Lowball Collectors. Share Your PO-1 Coins.

Found this metal detecting and was really disappointed when it cleaned up into this.

A Canadian dime with a completely unknown date.

Very nice, JimmyD!

Agreed.

Very nice, Connor!

Just before decimalisation in the UK in 1971, you could still occasionally pull Victorian 'bun' pennies of 1860-94 from circulation. It was not unusual to find these with a clear date but hardly anything else: the dates are well struck and the exergue is somewhat sunken, so they are the complete opposite of coins like the Buffalo nickel or early Standing Liberty quarter.

Here are three from my own collection, all rescued from circulation about 47 years ago!

1865:



1870:



1873:

I'm not entirely sure this is all circulation wear but, there's enough left to identify it!

1907 Colombia 5 pesos Papel Moneda:

Nice coins!

For the last few years, I've been trying to get a lowball date set of those from low-end bargain bins.
A somewhat outdated list is in this thread; compared to that list, I've added 1864 (which turned out to be a crosslet 4), 1868, 1880, 1882, 1889, 1891, and 1894.
This brings me to 1860-8, 1870-7, 1879-82, 1884-7, 1889-92, and 1894 (plus some post-1894 dates, which I'm ignoring for the moment, especially since the coins aren't even that worn).
In other words, in the 1860-94 range, I'm only missing six dates - 1869, 1878, 1883, 1884, 1888, and 1893 (though I'm not 100% sure of my 1892, and I have a damaged example for 1884; and yes, I successfully downgraded my 1885).
Of course, if we include the H and non-H varieties, the count gets much larger (my set has both versions of 1874 and 1876, but I don't recall what other dates have them, and the little H wears away faster than the date, so sometimes I can't know for sure).
...I should try to do a group photo of those eventually.

That would be nice to see!