# Got a George VI dime in my change!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 12, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168 "2016-06-12T02:54:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/1 "2016-06-12T02:54:26Z")
How has it avoided getting melted down for the silver?!?
Minted in 1941.
George and the Bluenose are both looking a bit worn.
“GEORGIVS VI D.G. REX ET IND. IMP.”
So, a 75 year old coin still circulating.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/2 "2016-06-12T02:58:24Z")
George is facing to the viewer’s left, same as his father, George V, even though there were no Edward VIII coins minted with Eddy facing right.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/3 "2016-06-12T03:49:31Z")
Interesting. Sounds like a keeper!
[ ](http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/8323/9719732_1.jpg?v=8CD02D663AAC1E0)
> **[Coins of the Canadian dollar | King George VI coinage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Canadian_dollar#King_George_VI_coinage)**
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> In late 1937, the tools and matrices finally arrived from London, so the issue of the new coins of the reign of King George VI was struck immediately. The coins' current designs date from this period. The coins were as follows:
> 1.1¢: A twig with two maple leaves (Designer: George Kruger-Gray) |
> 2.5¢: A beaver sitting on a rock and log (Designer: George Kruger-Gray) |
> 3.10¢: The famous Nova Scotian racing schooner Bluenose (Designer: Emmanuel Hahn) |
> 4.25¢: A caribou's head (Designer: Emmanuel...
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/4 "2016-06-12T04:18:53Z")
Yesterday, I was at an estate sale and bought a box of random craft, etc. items. In the bottom of the box were several WW I - era pennies! 🆒 I have no idea if they’re worth much, but they sure are heavy compared to modern pennies. I put them in a jar where I keep Susan B. Anthony dollars, etc.
I looked them up and they’re worth between 20 cents and $5.
One is a 1913 penny, and my source said that 76 million pennies were minted that year. I’m guessing about that many are minted each day nowadays.
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### Author:  [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/5 "2016-06-12T04:46:40Z")
Coins had some relief in those days, like a medal, almost. Today’s coinage look like Chuckie Cheeze tokens.
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### Author:  [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/6 "2016-06-12T04:48:40Z")
I bet it wasn’t in circulation until you found it. Probably some teenagers raided the change jar not knowing what it was and back in circulation. Just my WAG…
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/7 "2016-06-12T04:57:02Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> George is facing to the viewer’s left, same as his father, George V, even though there were no Edward VIII coins minted with Eddy facing right.
Edward VIII was so vain that he refused to have what he thought was his less attractive side on coins, so he was going to face left too.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/8 "2016-06-12T18:53:22Z")
I remember my Dad used to have some George V dimes and pennies in his desk drawer at work. I wonder what he did with them when he sold the store?
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/9 "2016-06-12T19:56:06Z")
It spent 50 years out of circulation, and was kept by somebody in a sock drawer with a few other old coins. Some child in the family needed a snack at the convenience store, took the dime out of the drawer. Mom is livid as soon as she discoveres that her old coins have been squandered on a slurpy. The coin is in circulation until someone recognizes it (a day or two), and puts it back in their sock drawer.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/10 "2016-06-12T20:26:58Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#):
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> I bet it wasn’t in circulation until you found it. Probably some teenagers raided the change jar not knowing what it was and back in circulation. Just my WAG…
Yeah, one of my fun hauls was buying a pack of smokes and throwing the change of 3 quarters in my dash cubby when I got back to the car. They landed with a sound just enough off to get my attention, and when I looked at them they were early 60’s silver quarters. Playing it cool :smack: I went in and said I forgot I needed to do laundry later, and got 4 more bucks worth. got 4 more for a total of 7.
I had a pretty decent cache of silver quarters, but I haven’t seen them in 8 years or so :(. Either lost, stolen, or most likely buried at the bottom of a moving box somewhere.
Anyway back to the story, I was BSing with the manager a couple days later, and he mentioned that a really pissed off man had come in earlier looking for the coin collection his kids had found and spent on candy(like 7-11 would still have them in the drawer 4 days later). Apparently there were some good collecters in there, but somebody else got those.
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/11 "2016-06-12T20:41:03Z")
> [@wolfman](#):
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> Anyway back to the story, I was BSing with the manager a couple days later, and he mentioned that a really pissed off man had come in earlier looking for the coin collection his kids had found and spent on candy(like 7-11 would still have them in the drawer 4 days later). Apparently there were some good collecters in there, but somebody else got those.
Years ago, when I was in high school, a bunch of us got together at a friend’s to watch some game on TV. We decided to order pizza, and Friend called and ordered it.
Then Friend found that neither he, nor we, had enough to pay the pizza guy when he arrived. So, Friend raided his brother’s coin collection (Brother was not there that night), and paid the pizza guy with that.
Brother was definitely not happy when he found out. But the pizza was good.
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/12 "2016-06-12T22:37:08Z")
For years, whenever we mistakenly got some Canadian money as change here in the US, I’d throw it in a box in a drawer. I’m planning a visit to Newfoundland in a couple months, and plan to repatriate that money - including a old paper dollar issued in 1967.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/13 "2016-06-13T00:19:45Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> Brother was definitely not happy when he found out. But the pizza was good.
Unhappy brother, but good pizza. Into each life a little rain must fall. 😛
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/14 "2016-06-13T02:37:30Z")
I got a 1945 nickel last week! And I wondered the same thing!
How have you survived so long in circulation?
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/15 "2016-06-13T02:40:40Z")
Ah, but the 1945 nickel wasn’t made from silver, so it’s a bit easier to understand. Dimes and quarters were silver until the 60s, I think.
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### Author:  [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/16 "2016-06-13T03:24:20Z")
Many, many moons ago I ran a movie theatre where the adult ticket was $4.75–a couple was $9.50. So, when I got the change order from the bank. I got $250.00 in half’s. The bank thought I grew a second head and tendrils. The owner was livid. “Why the ¥ÿ£Üëú▓░Å did you do THAT!” I heard, followed by “Why is the per-head here higher than anywhere else in the chain?”
Seems the couples would get handed the Half and two tickets, give a WTF? look, and march over to the concession stand and spend it. End of the night, sell them back to the box office, lather, rinse and repeat.
I told no one that I was going through the rolls as soon as I got back from the bank and selling the average $4.50 in silver to myself each week…
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2016, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/17 "2016-06-13T09:13:55Z")
I once paid for a movie ticket in Susan B. Anthony dollars and the cashier looked them over, then asked me "Is this American money?
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### Author:  [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/18 "2016-06-13T17:16:39Z")
If it’s a British coin, there’s no way it is a “dime”. What is it?
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### Author:  [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/19 "2016-06-13T17:26:51Z")
> [@Eclipse\_Chaser](#):
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> If it’s a British coin, there’s no way it is a “dime”. What is it?
It’s a Canadian coin. Canada has dimes.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168/20 "2016-06-13T18:50:08Z")
Yes, click on the first link in **Elendil’s Heir’s** post #3 to see it.
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