Finding older paper currency in circulation seems to be getting more common and silver coins less and less of late ....

Greetings Collectors : I am finding a new trend with my circulated pickings at work .....I used to pick up a stray silver coin or two every week ( a Roosevelt Dime , Kennedy Clad Half or War Nix most common ) now I am finding nothing ...I mean nada . In recent weeks though I have seen a spike in old bank notes ....2 of which I previously shared .

Here's a third I recently gleened 1935-E $1 Silver Certificate . Has the economy dipped again to the point where people are simply

spending these old banknotes where they used to hold on to them ? I wonder . The fact that silver coins have literally disappeared is due I am sure to the fact that silver has recently spiked to near historic levels and folks are being extra diligent to pick them out of change quickly when they do appear .

I did have a co worker recently pick up an entire roll of old circulated Buffalo Nickels . So there are still treasures to be found at face value I think however they are fewer and fewer than ever before .

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