Oldest Roll Find?

Just curious to see what you oldest roll find is. Also, feel free to post the oldest coin you've found in general in circulation?

Let's see who gets the oldest

Here's some of mine.

Roll Finds.
Cents: 1859 Indian, 1891 Indial

Nickels: A roll half full of BU 1938 Jefferson Nickel, the other half were other old nickels from the 1940's and 1950's, no war nickels

Dimes: I forget the exact date but I think it was either a 1934 or 1935 Mercury Dime, I know I found a few late 1930's mercury dimes and some more from the 1940's

Quarters: 1965, found some silver at banks though.

Halves: 1963d

Foreign Coins: 1869 Austria-Hungary 40% Silver 10 Krusar, 1918 Canada Dime.

General Circulation finds

Cents: 1910

Nickels: 1930, banks set it aside for me a couple weeks ago. Also found a dateless Buffalo recently

Dimes: 1935, bank set it aside for my.

Quarters: 1935d, bank set it aside for me

Half dollars: 32 Walking Liberty Halves set aside by a friend who works at the supermarket, oldest two were from 1917

 

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Rolls
Cents: 1906 Indian
Nickels: 1938 Jefferson
Dimes: 1916 Mercury
Quarters: 1965
Halves: 1964
Foreign: 1956 Canadian dime
General Circulation
Cents: 1921
Nickels: 1941
Dimes: 1938(under self check out)
Quarters: 1964 vending machine
Halves: 1964
Foreign: coin under vending machine that had Arabic on it idk wat date it is

 

My oldest "roll" is when I lifted up my shirt and looked into the mirror!!

 

I only hunt cents, my oldest this year is a 1863. I did however find a real nice 1873 yesterday.

 

Oldest cent was a 1902 IHC, oldest roll was an original bank wrapped roll of 1964P B.U. (someone's collection no doubt). Some things you never forget. Oldest dime was when I first started collecting in 1966, a 1918P Mercury. Oldest nickel was a 1928P from a vending machine at work, around 1974 or so. Oldest quarter was found in a box of stamps I purchased from my neighbor hood friend when I was a kid was 1964. Got a 1963 Franklin in change in New Hampshire at an old country store in Conway in 2006. Never found a older dollar, just Ike's from the bank. Funny how these all stuck with me all these years. Oldest metal detecting find was an 1736 Dutch East Indies copper on my Dad's farm, around 1980. ( I could be wrong about the date, it's been squirreled away a very long time)

 

Trouble is, you can't sell it, barter it or even give it away! LOL>

 

I have found an 1873 cent and an 1874 dime, which are my oldest.

 

Last year I found 2 1858 FE cents, one was miserable and barely identifiable, but the other one is probably AG at best.

Cent 1858
Nickel 1888
Dime 1898
Quarter dateless Standing Liberty
Half 1942
Dollar 1897 from circulation, 1922 at a bank last year.

I search a lot of coins, sometimes hundreds of dollars a week.

 

Man! Those are some old coins!

 

I always wonder how FE and 1859 Indians stay in circulation due to their thickness. Wouldn't some sort of machine catch those at some point?

 

All cents, 1856 through 1863 and part way through the year 1864 are way thicker than later cents. They probably were in someone's collection for years and then accidentally spent. My 1859 did not have much wear either, looked to be VF or so.

 

In rolls:
cent: 1911
nickel: 1938 (plus a few dateless buffalos)
dime: 1951
quarter: 1965
half dollar: 1963

In circulation/from tellers:
cent: 1911
nickel: 1938
dime: 1918
quarter: 1958
half: 1934
dollar: 1971

 

One of the FE's came from a customer wrapped roll, the other one from a bank wrapped roll. Sometimes stuff slips through machines though, otherwise I wouldn't find dimes in cent rolls, prexibux in bank wrapped halves etc. Until I found the one in the BWR I also thought it impossible. But they do have the same diameter - but as you note different thickness and weight.

 

Agree, How else would I find think lightweight play money in machine wrapped dime rolls, or thick heavy British fivepences. I once found a penny in a dime roll.

The 1859 Indian was in a machine rolled roll

 

I have also found a few of those little round plastic counters that bank tellers use in their coin trays. Probably found half a dozen or so plastic play money cents in BWR.

 

I have found a 1903 Indian but it's pretty beat up. Still a 1903 Indian!

 

"The 1859 Indian was in a machine rolled roll"

So you found a FATTY INDIAN in an MWR? Post pics plz!

 

My oldest in bank rolls was an 1865 IHC that needed xylene treatment and heavy brushing just to see the date. The story behind the find is kind of interesting. I had stopped at the bank that had been supplying me just as they were pulling down the shades in the drive-up window. I was so disappointed because I wanted $10-worth of cents for when I got home. Driving home, I passed by another bank with cars in the lanes and their shades still up. This was an entirely different bank, and I didn't have an account in it. I figured they were staying open longer because they had the customers still in line, so I got right in behind the last car. When I got to the window, I just put the bag in the drawer, and said, "$10 in cents, please." They were in such a hurry to get out of there, the teller didn't ask any questions. If my bank hadn't had its shades down, I'd have never got that IHC. It just blew my mind when I saw it.

 

Found a 1942 Lincoln in a roll. Well, it's something, plus a free wheat cent. I'm only a beginner, as i opened less than 25 penny rolls before. I'll get there, eventually.

 

Oldest "found" so far are a 1736 half reale in a jewelers' and a 1737 8 Reale Pillar Dollar a jeweler friend saved for me(he buys a lot of scrap gold/silver "goodies".