I have several of the big prezel jars (roughly two gallon sizes) full of change I've accumulated over the years. I used to turn convert my loose change to cash regularly at my credit union, but they took out the coin sorting machines. I'm not going to pay coinstar 10% or whatever their fee is to sort it for me, so it has accumulated.
In the later 60s and 70s, my dad was saving all of the pre-1964 silver coins. Then in the 1990s, dad started saving all of the pre-1981 copper pennies. Pennies made after 1981 are mostly zince. My mom would go to the bank and get dad several dollars of wrapped pennies. He would pick out the older pennies and re-wrap the newer pennies and take them back to the bank. Mom didn't mind, it kept him occupied after he retired. I now have two five gallon buckets full of older pennies.
I think coins will be made obsolete within my lifetime. What do you guys think?
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