Look at the world that we are being robbed of
(midwest.social)
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The thought of accidentally (or worse, intentionally) paying for bus fare with an ancient coin makes me shrivel up and die on the inside 😭
My thought exactly. Has anyone in Edwards' family boxed his ears, first for using the coin his Grandfather passed down to him, and secondly for using it as fucking bus fare? Who TF are these people?
I feel like accident would be worse. I guess a situation where one is desperate enough to need to do so intentionally is worse, but for a laugh it seems fine.
I was thinking intentionally like "I bet I can cheat the bus service out of a whole dollar if I pay with this worthless piece of antiquity instead"
"Worthless" yeah, just looking at that thumbnail, it's probably worth a couple hundred dollars. That mother fucker is dumb.
Carthage minted coins for a far shorter period of time than the Romans did. And in the world of coins and antiques thay means more money.
I would bet that in the 1950s when that happened, the coin was worth more than the bus fare. Might still be, not sure.
I thought this was a recent bus fare but it was a coin that a bus driver picked out of the fares in the 1950s because it was interesting and different, and gave it to his son. Pretty cool tbh.
Another article on the coin: https://news.leeds.gov.uk/news/fare-to-say-ancient-coin-has-travelled-through-time
I once found a quarter from the 1860s in my change from Mcdonalds
not ancient, but still a cool find
That's legitimately insane, almost statistically improbable that you'd get your hands on it.
Someone would have to first mix it into their pocket change, then spend it, then you would have to pay for your meal with a bill for a total which would see you returned 25¢ in your change before the restaurant closed out the cash register for the night, and deposited it at the bank. Anytime odd (older and discontinued, damaged, foreign) coinage cycles through a bank, it's typically taken out of circulation or at least separated from that which is redistributed to clients.
I'd jump for joy like a cartoon character if I was changed back a coin older than my Great-great Grandparents after snagging a burger.
Yeah, kinda blew my mind. If it was the only coin you had you'd notice it as a very old and worn coin, and if it was mixed in with change the jingle sound is completely different. It probably helped that it was on a field trip and the McDonalds was absolutely swamped.
I mean, I have an old roman coin that isn't anything special. It would cover about 3 months of bus passes.
It would cover about 3 months of bus passes.
I think you have to tie a little string to it first.
They watch for that.
It's maybe not considered an exceptional example of Roman coinage, but IMO it's special all the same. The sheer scale of history in that coin of yours probably outstrips that of any other object in your house, even if it's not worth $10K.
Maybe head to head. But I'm sure some of my other antiques and coins have a bit of history attached.
When I was in college, I worked as a movie projectionist, and would do day-end accounting at the theater. I ended up with large quantities of rare-ish coins (silver dimes, silver half-dollars, wheat pennies, Athena half dollars) and a few Silver Certificates as well. I always carried various change so I could exchange those.
Terrible exchange rate
