Do you pay attention to the date?

I have two quart sized Ziploc bags full of Wheat pennies and Buffalo Head nickels. I also have several coins in separate coin bags that are worth much more than their stamped value.

I never pay attention. But this reminds me of a story. When my girls were small we visited a historical village, where the staff play the role of being in the historical time period. My girls pulled out their pennies to buy treats in the general store because the prices were just pennies. The store keeper accused them of trying to cheat him with funny money and showed them "real" money. They checked dates on pennies after that. They did come across some from the right time period, but he still wouldn't sell them the products.

When I use to work in the bank counting money. I use to look at the coin and bills, but that was about 10 years ago. haha. I think especially in the era we're living in where coins are going to become a thing of history. (Rare Find) Crypto rising and everyone processing transaction via app/online. It's been a long time since I've taken a hard look at my change. lol Thank you, I had no idea about the D on the coin and what it meant.

Here used to be coins in 1991 and it turned out that there was gold in it, finally exchanged it at the bank for paper money.

I really use cash or coins any more.

I never thought about it.

I don't tend to pay attention to the date. If the coin is particularly shiny, I might look to see how new it is. Occasionally, I'll go through my coins to see if there are any from the year I was born. I collect 50 pence coins with characters and things on them. I have a small collection, mostly with Peter Rabbit characters. I believe Peter Rabbit was the first fictional character to be on a circulated British coin.

I don't usually look, but I should. I used to collect wheat pennies, but spent them one time in a cash crunch

I do save what they call "wheat pennies" (pennies that had wheat on the tails side instead of the Lincoln Memorial). They were discontinued in 1959.

@scribbledadnauseum I have coins that are no longer in use from the 1800s. I think they must have been my grandfather's.

No, I don't pay attention to the date of the coins.

I save all the old wheat pennies and any silver coins.

It's a good coin. No I don't pay attention. You take care

Only if it's old and other currency. I will keep it along with commemorative coins even if it's still in circulation by our country's currency.

I know our coins have a date stamped on them, somewhere... but that doesn't change the fact I still can't see it.

Not necessarily. I do look at it from time to time. But not often. I have a jar full of pennies, must be hundreds of dollars in there... I have thought about taking them out one by one to see if there is anything of value in there. But I probably ultimately won't. lol