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Rest in Peace
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Thanks Terry.
Hope you have the opportunity for a good "stand" when it comes to hunting the wiley buffalo.
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Checking my change today and I found probably the lightest foreign coin I have ever seen.
Belize. 5 cents. 1993.
About the size of a U.S. nickel.
So light, I'm not even sure it's aluminum.
Sort of a coincidence in that I expect to be in Belize in about two weeks.
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I found a 1989-S Proof Roosevelt dime. It looked strange right away - it had almost perfect details and was completely toned - and when I saw it had an -S- mintmark, I was pretty sure it had to be a proof, and of course it is. I know it has little value over face value, but it's a very cool coin to have found in change and it's both fun and instructive to examine it. It's got what appear to be slide marks on the obverse, and the entire reverse looks like its coated in porcelain. The coin's luster has mostly been toned away, but held at the proper angle under a lamp, the mirrors show and you can see that not only is it a proof, it is a CAM or even DCAM that somehow slipped into circulation. |
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It's been a while since I found anything, but tonight I did.
It wasn't a 50 cent piece.
It was a Mexican 10 Peso, dated, I think 1998, but hard to read. Bi-Metalic, Mexico City mint, pretty beat up.
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I found only my first Lewis & Clark nickel a couple days ago, the most interesting coin I've found in change in months. <gloom>
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Pillar Of The Community
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MorganFred your luck is about as bad as mine! I haven't found anything for so long I have about quit looking.
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Pillar of the Community
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All I've found is a couple of common date wheat cents...sigh. Maybe I really have found all the cool stuff to find?  Rachel [:p] |
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I received a 1920 VF wheatie in change the other day. I knew as soon as the cashier put it in my hand that it was a wheatie but I certainly wasnt expecting that nice chocolate brown 85 year old cent.
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Two Wheaties, 1944 d and 1952 d. 1967 Canadian penny.  Mike |
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Pillar of the Community
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I took a look in my pockets today. I found a Shequel and 10 Agrot.[:0] The only thing unusual about it is I thought I was broke....  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Upon further review (been watching too many football games- go Colts!!), one of the wheat cents I found the other day is a 1936, slightly better date than normal. Rachel [:p] |
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This was found in circulation, but, unfortunately, not by me. I was at my favorite convenience store tonight when the clerk showed me a coin brought in earlier in the day by a customer. It was a 1938D dime, very fine I would say. I told her its value wasn't much, but she was thrilled to have it, as well she should have been. It's been a long, long, long time since I've found a Mercury dime. |
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I guess circulation finds don't have to be old and rare in order to be interesting.
Here in Colorado I have found numerous new and shiny coins in my pocket almost every day. In addition, my local bank supplies me with the new coins each time I ask.
Perhaps its the nearness of the Denver mint?
As I prepare to wrap myself in the arms of Morpheus this Sunday night, here are the new and shiny 2005 coins I find in my pocket:
2 Oregon quarters
4 Kansas quarters
8 Lincoln cents.
2 Ocean In View nickels.
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I would say mint location has a lot to do with it but the limited intelligence in me knows better. How close is your nearest Federal Reserve bank as that is where circulating coinage originates from? We seldom see any new coinage in this area and still have not seen a buffalo (new) or the Ocean in View in change. Eventually a few of the Statehood Quarters will show up or a few rolls of Lincoln cents but that is about the extent of it. |
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