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Valued Member
United States
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I haven't found any silver, unfortunately. But I have found a 28 Buffalo nickel, and a dateless Buffalo. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quote:That I find very hard to swallow. Are you sure you don't mean an 1868 coppernickel Three Cent piece? It is the same size as a dime, and the 1868 is a common date. An 1868 silver Three Cent is less than 2/3rds the size of a dime and the 1868 is a rarity Condor101, you are correct,it is a nickel 3-cent piece. I was going by memory and that's not quite what it used to be. When you mentioned "rarity", I knew I had probably messed up. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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When Australia was still on Pounds shillings and Pence, a friend of our family found a George 111 shilling of 1820 in change. I was asked to identify it. I was still a student in high school in those days.
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Valued Member
United States
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In Colorado in the 1960's we still used dollars so I guess a 1878 Morgan. In the early 1970's gas pumps still took dollars. Seriously: put in a dollar, turn the crank, put in another dollar turn the crank, put in another one turn the crank and the '62 Chevy was full...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
917 Posts |
For me, in natural change, a 1953 Roosevelt. In roll searching, a 1934 Washington (and silver quarters have been a dry spell ever since for me).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4778 Posts |
Oldest silver I've found is a 1935-D quarter that I got from a coinstar In actual pocket change, my oldest is a extremely beat-up 1943-P War Nickel (this thing is beyond abused- but hey it's still silver!) |
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United States
497 Posts |
I had posted in October of 2010, to update my oldest find, I have found a '34 Standing Liberty Half dollar.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The problem with this posts question is there is no time frame given. Some people here have only been collecting for several years and others for many, many years. For some of us really, really old people the so called oldest coins found in change are coins that hardly exist today. For example Mercury dimes were almost still new when I was a kid. Seated Liberty dimes were kind of common. There was no such thing as a Roosevelt dime. Don't even think he was anything yet. Standing Liberty quarters were as common as Liberty Head Quarters. ALL Silver Dollars were so common no one hardly collected them. We just spent them all. Oldest Silver coin found in change? Probably Bust type Dimes but those too were not so rare way, way back. |
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United States
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+ldest silver I found in circulation was a 1904 Barber dime about 6 months ago. Doubt I'd ever find another. |
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United States
95 Posts |
1879 Morgan, part of a cache of 17 Morgans and other misc. silver that I found one day... http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/...PIC_ID=54068I doubt I'll ever come close to that again. But I really hope that I, or others, do... with the poor economy, you never know what people will cash in, and combined with ignorance on the part of both owner and teller, plus good luck, a collector can and will make out. |
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United States
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United States
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A few years ago, a customer spent a '36 Walker at my work. The cashier she gave it to knew it was special, but I was able to buy it off of her for $5.
Oldest I've actually gotten for face value were two '46 dimes. One (XF and toned) was given to me by a customer 2.5 years ago. The other (G/VG) was in a spare roll of dimes in my till.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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One of the reasons I think why the occasional silver coin turns up in change with modern cupro nickel coins has to do with the patina that silver coins can acquire.
When they match the general appearance of the cupro nickel coins around them, they may well be ignored by anybody who is not looking for them anyway.
That is, until a CCF'er come across one in roll searching or in change, then he / she gleefully post pictures of the find here in our forum!
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United States
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I found a 1939 Washington just a few weeks ago
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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1916 Barber dime for lunch money in 67, which I still have. 1880 Morgan for allowence in 1970. Tough call that was...buy comics or keep the silver dollar......I kept the silver dollar, but the comics I bought the next week are worth more now. Go figure. |
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