Thank MightyAP and wmas1960,....for the explanation. I suspected that is what was meant, but needed clarification.
Yea, today's money isn't worth collecting....these pennies, I can't tell you how many I have picked up from the beach, poorly coroded!!!! You can even wash them with water, they fall apart.
Someone told me once, that you have damaged coins, you can take them to the bank and they will give you replacements. Wonder if I should see if that really works
I just got done taking pics of what we have found so far. In quarters...$17.25 cents worth, dimes...$10.90 and nickels...$3.05...pennies I haven't counted yet

We have detected our local beach (Va Beach and Croatain on the Atlantic / Norfolk and Chics Beach on the Chesapeake Bay). I want to go back to Chics Beach though...under the bridge

...also our front, back and side yard. We have only been detecting since April 2006.
In the dimes, I found last night, while washing off the dirt...a 1962 and a 1959 silver dime. So, I put them in little coin card holders and labeled them. Only thing, I can't remember where we found those

....duh me. It had to be one of the beaches....
My mother was a coin collector and my father, a stamp collector. Even today, stamp collecting is boring LOL...but I learned a bit from my Mom on her collection. She use to belong to the Cape Fear Coin Club and the Bie Guild back in the late 60's / early 70's. Her interest was more in pennies though.
I do have a nice collection going in my wheat pennies, just from change over the years. My oldest is only a 1917, which I won't get rid of...that was the year my grandfather entered the Army in WWI
I will post some pics here soon...I need to crop the pics and all and make sure they came out clear enough to see.
Oh, I don't know where I got this, or where it came from...but I put change in cups, bowls, whatever is in my china cabinet and forget about them. Since I started to see what I have, due to our metal detecting, I was putting my wheats in holders, etc. I ran across, what I thought was just a silver slug. I nearly threw it away, but set it aside and later looked at it through my magnifer. I saw QUARTER DOLLAR on it....it is very very worn, so worn, you can not see that date

....but after looking in my latest 2006 coin book....it was a Barber Quarter. I think the two numbers of the date are 19....but can not read the rest...and that is straining to see it. And to think ... I thought it was a slug and was going to trash it...!!!!!
But, even though we haven't found anything of real value...it's not the value, but the joy and pleasure of finding items. Wish there was a way, when you held an item you found, it would transport you to the time when it was lost and you were able to see who owned it

....someday..huh? LOL
Thanks for all the input...glad I signed up for this forum!!!
Ron and Ann