Thread: $pare change...what do you do with it?

I have one of those Quaker Oat Meal cardboard round containers that I use. I fill it up, then I dump that into one of those large commercial size pickle jars. Ive paid for entire vacations for all of us out of that jar.

I used to also, not so much right now, take excess $1 bills and toss them in there. If I had more than say three or four, then I would take all the rest and toss them in the jar. It worked really well because Im always breaking bills ($5, $10, $20, etc) and then I never paid exact change so I always had tons of change in my pocket.

It adds up in a major hurry. Even when I was a bachelor it added up. One year with all the $1 bills I saved and the enormous amount of changed I had saved up I took a trip to Florida, paid for all the gas there and back, all my expenditures while I was there and still had money left over when I came back.

Those are all great. Guess my glass water bottle isn't as rare as i thought it was.

The little red towel thing in the corner of my picture above, that was a slip cover from a bottle of wine. Inside is a Chivas Regal tube that one of those bottles came in. Inside THAT is where I keep my "specialty coins". Such as wheat head pennys, bicentennial quarters, aluminum quarters and dimes, those pennys you smash in those machines when your on vacation, two dollar bills, and a good stack of one dollar bills.

Whats so special about the $1.00's?

They are all defaced, such as the stamps on them "Wheres George Been find out at www. etc." and those that have the marijuana plant stamps on them, or the "I grew hemp" stamps, or just people that drew on them, or marked them, or did some art on them etc.

I used to have more, but back in high school I needed to gas up my car and I was broke, so I tapped in to my collection, and paid for a tank of gas with nothing but defaced $1.00 bills. The clerk at the gas station probably thought I did them all. LOL

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Originally Posted by GR8racingfool

Such as wheat head pennys, bicentennial quarters, aluminum quarters and dimes, those pennys you smash in those machines when your on vacation, two dollar bills, and a good stack of one dollar bills.

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You have an aluminum quarter? Ive been collecting coins for a long time and I dont think I have ever heard of those before.

Originally Posted by SyntheticShield

You have an aluminum quarter? Ive been collecting coins for a long time and I dont think I have ever heard of those before.

Ya, they are aluminum. I only have 4 quarters and just a few dimes.
The dates on the quarters are 1939, '57, '62, and '64. They don't have the marking as to where they were minted at. The dimes I have read 1946, '51, and '51.

I first found them when I worked all those years at the Bicycle shop, sometimes they would pop up, like from a customer, or from the bank in a roll of quarters. They make a very distinctive sound when you are counting down your drawl, when they hit the other coins, its a very high pitch "ting", you hear that, you know you got one. Kinda rare, working retail for over 8 years, and I only found 2.

The other two, and the dimes came from Heather and her job when she was counting down her tills in the office. She knows to save them for me.

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