Good day

Experiments like this are routinely reported in the numismatic press ( The Numismatist (money.org) and Numismatic News.)  There was one recently using US 1 cent pieces by the thousands and several international coins showed up as well as older style cent pieces many decades old.

David Hayes
St. Croix VI

geoff carver <[log in to unmask]> wrote: i heard a lecture recently, in which someone mentioned a small experiment, where he tallied the dates of the coins in the pockets of his acquaintances, and i was wondering if anyone has seen reference to anything more systematic? i know philip barker makes reference to the problems of trying to date the contents of someone's pockets based on the coins he tried to use to make a phone call, but i was wondering if there might have been a more systematic study done somewhere, sometime, and not necessarily by archaeologists (banks or mints, to guage the age of coins in circulation?)


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