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New Member
United States
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I thought you guys might appreciate this story. A few nights ago I was searching 480 US nickels I got from a local bank and in them I found one of my best finds yet! In one hand roll there was an odd foreign coin that was greater in diameter than the US nickels. I didn't know what it was at first, but on closer inspection I realized it was some sort of very old British coin. I did some quick research and realized I had found an 1831 Great Britain Farthing! Previous to this find the oldest coin I had found was an Indian Head penny from 1864. The condition of that coin is total crap compared to this one too. 178 years old! I can't believe it. Image:  1831_british_penny-30.jpg98.56 KB Edited by kestrelia
03/25/2009 3:19 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Wow...what an amazing find in a US nickels, and that's in pretty good condition too--congrats!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4541 Posts |
Amazing find!. I want to find something like this when I search nickels  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3499 Posts |
kestrelia- Absolutely amazing! Congrads!
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Moderator
 United States
23731 Posts |
Outstanding find. What up with the date? It looks like it's been altered and the 3 looks like a 7. Can you post a closer picture of the date?
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New Member
 United States
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here's a close up of the date. I don't know enough about british coins to know if it is out of the ordinary. I'm guessing not, though. Image: date.jpg9.97 KB |
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Moderator
United States
23731 Posts |
From what I can see the date is either miss struck or has been altered to from 1831 to 1871. It seems strange that someone would put a later date on this coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Really neat find! I am partial to Farthings myself.
Edited by TNG
03/26/2009 09:41 am
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Valued Member
Canada
304 Posts |
I have a 1837 farthing with the same odd '3' in the date. One year later the 1838 Victoria farthing '3' was slightly re-tooled to correct this flaw.   |
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Valued Member
United States
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I have so many Farthings that are in EF shape between 1840 to 1899 you would not beleive.
I guess they are so small they have no wear?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2541 Posts |
Very nice find! I think you may have the best roll find ever out of anyone on this whole forum!
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Valued Member
Australia
126 Posts |
wow nice find!
and its in pretty good condition as well!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
I've been through over 10,000 rolls of nickels; never found anything like that! Great Find!!
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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nice find |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Cool find, my weirdest circulation find was a Netherlands Antilles 25c in place of a US nickel.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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nice find.according to my books,when the coin dies became worn letters and numbers were weak in apearance
they had to be restruck by hand with a punch,resulting in doubled or sometimes trebled charecters,
this was commom place during the time .
but major misalignment only adds value to the coin.
ie 1838 variety DEF. has only one dot where there should be a colon
1840 " " DEF..has two horizontal dots instead of a colon
and many more 7over7, 2pronged tridents ,inverted V for A's and so on.
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Posted 03/25/2009 5:28 pm
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