I was amazed at having a stash of coins ranging over a 100 years in age. That would be like having a a bunch of quarters from 1910 in my loose change jar.
I’m guessing they didn’t have a treasury department that would keep all of the old silver coins and replace them with new coins made out of tin.
Somewhere around here there's a ceramic (? my memory isn't what it used to be) 'piggy' bank that obviously has coins in, and I was told had belonged to the grandmother of mine I never got to meet. I carefully worked the coins out through the slot and was struck by, number one, the wild variety (the one that I recall offhand was some early 19th c king of somewhere in Europe, obviously I don't recall that much) and the complete lack of condition of the coins. Grandma's family had a business, I'm guessing these were oddball coins that came in trade.