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Valued Member
United States
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OK, What was the oldest coin you ever found? (and where and how found!). Now relatives and such have "given" me old coins.... and I have payed for a few old coins.......But this is what I "Found"! I found/bought an old US Mail stamp machine, covered in dust,under the shelves in an old thrift store. With a dime incerted and the handle cranked, the machine gave you two 5 cent stamps or three 3 cent stamps. After I picked the lock, I found two and a half 3 cent stamps, half of a 5 cent stamp, and a 1938 Mercury dime in the cash box. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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We bought another house from 1898 and was sanding an old floorboard and there was a hole and in it was a 1927 Wheat penny. Not in really good condition but I was surprised, mostly since we live in Canada. Yours is interesting also. (: |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1151 Posts |
My family and I rented a house and in the crawlspace we found a safe from when the house was built and we found a $20 St. Gaudens.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I think this was recently gone over. Maybe a moderator could find that one or the many like it. I know I feel like not to long ago either.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1007 Posts |
Altho I live in the USA I found a silver 1870 Canadian 5 cent coin laying on the floor of a warehouse in 1980. At the time it was 110 years old and I've kept it ever since. About 20 years ago my Dad had a metal detector and dug up a heavily damaged 1866 Shield nickel. Haven't found anything interesting lately. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3345 Posts |
carl, I think that was the oldest find rollsearching. I found a 1887 IHC metal detecting. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1801 Posts |
My son and I found a handful of 1715 Spanish "pieces of eight" metal detecting in Florida. Of course we were detecting in the area of a 1715 ship wreck so that improved our odds of finding anything.
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 United States
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1903 & 1908-S IHC while metal detecting. swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I still don't get why people feel like they need to be the thread gestapo. Anyway, my oldest find was an 1888 IHC in a roll. |
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Australia
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I once found an old tin moneybox under my grandparent's house; apparently they'd put it there when they moved into the house in the 1950s and had forgotten about it. There were four or five coins in it; if I recall correctly, the oldest was 1948, while the ones from 1953 were virtually Unc.
My only older "find" probably doesn't really count. Back in 2006, a friend gave me a Russian 1915 10 kopeks to identify and value. I did so, but apparently I promptly lost it, because two years later I found it sitting on the floor under the sofa. He let me buy it for its new and improved catalogue value.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote:carl, I think that was the oldest find rollsearching. I found a 1887 IHC metal detecting. Could be. Old age you know. Problem is no time allocated so with people like me, oldest coin found is so many from back when I was a kid. I still remember using so many Sitting Liberty Dimes as regular coins in change. Everyone used Walking Liberty half dollars since they were the ones in change. Indian Head cents were common in change. If only I knew then what I know now. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I haven't really found anything too old, but my wife is a cashier and found a 1909 svdb penny and gave it to me about two years ago. It's in really nice shape, just has some decent rim damage though.
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Valued Member
United States
230 Posts |
I found an 1853 large cent while digging deck footers on my dad's house and a no date draped bust while metal detecing on time.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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my oldest finds are all in my signature :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've dug dozens of pre-1880 coins in the last year or two, the oldest being a 1758 spanish silver in a Michigan farmyard, second oldest a 1807 KGIII halfpenny in a Michigan park.
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Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Posted 10/17/2011 9:13 pm
