Pocket change

[Blind Squirrel]

Does anyone have an idea of what kind of coins someone, say in 1905, would be carrying in their pockets. Would the coins likely be a few years old, or twenty to thirty years old or older. Just curious.

 

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[bazinga]

Just go look at your change jar. How much older than the present are those coins? I bet the mix will be pretty similar, but with lower quantity.

 

[liftloop]

I don't no but this mite help, Here in my town they built a park in the early 80T's like 1982, and this year we were finding pennies from the early 70T's I would think there a 10 to 40T's year on any park. So in other words,
I think if they built a park in 1900 you should find coins from the mid to late 1800's if not older. just my opinion that doesn't mean much.Ive only been detecting for three summers now,and this being the third. happy hunt en liftloop

 

[mlayers]

I would say the coins would be 20 to 30 yrs old just lime the change in your pockets.....Matt

 

[Tuberale]

75-80% of pocket change is less than 10 years old today. In 1900, though, pocket change would be closer to 20-30 years old. And keep in mind in 1900 gold coins were still in common circulation, and valued at gold prices at the time: around $20 for a $20 gold double eagle.

Now you know why it's important to hunt older areas.

 

[kmatcek]

Well let me add this. We use banks today like no other era has, we don't save money at home like they did way back when.
I graduated high school in 1980 and the store across the street from my high school had coins from the 30's-40's all the time in our change.
I even stopped saving coins if they were not silver.
The old German heritage folks around there had their money stashed and as the kids needed lunch money they gave them money from the stash.
So my opinion is the further you go back in time the older the coins people would possibly be carrying in their pockets that is if they pulled some money from the cash stash.
Today we do not save like our grandparents did for the rainy day.

 

[truckinbutch]

Back in my Grandpa's day folks didn't carry loose pocket change . Coinage and folding money , if you had it , was carried in a snap clasp leather purse in a secure pocket of your overalls .
They were self sufficient enough that there was no need for day to day monetary transactions like we experience today .
Saved up coins were much older than you would find in a survey today .