100+ Years and Still in Circulation ...

My best find lately has "only" been a 1917, been about 4-5 months since an IHC has turned up, but since 2010 I have found about 30 of them, from 1871 - 1907, but the best finds were early last year when I found two 1858 FE cents in rolls, one in a bank wrapped, the other in a customer wrapped roll. It really is thrilling to think of all the history those really old coins have seen before they finally found their way to my old cent retirement centre.

 

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The oldest coins I have found is an 1973 Indian and a 1974 seated liberty dime, both were in bank bags but not from the same bank.

 

They might have already been added TO, and removed FROM, someone's 'retirement' centre

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Besides WHERE they've been, think about whose pockets your coins were in. AND, what OTHER coins shared the pocket !!!

 

DANG! I'd have those slabbed!!

 

The Indian head was in very fine condition and was an upgrade to the one I had but the seated liberty was in about good condition and was worn flat.

 

Curiously enough, I did post the other day about searching $400 in dimes and $120 in nickels. At the time I also had $100 in CWR cents that took me awhile to go through because of being busy with work etc. Not to mention, but they were also really really BORING because halfway through the bunch, ie about 95 rolls in I found only 5 wheat cents dated from 1929 on up through 1958. I was finding a smattering of dimes and a couple of S mint memorials.

I was getting pretty disgusted about Thursday night, sort of at the point of just opening the rolls directly into the bag I take them back to the bank in, thinking if I don't find something more I am going to do just that, break open the rolls and empty them into the bag because they have seemingly already been searched or something. Then something shiny, rather harshly also caught my eye. An IHC! It looks like it was probably EF or so when it was lost, then corroded a bit and harshly cleaned by the finder then released back into the wild. It is my first IHC in about 3-4 months and it is dated 1900.

With the rest of the 100 or so rolls I found only another 5 wheats and 8 dimes. Rolls can be fickle sometimes, but every once in awhile you find a surprise, not a pretty one but still easily identifiable as a 115 year old coin.

Yesterday I bought a $25 box of BWR cents and only found 10 wheats, not to exciting save for one ie the really nice VF '16-D

 

That must be a very unique seated dime, 100 years after the series ended

 

I received a 1902 indian cent in VG8 condition from the deli section at "Cub" foods grocery store 2 years ago here in Minnesota. My guess is that it got there from a fellow coin collector simply spending it as a coin drop. I later gave it to my barber as a tip, small as it was. Ha, ha!

 

That wasn't nice. Ha, ha! Ok. Obvious mistake.

 

Oh, you guys are making me laugh soooo hard! Ha, ha ha!!!

 

That 83 was sitting in someones collection for a while. Nice find

 

Lol yes i realized I made a typo, 1873 and 1874

 

Props for being able to take some good-natured kidding.

 

I was born in 1948 and saw a few IH pennies in change. Bought cokes/ice cream with silver coins and got some fishing stuff with a Walker half once! It was great when they redeemed silver certificates for Morgans and Peace dollars. But they got spent/sold over the years. Sigh.Came out to the Astoria area now and have found lots of nice old silver/copper stuff in the last few years,Hooray!.....

 

In 1963-64, I went through rolls of cents, nickels, and dimes from a supermarket, found and kept the Indians, Buffaloes, and Mercurys. I recall finding all of these with some regularity (I would get 10 rolls of each, returned them for more rolls as often as I could). I'm not sure why you didn't find Indians in pocket change in 1955.