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My Oldest Find In Circulation.

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Backstory: I am a bank teller and we have a coin counting machine in our vault. It has a reject bin that we occasionally pick through when it fills up, and sometimes it has come pretty cool stuff in it. Well I was looking through it the other day, and found what is now the oldest coin in my collection. This 1870 Dos Centimos coin from Spain. I'm not really a foreign coin collector at all, but I really love this coin. Beautiful designs front in back, and it's the thinnest coin I have ever seen as well, just .7 MM thick. I seriously could not believe my luck pulling a 145 year old coin out of that thing. Here are some pictures:

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Congrats, even in this condition (~VG) it is worth more than the 1 Cent it was probably used for.
Maybe it's the start of a world coin collection for you. :)
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Just curious, are you in DC? I always get some great world coins in change from the banks in DC. I haven't been up there for a while. I probably will schedule a trip there this summer.
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West Virginia, about 4 hours away from DC. We do get some cool foreign coins still, though. Never anything close to as old as this one though.
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