was.

[Figter]

The Weirdest coin i have is this Swedish one from Y2K ,the milenium coin version

[Lock3]

I'm especially fond of looking at the dates of coins.

[RKthrilla]

I tried dating a coin once, but the sexual experience was just awful.

[TheAnimatorGuy]

At 7/3/09 11:01 AM, SCUD14 wrote:

Maybe some fat guy shoved it up his ass and now I'm handling it.

Can I have some of your spare change.

[LBRocker]

I've got a jar I save for wheat pennies. I only have seven,but in the rare event I find more I'm prepared. It's funny, because I do the same thing.

[platypuspwn]

The oldest coin I have is a 2 Spanish Reales from 1774

[tiskewl]

If you are into dating money, marry a celebrity.

Of course that is what he meant.

[TheShyGuy]

LOLOLOL HES DATING COINS AS IN HES GOING ON DATES WITH THEM

What a hilarious play on words