Your Best Coin From Pocket Change

Nice find from change! The rarest coin I have noticed receiving in change is probably the 2000P nickel (the other day from Tim Horton's). I have found better stuff by roll-hunting, though.

I was also excited to have found a 1941-S large S Jefferson nickel from change while recently visiting the US. It's not too rare or expensive. But that was one of the few remaining entries on my Jefferson nickel list, and I got it in change from In-N-Out burger!

Anytime I am lucky enough to get real silver in change, I consider it to be a score. Usually, though, it's just for the melt value, because I have rarely found a really nice coin (condition-wise) that way.

I usually have better luck finding cash on the sidewalk, actually.

My best find in change had to be a 1909 US penny, although I didn't know it at the time. Whenever I go to the U.S., I pay attention to my change, and anything that looks like it's worth checking out later goes into the other pocket -- this includes Wheat cents, and anything that looks saveable. I am forever putting State Quarters into the other pocket to check out later, not to mention anything that looks "old".