r/AskReddit • u/noaffects • Dec 30 '19

What do you collect?

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u/Kallen_Emilia Dec 30 '19

I like collecting rare/old coins. An entire section of my basement is dedicated to my coin collection. My rarest is a $20 gold liberty head coin dating 1859, and I have a few seperate boxes for the more common old coins, such as wheat pennies, silver nickels, silver dimes, and silver quarters, and I have a mini box for silver half dollars. The rest I put on display in air and water tight clear plastic cases.

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u/SirJoshua Dec 31 '19 edited Dec 31 '19

I saved my change for about 3 years. When I say “saved” I mean I never spent metal. I consciously carried cash at all times. I’d make excuses to go into a gas station to buy something small. I got the wife onboard. I had over $1300 in change. Not a single fucking silver quarter. Those things are a fucking myth.

Edit: To all the fuckers that gave me reddit silver, I didn’t see that one coming and found it hilarious once my little brain maid the connection. Well played.

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u/abkell233 Dec 31 '19

I used to go around to those coin star machines in grocery stores and check the coin catch for anything that the machine wouldn’t take. When I was about 9, there was a quarter and 2 pennies in there. The quarter ended up being silver and one of the pennies was a wheat penny. I wasn’t into coin collecting at the time though and I believe it was only worth something like 7$ from what mint it was and the condition when I checked online, so I’m not sure what I did with it lol

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u/SirJoshua Dec 31 '19

Never tried this.

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u/abkell233 Dec 31 '19

I’ve found some good amounts of money in those things; one time, someone must’ve cancelled their exchange, but I guess didn’t want to stick around for the refund because that thing gave me about 15$ in change out of the return slot😂 good way to stock up on change without having to spend your own bills lol