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Are coins worth anything?

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Idz21

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This is a message to anyone who would know the values of the regular US change monies.

I was planning on going to the Commerce bank and use their change machine to drop off all the change I have accumulated for the past 6 years or so and get paper money back. I had a couple of questions to the coin experts before I do so.

1. Are old coins worth more than their face value? For example, really old pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, 50 cent coins, dollar coins? If they are in fact worth more, what years would be considered worth holding on to?

2. Are the state quarters worth anything? I know I have a bunch of the different state quarters that came out a few years back, and would it be worth holding onto those for future gain?



Thanks for all your help in advance. And if there is a better forum that you know of where I can post my question let me know.



-Pete
 
As far as I'm aware, any coin you picked up in change is really, really unlikely to be worth more than face value - basically a coin has to be v.old (>100 yrs), and in very good condition to make it worth you picking through your change for it!

 
1. Only if minted in 1964 or before. This is because then they were still made with real metals, i.e. a penny is pure copper, dimes and quarters are pure silver, etc. <edit> that is just to have them be worth more than face value... truly valuable coins need to be much older still</edit>

2. The new state quarters that they've been making the past few years? No. Maybe in another 50 years.
 
use coinstar if you haven't rolled them all up already

if they are rolled, the bank will probably take care of you
 
Originally posted by: Idz21

I was planning on going to the Commerce bank and use their change machine to drop off all the change I have accumulated for the past 6 years or so and get paper money back. I had a couple of questions to the coin experts before I do so.

1. Are old coins worth more than their face value? For example, really old pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, 50 cent coins, dollar coins? If they are in fact worth more, what years would be considered worth holding on to?

2. Are the state quarters worth anything? I know I have a bunch of the different state quarters that came out a few years back, and would it be worth holding onto those for future gain?
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Try looking here. Very little is worth more than face value unless it grades as virtually uncirculated (if you got it from someone's cash register and dumped it in a jar with hundreds of other coins, it won't be), although coins from the first half of the last century will have some worth for their metal content.

State quarters are worth $.25. It's not like anyone's getting rich off bicentennial quarters yet.
 
Thanks for all the reponses guys.

I just went through my whole collection and here's what I got. I pretty much just seperated all the coins that were from 1969 and older and put them in a seperate container. Probably won't exchange those.


Pennies: (year - amount)
1940 - 1
1942 - 1
1944 - 2
1947 - 1
1948 - 1
1952 - 1
1956 - 2
1960 - 2
1961 - 1
1963 - 5
1964 - 10
1965 - 1
1966 - 2
1967 - 4
1968 - 2
1969 - 3

Nickels:
1953 - 2
1958 - 1
1960 - 1
1964 - 4
1966 - 1


Dimes:
1965 - 6
1966 - 2
1967 - 7
1969 - 1

Quarters:
1965 - 11
1966 - 5
1967 - 5
1968 - 2
1969 - 4
1776-1976 Bicentennial - 3

Half Dollars:
1776-1976 Bicentennial - 1 (Kennedy)

Dollars:
1980 - 1 (Susan B. Anthony)
2000 - 5 (The yellow ones)


Anything in there worth something?
 
Keep the "wheatie" cents, made 1959 and earlier. Also the 1953 nickel.
However, these aren't worth more than ~25 cents each.
The remaing coins don't have any value over face value.
Silver U.S. coins were discontinued after 1964, except for half dollars, which retained some silver content until after the 1970-dated halves.
However, the U.S. Mint still currently produces "Proof Set" silver dimes, quarters & halves.
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The copper cent was changed in 1983 to be made of 95% zinc.
 
What is the best way of changing your coins into cash? My friends make fun of people using the Coinstar machine due to the service fee. But if you just take it to a bank and dump it on the counter, don't you have a lot of pissed off people in line and an upset teller?
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
What is the best way of changing your coins into cash? My friends make fun of people using the Coinstar machine due to the service fee. But if you just take it to a bank and dump it on the counter, don't you have a lot of pissed off people in line and an upset teller?
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Typically most banks will only offer change counting on certain days of the week, and you have to have an account there.
 
If only I hadn't lost that 1883 3 cent nickel in the move... I picked up a coin book from a thrift store that was published in 1973 and the condition my coin was in made it worth well over $22,000 in '73. I wonder how much it's worth now? 😱
 
Keep what you're interested in. I'd keep the Susan B. and the bicentenials. Get yourself one of those booklets that take coins from each year and each mint in little pockets.

D = Denver
S = San Francisco
P or none = Philadelphia

The particular mint makes a difference in value too. Like a 1955 double die (error) Philadelphia penny is worth a bundle.
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
What is the best way of changing your coins into cash? My friends make fun of people using the Coinstar machine due to the service fee. But if you just take it to a bank and dump it on the counter, don't you have a lot of pissed off people in line and an upset teller?
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The Commerce Banks have machines which work like the CoinStar except you do not get charged a fee. This is what I will do tomorrow.
 
Originally posted by: Idz21
Originally posted by: sygyzy
What is the best way of changing your coins into cash? My friends make fun of people using the Coinstar machine due to the service fee. But if you just take it to a bank and dump it on the counter, don't you have a lot of pissed off people in line and an upset teller?
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The Commerce Banks have machines which work like the CoinStar except you do not get charged a fee. This is what I will do tomorrow.
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lol... like, yeah.

Do you really think a teller is going to sit there and count change in this day and age? 😉 They just take it and dump it into the machine.
 
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