CarsonChris
Elite Member
Coin dealers across America are going to put old coins back into circulation this week. The local coin dealer in Carson City is going to put some CC minted coins back into circulation! Check your change!
Dang, by the map I would have to travel 200 miles. hope coins get spent in my area. good luck all.
Thanks for the reminder !
Found the official web site -
https://www.greatamericancoinhunt.com/
on the above site it includes a link to a map so you can see if any coins are being released in your area -
https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=3295239&fbclid=IwAR1mpmSujwPbC9VP--f7fgIXuOF135ctPSiQvTr4oDtJEUrzhf_pCdUGFEk
Someone posted this article in a past thread -
http://news.coinupdate.com/numismatics-goes-viral-in-the-united-states-the-coming-great-american-coin-hunt/
Besides putting them in circulation the article also said:
"Organizers of the Great American Coin Hunt are also encouraging collectors and dealers to drop coins in publicly accessible areas for those who wish to hunt with metal detectors. These areas will be marked on ZeeMaps as well."
Dang, by the map I would have to travel 200 miles. hope coins get spent in my area. good luck all.
I've been talking about this for a while now.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=270073&highlight=great+american+coin+hunt
I am one of the dealers participating in this hunt. In addition to dropping coins into circulation, they will be dropped randomly at parks, curbs, into easter egg hunts and i'm even going Geocaching this weekend to plant some.
I encourage everyone to keep their eyes peeled. There's a lot of great stuff being dumped. I plan to drop the following into circulation:
Large cents, wheat cents, indian head cents, Buff/V/shield nickels, silver dimes, quarters and halves, ike dollars, kennedy halves, silver certificates, red and blue seal notes, etc.
It's great to see people posting about this. I will say that there were some issues with people updating the map so there's going to be more coins dropped than you may think.
WOW! I can only imagine how cool it would be to get a large cent back at the store.
The reality is though, as soon as I wrote that, that potentially the only people ever seeing those coins are the cashiers. LOL
Skippy
That is cool! Someone is dispersing some old coinage close to my work. Hope to find some! Thanks for sharing!