Best Coins Received in Change

So what is the best (or your favorite) coin that you have received as change from a store or some kind of purchase? My best one is a 1903 Barber quarter. Its in pretty bad shape but its the only silver coin I've received as change.

 

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Wow thats pretty good. I have never received any silver in change. I work in a grocery store and am always finding wheats, and silver nickels. They never make it into someone elses hands.

 

Wow thats pretty good. I have never received any silver in change. I work in a grocery store and am always finding wheats, and silver nickels. They never make it into someone elses hands.

 

I'm thinking the last time I rec'd silver in my change would have been sometime in 1965, j/k of course but it has been quite awhile. Good for y'all getting silver, guess it's just not my time, maybe tomorrow.

 

Oh nice, I use to work in a grocery store but I wasn't into coin collecting then. My mother-in-law use to work at a bank and would take all the silver coins she came across and replace them with clad ones. I've found a bunch of wheats and a few Indian head pennies in change as well. Never a silver nickle before though.

 

Yeah, its not a very common occurrence. I haven't found any since I really started collecting and always looking at my change. I found that Barber coin years ago before I even considered myself a collector. I just thought it was cool and put it in a box with a few other random coins that I found over the years.

 

At a toll booth I got a '64 dime once. Only time I've ever gotten silver.

 

Nice

 

A double rev 100 pesos bi metallic, which is not a magicians coin.

 

I got about 10 corroded indian head pennys from CVS once. Got a few and asked if they had any more. They gave me the lot. 10 or 11... it's been 15 years and it's hard to remember.

 

Bought a Slurpee 2 years ago and had a 59 quarter with the change. Earlier this month another Slurpee netted a war nickle in the change.

 

very nice

 

An AU Lincoln 1970-s small date from change.

 

I went to the bank in 1965 to obtain some half dollar rolls to look through and one roll was completely full of walking liberty halves of various grades.Prior to the silver craze you could find a lot at a bank.

 

Somewhere in the giant roll-hunting thread, I posted a photo from three rolls of customer-wrapped halves I got at a local bank. I think there were three non-silver ones in the batch, maybe eight 90%-ers (including some Franklins), and the balance 40%.

Most of the halves are searched out at this point, but there are still people occasionally depositing or spending collections.

Edit: Okay, 4 clad and 7 90% -- Roll Searchers, post your Silver US Coins Here!

 

Probably the best coin ever received in change came a long time ago in the early 1970's. A little boy came into my father's bakery to buy some chocolate cupcakes. At that time, 12 cupcakes were 96 cents. He paid with an 1878 Morgan dollar. I still own that coin, 40 years later.

 

I was at an Antique storein Michigan in August 2012. I bought 2 or 3 tokens from one vendor and received 62 Washington in change...The cashier was so angry at herself!!!!!

 

I received this one in change.

 

The best one I got is a Vatican 50 Euro Cent from Benedict XVI. I got it from a vending machine!

 

nothing here, not a thing, no silver, no errors, no varieties, nothing of more than face value, not even any common date wheat cents.