Circulation find

"Jud" wrote in message
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mazorj wrote:

One thing that caught my eye was that 5-6 of them had the edge
reeding
completely worn off. Not just weak, but almost entirely gone to
the
naked eye. I don't collect halves, so I'm wondering if this is a
common wear pattern? They all were in the 1990-2000 date range and
otherwise looked like the other hockey pucks. Any thoughts out
there
on how common this is and how it happens?

Do you live in an area with a casino? Half dollars are not regularly
used in commerce, but are used in slot machines. Coins that go
through
mechanisms often show a lot of wear on the edges.

Not exactly near, but I'm in the market areas for the WV slots and
Atlantic City. I figured it might be slots wear, but are there any
post-1990 machines that take halves? IIRC halves were never very
popular even in the hey-day of coin-op slot machines. Silver dollars,
quarters and nickels seemed to dominate.

"Jud" wrote in message
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mazorj wrote:


One thing that caught my eye was that 5-6 of them had the edge reeding
completely worn off. Not just weak, but almost entirely gone to the
naked eye. I don't collect halves, so I'm wondering if this is a
common wear pattern? They all were in the 1990-2000 date range and
otherwise looked like the other hockey pucks. Any thoughts out there
on how common this is and how it happens?

Do you live in an area with a casino? Half dollars are not regularly
used in commerce, but are used in slot machines. Coins that go through
mechanisms often show a lot of wear on the edges.

I haven't seen many slots that still take halves. Maybe it was someone who
had an older home 50¢ machine who got rid of the machine and decided to cash
in the coins it had been using.