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Valued Member
Canada
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Imagine my shock when I'm going through rolls of Canadian pennies from the bank when out spills a 1913 no mint Wheatie, and in another a 1917 no mint Wheatie! (both pretty worn but still..) Definitely not what I expected! What's your story like this? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2651 Posts |
My story is we want pics!
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Bedrock of the Community
13014 Posts |
I didnt get to keep the coin but 2 days ago I was looking into the charity change donation box and low and behold laying on top was some sort of coin from Finland. Couldnt see all of it just the word finland. Couldnt bring myself to ask to sort the charity box though so hopefully they can do something with it to help the cause.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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um... nothing crazy yet here. I had a good roll of cents last night. 20+ copper including a common wheatie plus a shiny 2009D and an '87 Canada cent. Meh. :)
Recently I was able to sort through some coins of a friend and after the usual "no, even though it's 100 years old, it's well-worn and it's not worth much. Yes, I know, that doesn't seem fair. That shiny '43 cent is plated, sorry..." talk, we found an old Iowa commemorative 50c piece and an old 5 Deutschmark piece. Each is worth its weight in Ag of course but numismatic-wise they're worth $100 or more so that's nice.
~ CK
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Valued Member
United States
228 Posts |
My grandfather sent me a bag of Coins from all over the world in 2006 that year I joined the army and never got around to sorting through it After my tour of duty I opened it up last week and what a history lesson I embarked upon. Coins from most European countries dating back to the 1910s. Plus Central and south America, the Caribbean, Korea, Vietnam, etc. Never forget that. Thanks Grandpa!
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Valued Member
Canada
316 Posts |
I went to the bank to get some rolls of pennies to search and in the mix was a roll of 5 cent. in that roll was a 1964 extra water line.
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New Member
United States
40 Posts |
I used to work at a carwash by the name of Waterway. Every week you had to clean out the pit, where all the mud drains to off the cars. Part of this is you also have to clean a nearby sewer. One night I cleared the sewer of all leaves and excess trash and saw a bunch of coins at the bottom. I started scraping them up with my hand and got a small coffee cup full of junky coins. I threw them in my rock tumbler for a night and sorted through the next day. I found about $15.00 in US coinage and a $2 2002 Australian coin. I thought it was so bizarre that a coin from that far away could end up in the middle of the US! |
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I've seen a few Kennedy, presidential and half and dollar coins pass through while working at the cash register. I asked my manager if I could keep a canadian cent that I spotted in the drawer. He said yes. I don't think it's anything special, but upon seeing a 1964 Kennedy half dollar a few days ago, I now wish I had asked for it! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
863 Posts |
I can't believe you didn't keep the 64moisture kennedy. You should have dropped 2to quarters in
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New Member
United States
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I went to the car wash the other day and in the return change area, I found a 1964 quarter. I wonder if the silver weight of the quarter rejected the quarter.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7840 Posts |
I found two war nicks (43-P's, no 3 over 2's) in one of those clear plastic rolls last weekend...you bet I dropped a dime in the till for that!
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Went to Taco Bell last week for lunch. The girl at the drive up window asked me if I wanted "this" for change. I looked up and saw she was holding a large dollar coin. I said of course, thinking it was an Ike. She handed me my change and lo and behold was a 1922 Peace dollar. I asked her if she had more but unfortunately she did not. It has some bad rim bruises but hey, it's not bad for face! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7840 Posts |
Wow dave700x...talk about "ringing" your bell!
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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OK, not exactly awesome but just about as awesome as it gets for me. One of my grandmothers, who lives in Israel, learned somehow that I collect coins, and asked many people she knew (mostly relatives) to get some coins from their various travels. And when I came to visit her a few months ago, she gave these coins to me. A major part of the coins were European, but there were several other ones (including a Thai commem 1 baht) and a few from the USA. One of the US coins was a Wheat cent. Now, none of the people she asked collect coins themselves, so most likely whoever brought it somehow got it in change. Weird already. But that wasn't the strangest part. When I returned to Moscow, I looked up that wheat in US Coin Facts (this site's version of it anyway). And apparently, that date (1955-S) has the lowest mintage since 1940! Certainly not your average common wheat... Oh, and did I mention that at VF grade it's currently the best preserved Wheat cent in my collection? |
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United States
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My grandmother worked at a department store called woolworths around 60 years ago, and was in charge of the automatic currency machines or whatever they are called... Well anyway she could buy anything the machines rejected for face... Lots of large cents, as well as other such things. Sadly, she sold most of it awhile ago, and the only ones I ever will get are the ones that survived her selling most of them off. I haven't found too much exciting , a $1 silver certificate star notes in a pile of old papers (as well as about 15 frankin and Walking Liberty half dollars, which given that it is my basement is quite an accomplishment), as well as a few rare wheaties (out of a pile of about 4,500, mind you). My father once found $15,000 in small bills in the basement of a reletive that he was helping move (yes, he gave them back) |
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 United States
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Not really that strange, but I pulled a 1985 Jamaica 50 cent piece (km65) from inside a tape deck when I was doing car stereo repair during the 1990's. Unfortunately, this foreign object (see what I did there?) was the least of the tape deck's problems.  |
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