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 Posted 10/04/2014  2:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add shadz to your friends list
1927 Australian 3 pence.

Not only is it silver, it is old, and it is from the other side of the planet! So beats my IHC or V nickel just because how much traveling it did to come to me as if it were just a normal dime.
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 Posted 10/04/2014  5:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Demarco Bishopp to your friends list
Well, I'm quite proud that I've been able to put together an entire collection of decimal pennies just from coins in circulation. We only adopted a decimal currency in 1971 so it was really easy to find a circulation example from each year, 1971-2014.

The only exception is 1972 which was released in proof only and so doesn't count. I could get one but it would mean buying an otherwise pointless 1972 proof set.
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10/04/2014 5:26 pm
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 Posted 10/04/2014  5:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Amwyll Rwden to your friends list
I received an uncirculated Cypriot 5 cent piece from the grocery store, a Monacan 2 Euro in change from McDonalds, and found that I had an 1898 Swiss half frank in my pocket when the parking meter refused to accept it.
Looking through ones change has gotten much more interesting in Europe since 2002!
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 Posted 10/04/2014  6:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Wade to your friends list
off metal error (supposed to bi-metallic) ,
found in pocket change (got it back from 7-11)

$750.00



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 Posted 10/05/2014  07:41 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list
Lowest mintage: one of these Armenian 50 dram commemoratives (don't recall which one offhand). Sure, they aren't particularly rare or valuable, but at 50,000 mintage that coin would beat anything else I could've found anyway.
Most valuable: slightly off-center Israeli 10 sheqel. It's a bit of a joke example - I hadn't found any other coins worth more than 10 sheqel (at that time, about $2.5; these days closer to $3).
Most unexpected non-foreign: Israeli 1986 "Edmond de Rothschild" 1/2 sheqel commemorative. (I think I should note that by "non-foreign" I mean that the coin was found in the respective country.)
Most unexpected foreign given by a cashier: Italian 20 lira 1973 (in Russia). Heard rumors of US golden dollars turning up in circulation, never actually got to see any.
Most unexpected foreign found when literally checking change (already given): Polish 50 groszy 1995... not many coins in that particular category.
Oldest: Soviet 20 kopek 1961. Not particularly interesting, and common enough that I think I've had two. Unfortunately, chances are that, unless I visit the US or Switzerland, my change will never have anything older.

I don't know what the "prettiest" coin was (Serbian and Armenian coinage is just generally pretty, but it probably doesn't count if I found it in Serbia and Armenia respectively, and I hadn't kept much records of cashier-given foreigns; could be one of the 10-ruble bimetallics, but I have no idea which one specifically).

If you wonder, my Armenian and Serbian visits were both in 2014, I've been to Israel many times but these particular coins were found in 2012, and I think the rest was in 2013 but I don't recall specifically.
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 Posted 10/05/2014  09:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ghostrider to your friends list
january1may from your description of coins founds you do seem to be in an area where you can find interesting. Plus the amount of travel that you do sure adds to those very interesting finds.

I've been to Mexico, Bermuda, and a few other countries but only received U.S. coins in change.
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 Posted 10/05/2014  10:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
Problem with question is no time frame. Remember that some members are old so when they were taking coins out of change, some of those are now called rare or just expensive. For example when I was a kid, I filled my Lincoln Cent Folder with all from change including 09S VDB and 14D and 22 plain. Of course this was so long ago, not many coin collectors around. Roosevelt dimes not invented yet same with many other coins we use today. Way back you could fill an Indian Head Nickel book from change in a matter of days.
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 Posted 10/05/2014  10:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Rackster to your friends list
Good point Carl - context is everything!
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 Posted 10/05/2014  11:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hcmusicguy to your friends list
I have a few...
1995 ASE
1964 Canadian silver dollar
1867 3-cent nickel
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 Posted 10/05/2014  11:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Harmonica to your friends list
hcmusicguy, care to give us the context behind finding an ASE in your change?
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 Posted 10/05/2014  1:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jpsned to your friends list

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For example when I was a kid, I filled my Lincoln Cent Folder with all from change including 09S VDB and 14D and 22 plain.
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 Posted 10/05/2014  6:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list

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For example when I was a kid, I filled my Lincoln Cent Folder with all from change including 09S VDB and 14D and 22 plain.

BUT remember when I was a kid coins like that were just as common as a 2005 coin is today. Maybe more so since so few people collected coins.
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 Posted 10/06/2014  08:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add scopru to your friends list
I would say although not the most rare or expensive, a 1938 nickel. Always gets my imagination going trying to think of all the places this coin may have been.
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10/06/2014 08:15 am
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 Posted 10/28/2014  6:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add magpie to your friends list
Found a rare mis-strike $1, half the lettering on the back was missing, sold it for nearly $200. that was a nice find :)
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 Posted 10/28/2014  6:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add srcliff to your friends list
Got a really dramatic nickle error last year, I have found a couple of 64 JFKs, a few Buffalo nickels, merc dimes, silver Roosevelts and one silver Roosevelt proof. Nothing mind blowing but fun stuff!
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