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New Member
United States
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I made a purchase this year and got 75 cents in change. All three quarters were bicentennial quarters. I know that they're common, but it seemed unusual, and I was pleasantly surprised.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1088 Posts |
Found two wheaties under some carpet in my parents house last week when we pulled it up.
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Valued Member
United States
104 Posts |
While remodeling our house, which was built in 1912, my wife found a "penny" behind the baseboard. She asked me how much is a 1864 penny worth? I replied I have no idea I only mess with US coins, but if its an 1864 Cent.....now that's a different story. As it turns out, not only was it a VF 1864 Indian Head cent, it was the 1864 with L variety....needless to say the new drywall was free for that room... :) |
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Valued Member
Italy
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Some years ago my grandma called me saying she has got some interesting change in a shop in Switzerland, so I had a look and it was a 1931 silver 5 franc coin! Not bad for face value... I love circulating silver!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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1980P Lincoln Memorial Cent- 1DO-001
Coin was just laying on the ground in a parking lot and had been run over and the reverse was pretty chewed up, but the Obverse was decent and it was the Doubled Die!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
937 Posts |
I grew up in a house that was built sometime before 1732. No one was able to date it as it was standing when the town was incorporated in 1732. My parents bought it furnished with all contents. Well the furnishings were all 1930s or earlier so I grew up surrounded by antiques. We found numerous silver coins in the furniture and in between floorboards, but my favorite and the only one I still have is an 1865 Three Cent piece in XF that we found when we replaced the tin ceiling in the living room. |
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Valued Member
United States
274 Posts |
Nothing of great value, but a pretty neat surprise to get a 1969S and 1969 penny in the same change together, then later in the same day to get a 1969D in change. Those were the only pennies in my change that day, so it wasn't like I cherry picked them to try to make a set or anything. What are the odds?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6130 Posts |
Years ago my buddy from high school was about to bring a huge jar of change to a coinstar to get that week's gas money. He knew I collected and asked me to double check to make sure he wasn't getting rid of anything good. I found a 1909 VDB, a smattering of wheats, Canadians, a few old nickels, and some foreigns including 2 counterfeit UK pound coins with mushy details and hand-engraved edge lettering. I expected a couple wheats and maybe a Canadian or two.
Similar story, my wife worked as a waitress before we started dating, and she kept all of her tips in a pickle jar in her old room. She was about to take it to the bank, but I talked her into letting her coin hound of a boyfriend sift through it first. Found a 1964-D dime in the first two minutes.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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I was trying to get a complete set of circulating French coinage before the Euro was introduced. Other than NIFCs and a few dates with mintages below 100,000, my only gap was the 1967 5 centimes, which is very elusive. On the last day of my holiday in Brittany I had a drink at a bar, and gave the waitress a banknote. When she returned, among the change was - my elusive gap filler!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1358 Posts |
About 9 years ago in middle school, a 1943 Merc dime literally rolled up to me while I was at my locker. The person who dropped it didn't pick it up, so I kept it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4809 Posts |
Ever feel like a coin had magnetic attraction? 2 finds come to mind - - Waiting to go to church, my brother and I ran out into the woods to an old dump site. We used to find old milk bottles and things but on that day, I saw something the size of a penny - a 1905 IHC. - Waiting in line inside a bar, I saw a penny on a dimly lit table - a 1943 steel penny. Common enough coins, but the last place I was looking to find a coin. Fun finds! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I found the penny used in my avatar when I dug into my pocket to pay for a fountain drink @ a gas station. I noticed it felt funny. After seeing why it felt odd, I pulled out the debit card. I was exactly 1 penny shy for a cash payment, Cest la vie.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
500 Posts |
it feels a little weird being able to add a new finding method to a thread like this after 2 years, but it appears that I can.
as the people in us classics have been able to read for a couple days, I found 6 large silver coins in the bottom of a 60 gallon trash bag at a gas station.
not only did I come away with $50 in silver content, I came away with an XF to AU details 1938-D semi-key Walker for free!
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 United States
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Sorry for the long and silly build up, but here goes. When I found this pair of coins in January of 2000, I was looking for them and I'm VERY happy to say I was lucky enough to find them. At the time I found them, they were thought to be nothing special, but as it turned out, no one caught the fact that a reverse die not intended for the production coins was used to strike one of the coins of this rare pair. It took five years for the fact that these 5500 coins were different than the 767,140,000 normal reverse 2000-P coins to be discovered and subsequently documented. I had hopes this interesting, different way to promote a new product from the US Mint might make them worth $100 or more in the future. I made sure to store them in the original mint certified packaging and even kept the outer box in which I found them. As I understand it, only about 200 of the 5500 coins minted have been found and graded, with the top auction price for a set of the coins on Heritage sold for $34,500.00!  The prices have pulled far back from that figure, but they still sell for thousands. So, the strangest place I ever found a rare coin was in a box of Cheerios!  By the way, my wife ate the Cheerios from the inner bag while they were still fresh. I'm not very fond of the actual cereal.  The only way to be 100% sure that my SAC is a 2000-P Detailed Tail Feather reverse is to open the packaging and look, but I'll be sending them to PCGS to have that done. I'm 99.99% sure that the I have the 2000-P with the 1999 reverse because of a documented obverse die marker. Each of the "Cheerios Dollars" have a small area of die polish on the obverse of each Sacagawea dollar pattern coin. My coin shows this small mark just below the P mint mark.  As a side note, the mint also struck 39 2000-W 22-karat Gold Proof Sacagawea dollars using the same reverse die design. All but 12 of these coins were melted down and the 12 remaining coins were sent into space aboard the space shuttle Columbia flight STS-93. (Even thought these coins have a W mint mark, they were not struck at West Point, but at the Philadelphia Mint.) Sorry to go on so long, but this was my best find ever and I love to tell the story to anyone who'll listen.  To read more and see the details on this coin, go to http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page20c.htmlBen ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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