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Oldest Coins You've Found In Change?

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 Posted 01/02/2009  12:01 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KurtS to your friends list
I think it was a 1911 cent--barely legible
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 Posted 01/02/2009  12:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list
Pocket change? That is a good question.

The oldest coin that I found roll hunting is the 1911 Barber dime in my 7070.

I would have to guess that a 1938 Nickel would be the oldest from normal pocket change.
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 Posted 01/02/2009  12:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add 49thStateofMind to your friends list
1911 wheatie
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 Posted 01/02/2009  12:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinsrus to your friends list
Roll Searching from everyday bank rolls 1893 IHC.
From change that I received from a purchase like a 1940's Wheatie
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 Posted 01/02/2009  01:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ceaton to your friends list
1904 Indian Head cent. It was badly corroded though :(
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 Posted 01/02/2009  01:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sir Ferrari to your friends list
Pocket Change:

1897 Liberty nickel
1943 Mercury dime

Roll Hunting:

1909-p Lincoln Cent
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 Posted 01/02/2009  01:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wd1040 to your friends list
Sooo... buying milk today at the local Safeway. I was going to use a card, but I remember I had this really tattered and browned 5 I got yesterday at SF Chinatown...

So I used it and what is this? A 1918 cent?

Best tasting milk I have ever bought! *sob*
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 Posted 01/02/2009  01:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Elimist to your friends list
This is going to be a hard one for me because I don't roll hunt. If you only include items I have found in either my pocket change....

Cent - 1926 wheat
Nickel - A dateless bufflo, but I have found a 1938 jefferson
Dime - 1943 Mercury dime
Quarter - 1942
Half - 1971
Dollar - 1979 Susie B.
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 Posted 01/02/2009  02:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Texas collector to your friends list
Someone paid me at Wal Mart with a 1909 VDB Wheat cent. A coin dealer told me it could grade between MS-60-63. It's the best looking coin, regardless of date, in my 1909-1958 album. Second place find is a 1923 Buffalo from the register at least VG.
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 Posted 01/02/2009  03:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TNG to your friends list
Some very worn common Liberty V nickels on occasion, ( more often than Buffalo's ) and many wheat cents, a few Mercury dimes, a lot of silver Roosevelt dimes, and a few silver Washington quarters and some 64 Kennedy's and other 40% halves.
Funny thing, I don't look hard at pocket change anymore but can still spot an oddball without my glasses occasionally as the better coins seem to jump out at me anyway.
Recently I remember getting two UNC RED 1962 D Lincolns at the same time and a Nice RED 1944 Wheat cent last week. They just have such a different appearance from newer coins even at arms length.
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 Posted 01/02/2009  03:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Steel Talon to your friends list
1911 Wheat cent

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 Posted 01/02/2009  05:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Magman to your friends list
odd, 1911 Wheat cent's seem to be common o_O
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 Posted 01/02/2009  09:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wheatnut to your friends list
In change the oldest coins I've found are
Cent 1940S
Nickel 1939
Dime 1965
Quarter 1965
Half I havent found any halves in change
Dollars same here

In roll hunting
Cent 1904 ihp
Nickel dateless buffalo
Dimes 1965
Quarters 1965
Halves 1971
Dollars 1971
ive gone through only about $60 in dimes, $40 in Quarters & $100 in halves
nothing but a canadian dime.
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 Posted 01/02/2009  10:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nod2003 to your friends list
oldest in change was a 1909-P Lincoln Cent.
Oldest roll hunting was a 1935 Walker half and a 1935 British Penny
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 Posted 01/02/2009  1:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mycrob to your friends list
Oldest from change: 1912 wheat, 1938 Jefferson, 1963 FDR dime, 1964 Washington quarter, half- never got one in change, dollar- never got one in change, but did get them from vending machines- 1979P/D/S SBA

Oldest from roll hunting: 1907 Indian cent (VG), 1927 Buffalo nickel, 1945 Mercury dime, 1960 Washington quarter, 1940 Walker half, 1971 Ike
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