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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This is only a "strange place" because the other person involved actually knows the monetary value involved here--he's old enough to be my dad and he's been collecting since he was seven.
I have a guy who comes in on a regular basis to buy scratch tickets. Every so often he wins big and tips me 10% (one week, that twenty-five bucks bought my groceries after another bill came out early--great timing, universe!). The big problem is, this is a guy with money to spend, so he'll come in, and come in, and come in, and next thing you know in an hour I've barely been able to move from behind the counter.
So two days ago he comes in and goes "Hey, guess what I found!" and drops something on the counter. I hear a clink and see a flash of silver, and he scoops it up before I can grab it to take a look. His total profit for the day (which is to say, after he bought a couple more tickets because he has some weird system that he thinks actually works, even though ticket packs are totally random) was about thirty bucks--no tip for Nina, or so I thought, until he flicked his scratcher-coin in the air and went "catch! This is for the time you spend waiting on me."
1961 quarter!
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 United States
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I love "finds" with a story. Very nice!  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
10625 Posts |
The only thing better than silver at face value is free. Great story.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
Many years ago I found a 1943 Mercury dime sitting on top of the pitching rubber at a local baseball field. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1088 Posts |
I am envious of some of these stories! Wish I had one of my own
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New Member
United States
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The parents of a good friend of mine own a liquor store, and about 2 years ago a man paid for a bottle of scotch with change, and in that pile of change was an 1892 Columbus Commemerative Half Dollar! As with any neat coin they find, his parents gave to coin to my friend Tommy and he sold it to me for $10! Who knows where that coin has been!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In 1966 the day after we moved from San Jose to Santa Cruz I found a 1917-S Mercury dime not an inch from the concrete which ran the width of the back of the house laying on top of the dirt. That's what got me started looking for old coins. About ten years later my mother knocked out a shelf in the wall downstairs, same house, and out dropped a 1912-S Barber dime from behind the board. Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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Valued Member
Canada
306 Posts |
I don't really have any strange stories like that (other than stuff out of the cash drawer) but I have also found a 1913 Wheat penny in a roll in Canada. It was in the same roll as a 1943 steel penny!  |
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New Member
United States
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Nearly 40 years ago, a small boy came into my father's bakery in upstate New York to purchase a dozen of his delicious cupcakes for the then princely sum of 96 cents. He paid my father with an 1878 Morgan dollar. I still own the coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Onecenter, that's awesome.
I'm going to share one of my mom's: in the mid-80s, she worked in a comic shop, and picked up a nice little collection of Mercs and similar coins from kids who raided Mom and Dad's change jar to get the newest comic. This particular kid was buying The Amazing Spider-Man, a thing my mom says she will never forget. You see, the kid handed her this teensy little gold thing and tried to tell her it was a dollar. She was pretty sure it was fake, but the kid was so insistent and my mom was so intrigued she finally put a dollar of her own in the drawer, made change, and took his coin.
After work she got it appraised by her jeweler, and boy was she in for a surprise . . .
. . . . very real, very valuable California gold rush dollar! I think she still has it. I'll ask if it's in a place where I can take pics for you all.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Simple story....Applebee's for lunch today...pay for lunch...get change. Get to car...examine change ( don't we all? :-) ). Lo and behold....a 1961 Canadian dime! Finding silver in circulation is hard enough...but a Canadian coin no less! What are the chances? :-)
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New Member
United States
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My Aunt found some old coins in her change. Two 1964 Washington quarters One 1940's Liberty Head (have to check the date again). One 1936 Indian Head Nickel Two Wheat pennies. This was all in a lump sum of change! |
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Valued Member
United States
280 Posts |
The other day at the local H-E-B, I looked into the "rejected coin" slot of a CoinStar, and found a 1952 Roosevelt dime! I've also found silver quarters, silver dimes, Buffalo nickels, and wheat-ear pennies in change from the same store! |
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Valued Member
United States
280 Posts |
I just remembered an awesome coin I saw but wasn't able to get =(
In a local Taco-Bell a while back, I saw an unusually large in a donation box. Upon closer inspection, I saw that it was a 'Confederate Sates of America' half-dollar in MINT condition! I asked if they could take it out, but they didn't have the key.... I wounder what they do with stuff like that?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I once had a 1943 Merc literally roll up to me while I was at my locker in middle school a couple years ago.
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