I know the feeling!
As an old newsboy, I got started collecting coins from that. I have never stopped LOOKING at my change but with the change brought about by credit cards and the like, I have a lot less to look at these days. However I recently found a 1942 Lincoln Wheat but found another that really shocked me from just the past month. A 1963 90% silver quarter!!! How it stayed in circulation I will never know unless someone's collection got broken into! At current bullion pricing, this quarter is just over $2.55 value.
Yea, I have four paper routes in 69-71, and some customers paid me with coins for my collection. Four fifteen am f ok r Dayton Journal Herald, then nc after school the Dayton Daily News and then 94 copies of the mega Sunday DDN. Tuesdays and Wednesdays the Shopping News for 300 a penny each. Thursday was the Business Weekly. Dad “made” me share the Shopping News with my two sisters... I was pulling in $32-36 s week in 7-8th grades whileUS Servicemen were dying in Nam for $62 a month.
I always look at my change. Never know what you'll find. I was at a convenience store a few years ago, and the guy had a bunch of .50 cent pieces in the drawer. I told him I'd take them all. Ended up being 2 90% silvers, and an entire roll of 40%. That was a great find.