# Just some old pocket change
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 21, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958 "2016-06-21T14:17:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/1 "2016-06-21T14:17:27Z")
Not counting any special keepsakes, what is the oldest coin you have in your pocket right now?
American five cent piece-1961.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/2 "2016-06-21T14:20:35Z")
As soon as I get home I put any change into the change bucket. So basically I only have change two days a week, and I never look at it between the time it goes into my pocket and when it comes out.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/3 "2016-06-21T14:41:08Z")
Out of the five coins in my pocket right now (2 quarters, 2 pennies, and 1 dime) the dime is oldest - looks like 1968. One of the quarters is 1977 and one of the pennies is 1982.
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### Author:  [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/4 "2016-06-21T14:47:56Z")
1978 Canadian 10 cent piece. Go Bluenose!
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/5 "2016-06-21T14:49:59Z")
I’m too old to read the dates anymore.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/6 "2016-06-21T15:13:46Z")
None. I hate coins and regularly pay with a debit card, so coins are rarely in my pocket.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/7 "2016-06-21T15:21:35Z")
A 1978 penny.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/8 "2016-06-21T15:25:55Z")
A 1996 Canadian toonie: two of them in fact. Two toonies. But yea some of those dates are hard to read, particularly on dimes.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/9 "2016-06-21T15:47:03Z")
Pockets?
I was specifically told the internet had a “no pants required” policy.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/10 "2016-06-21T15:59:22Z")
1967 US Quarter.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/11 "2016-06-21T16:01:33Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> I’m too old to read the dates anymore.
No kidding. I had to get my phone out and do a 4x zoom with the camera before I could read that dime!
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/12 "2016-06-21T16:58:47Z")
Just a 1990 U.S. penny.
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### Author:  [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/13 "2016-06-21T17:08:11Z")
1990 CDN Loon.
A week or so ago I counted out 5 quarters for a $1.25 muffin. Then I looked and it looked like 4 quarters so I put in another. When the cashier called out that I had overpayed, I was already at the stairs so I said keep it. She said, “are you sure? One is a 1958”. Lucky her!
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/14 "2016-06-21T18:54:47Z")
A surprising 1967 dime.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/15 "2016-06-21T19:03:02Z")
Okay, I’m wearing pants now. You can open your eyes.
I also retrieved the change I had in yesterday’s pants. $1.03: two quarters, four dimes, two nickels, and three pennies. The oldest is a 1966 nickel, which is in good condition for a fifty year old coin. The youngest and the most interesting is a 2014 quarter, which is part of the National Park commemorative series and features the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado.
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### Author:  [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/16 "2016-06-21T19:11:26Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> The youngest and the most interesting is a 2014 quarter, which is part of the National Park commemorative series and features the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado.
Or a Doonie, as they say up north.
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### Author:  [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/17 "2016-06-21T19:59:21Z")
The OLDest coin I have in my pockets today is a 1978 US quarter. The ODDest coin I have is a Canadian nickel from 1979. I’m in the southeastern United States, how in the ever-loving blue-eyed blazes did a Canadian nickel end up in my pockets?!!
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### Author:  [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/18 "2016-06-21T20:05:08Z")
1993 uk 2p. We keep our non-coppers fresh…
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### Author:  [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/19 "2016-06-22T00:20:14Z")
A 1960-D penny.
My newest coin was a shiny 2015 dime. Or is that a different thread?
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### Author:  [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-some-old-pocket-change/757958/20 "2016-06-22T00:31:18Z")
A single coin, an Australian $1 - 2015
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