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Pillar of the Community
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That's an interesting one, hope the guy got all his coins back
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Valued Member
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The year was 1978 and I was stationed in South Korea, we were out on a training mission and humped up a mountain to set up defense perimeters. I was cleaning out an old foxhole and found an odd looking 1974 penny with the state of Washington stamped on it. Years later I found out it wasn't a real penny, it was one of those private mint things. The amazing thing is, I still have it.
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Wonder how that got there....
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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When metal detecting I once got a signal right under a cow pat. I dug it up and found an 1898 British penny.
Back when I was at school, I was helping a teacher clear out an old cupboard and I found a coin at the bottom. I put it in my pocket and took it home, where I identified it as a 1901 Russian 3 kopeks. How it got in that cupboard I'll never know. It's still in my collection.
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Wonder how that got there... Probably fell out of someone's pocket, the front pockets on those fatigues weren't the best for keeping things in. I never carried anything in those pockets. |
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I did not find it, my ex brother-in-law did. One day in the late 70's he showed me a 1793 US Half Cent that had some typical planchet pitting, and had very fine details. It was one of the nicest I have ever seen since in person. He is not a coin collector. The same day he showed me an antique Single Action Army 1873 engraved revolver with ivory grips that was his grandfathers. A two drool day!  He told me that when he was a kid, he was at a boy scout camp and the Half Cent was shining in the creek or lake shore in the water. True story that I saw the Half Cent, whether his story was true I cannot say but I believe it was. At the time, I was nuts about type coins, but he wasn't going to part with it. I told him it was worth a couple/few thousand dollars which was only a dream for me to have either the coin or the money. Since then, I always wanted one and they have tripled in value since yet I still don't own a head facing left, one year only, low mintage type coin! |
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My grandson's grandmother (on my son-in-law's side) was a volunteer at a Goodwill store. See was cleaning out a donated pocketbook, found this coin and sent it to my grandson as a gift. How is THAT for a nice find?   |
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Pillar of the Community
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That should have been "she", not "see"
My bad.
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Pillar of the Community
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@TNG Who know's got a landmark birthday coming up?
@fplagge, what a golden suprise!
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Interesting and nice finds!  |
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i love these stories.
i seem to make some pretty good finds off the ground lately, and every one of those is a surprise to me.
last week I found a south korean 100 won coin in the grass median of a parking lot. I find a good deal of foreign coins, my roommate is the lucky recipient of all of them.
...but I find so much so often that it's hard to determine which is more unusual: what I find or where I find it or how much or how many... more stories than my brain can keep up with, but I guess my best unusual find is an 1871 california gold fractional half dollar I found in an attic many years ago. it was unusual because the attic was an 80s add-on to a house built in the 40s or 50s...
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It must have been about 35 or so years ago, but I was at the city park for a kids birthday party. A guy pushing on of those little ice cream carts was walking by and my kids asked me for some money to buy and ice cream bar. I gave each of them a dollar and when they brought me the change I put it in my pocket. I got home, emptied my pocket, and found a 1942 Mercury dime. I still have the dime but I'm not sure which one it is because it's in a 2X2 along with a bunch of other mercurys I've picked up along the way. |
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Pillar of the Community
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That's pretty cool! I bet you wish it was an 1894-S 10C though! What's spent on ice cream is given back with ice cream.
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Nice finds! |
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