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12-30-2008, 10:48 PM
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| | U.S. Money Collector
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 3,016
My Mood: | Holy #$&~! Cash Register find of the YEAR!
So, I went to work today at the bakery in the afternoon.
Of course, when I get a chance I look through the money and crack open some rolls when some coinage gets low.
Anyway, it was about an hour and half before I was going to leave, and I decided to crack open a roll of cents, didn't really need to, but I thought it would be fun (I'm sure other people do that too  )
Out pops this:
I thought, "that looks like the reverse of an Indian Head cent! - but maybe it's a foreign coin" (I didn't want to excite myself)
So I flip it over...
yup!!!
Now my oldest coin found in circulation/register 
Previous record was a 1919 Wheat Cent. |
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12-30-2008, 10:57 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN
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Nice!
The best thing I've ever found in a cash register would be a buffalo nickel... not nearly as awesome as that cent.
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12-30-2008, 11:02 PM
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| | Numismatist In Training
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 5,027
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Great find! I've never found an IHC in circulation.
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12-30-2008, 11:02 PM
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| | You get what you pay for.
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Nebraska/Iowa
Posts: 4,760
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wow, thats quite a find to end out the year.
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12-30-2008, 11:04 PM
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| | Coin Hoarder
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,277
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Wow! That cent's in great condition. Who knows how long it's been sitting around in a jar or a drawer somewhere. A great find.
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12-30-2008, 11:09 PM
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| | Darryl - Numismatist
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Steeler Nation
Posts: 4,164
My Mood: | Quote:
Originally Posted by Hobo Great find! I've never found an IHC in circulation. | Ditto - Sweet
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12-30-2008, 11:17 PM
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| | U.S. Money Collector
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 3,016
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Originally Posted by schroeder2246 Nice!
The best thing I've ever found in a cash register would be a buffalo nickel... not nearly as awesome as that cent. | I've found one of those too: http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t42967/
But yeah, this was a great way to end the year... I do work tomorrow and the day after though... but I doubt I can beat this. lol
Heck, I doubt I can beat it next year, but ya never know
I was also surprised that it was from the 1880's. You would think that it would be a later one, like late 1890's onward.
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12-31-2008, 12:11 AM
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| | ANA# R3152287
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Illinois
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Wow!  That is a sweet find. It's probably at least a fine. I'm surprised all the letters in Liberty are visible. That's a rare find.
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12-31-2008, 12:21 AM
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| | Likes Silver
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Missouri
Posts: 3,480
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That is awesome! I really need to get back into roll searching, because now is probably a great time for finds like that, with people cashing in age old buckets of change for gas money and whatnot.
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12-31-2008, 12:45 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: United States of America
Posts: 3,378
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Oh man! So thats where I left it. I was hoping someone would find it and return it to me. Thanks :P
Nice find BTW! I like how you can read Liberty on the head band.
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12-31-2008, 01:00 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
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Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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12-31-2008, 01:03 AM
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| | A closed mind is no mind
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Southern tip of that big pond known as Lake Michigan.
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Nice find Magman.
I think the oldest I ever found was an 1898 Indian and I KNOW I went through a lot more change than you did over the years.
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12-31-2008, 01:08 AM
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| | Dental Student
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Oregon
Posts: 5,374
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Nice find! I have found Buffalo's, a Mercury Dime Walkers, and Franklin Halves...but never an IHC. Awesome find!!! |
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12-31-2008, 01:15 AM
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| | CEO of Brooklyn
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn
Posts: 10,092
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Originally Posted by Hobo Great find! I've never found an IHC in circulation. | When I was a kid they could be occasionally seen, but not anymore.
Ruben
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12-31-2008, 01:16 AM
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| | Coin Collector
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
Posts: 2,040
My Mood: |
thats cool
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