Pocket Change Finds; Post Your Results

Not a new idea but. I just enjoy checking out new finds. As long as the thread Isn’t trampled on buy what’s it worth entering

 

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This thread went way off base. Thought it was about pocket change

 

It has mostly stayed on track. Some folks will make a mistake but they eventually find the other dedicated threads (coinstar, coin roll hunting). Many weren’t aware of the thread a posted separate pocket change finds. When I see this, I hook in a link. But I would hazard a guess that 90+% are correctly established here.

 

Nothing too special but a couple of ~50 year old coins in better condition.

 

" I just paid today, got me a pocket full of change", ZZTop.

 

Sal - come Back to the Future (III if memory serves). I’ve gotten Buffalo nickels in change, twice at McDonald’s and a few times using the change machine near the vending machines. But never an IHC. However, the first IHC I found happened one morning getting ready for church. I saw a round object on the ground behind my folks place. 1905 IHC.

 

Saw them about 10 times. With Alice Cooper and Emerson Lake and Palmer and others

 

Damn. You got IHC laying around. I finally got to see the date on my only one. Thanks to @Kentucky and you. Kentucky’s tooth brush idea got the date to show. But the olive oil cleaned up the rest. Is a 1862 all day

 

Here's a fun find from pocket change - Pocket change | Coin Talk

Congrats to @KBBPLL !

 

I meant to get to this sooner, but for May, @meandyou4ever0 gets my vote. It’s a decent find for a 15 yo coin. I’m imagining that someone cashed in a roll or two of extras on hand and got back into circulation. I seemed to notice a bit of an uptick of older uncirculated coins, especially State quarters.

 

I work as a cashier, do cash register finds count? (Doesn't exactly seem like roll hunting per se). If so, some recent highlights over the last month or so:

1776-1976-S clad proof quarter
1973-S proof nickel
1959 Jefferson nickel
1949-D Jefferson nickel
1983 Panama 1/10 Balboa
2003 Australia 10 cents (customer paid with this, thinking it was a quarter)
1942 Canada George VI cent
Several wheat pennies, bicentennial quarters, and Canadian cents

 

Oh definitely a pocket change find, recently as change from a vending machine got 2 2024-D Alabama innovation quarters; not only are these not supposed to be circulating but they're very recently released, so definitely a cool find.

 

Well thank you @Kevin Mader
It is a very nice coin isn't it....especially from circulation.

 

My thought is that it would have been change without your intervention and since there isn’t a Cash Drawer finds thread, fair game here. I’ll have to admit that I loved tallying the cash drawers as a youngster in a restaurant. I snagged many fine coins and bills in the ‘80’s.

 

2 more cash register finds today:
1948-D Jefferson nickel (too bad not a 1948-S, but I'll take it!)
2009-D "Formative Years" Lincoln cent

 

I suspect you see plenty of D and S Jefferson Nickels. Here on the East Coast D and S mint coins are few…relatively speaking (Philly is nearby so we are inundated). That said, nickels tend to yield the most D and S mint specimens against all other denominations.

 

Anything relatively new in circulation is much more likely to come from Denver than Philadelphia, yes; for older stuff if it's still around it can come from anywhere.

San Francisco stayed in the nickel game until 1970 (as far as business strike nickels go) which is just about later than they made anything else (besides SBA dollars). Not too long ago did find a really nice 1968-S I initially suspected of being proof but decided it was just a really nice condition business strike, comparing it to other business strikes. (Even with a little circulation a proof has pretty distinctive features vs. a business strike.) My father's in the VFW and let me look through the money people donated last Memorial Day; found a 1970-S which isn't the biggest deal I suppose, but was cool to find the last nickel San Francisco ever made for circulation. (Also found a 2020 Portugal 1 euro cent in the collection.)

I actually did recently get a 1979-S SBA dollar in vending machine change, better condition than the one I already had, so that's nice. Just 1 year earlier than the last thing SF ever made for circulation, the 1980-S SBA.

 

Oddly enough, it seemed like SBAs were the coins most likely to show up on the East Coast with an S mint mark. As a kid, I'd look at hundreds or thousands of nickels and dimes before finding an S mint (and that was when nickels and cents were still struck there for circulation). As a young adult, I encountered maybe a hundred or so SBAs in circulation, and several of them were S-mint.

 

Sounds like your experience with Philly finds is like my East Coast D and S finds. Little thrills to pick from one’s change (at least for me). The 1974 S LMC a couple weeks ago is a prime example. Common enough but in that condition, less so.

No matter…I work the change to see what turns up. Some of my posts are more interesting and some less so. I noticed last night my little change pot is ready for review and rolling. I hope to find a DDR or two or maybe a nicer clash. We will have to see.

 

I have a similar experience with impaired proofs (mostly State quarters). Not as many as circulation S mint nickels and cents, but curious when a vendor hands you one in change. A small thrill.