So today at work I was refilling the pennies opening up a couple rolls into the cash register and this little beauty happen to be in one of the rolls so I pulled a modern penny out of my pocket and exchanged it out
Nice It's been awhile since I've found an IHC. The oldest I've found was a really crusty 1879. Any day you find an IHC is a good day.
Thank you everyone I'm still amazed that I found it. I find it utterly insane that you can still find coins that are over 100 years old still in circulation
And it is a personal record my last oldest coin i found in circulation was a 1917 wheat penny which at the time was 102 years old when I got it
Personal record is 1929 Lincoln from a “take a penny leave a penny” tray. I was 8 or 9 and I admit I did not leave a penny.
You know with the change shortage going on i think we're all gonna find some incredibly old coins in change rolls cause I've noticed that there has been an uptick in old coins I've exchanged for at work
Well keep your eyes opened as you are obviously already doing. I think that it happens more often that you think. Often times when grandma passes the change she set aside in her jewelry box tends to get rolled and deposited. I have a buddy at the bank that I offered once to purchase any odd coins that came her way. I never received any though. All I did was turn her into a coin collector!
About 35 years ago someone brought into my office for identification a very worn tetradrachm of the Indo-Greek king Hermaios c. 90–70 BC that he had received as change instead of a quarter from a coffee shop in Cincinnati. He had first taken it to our local Greek church where someone said it was old and very valuable; they suggested he ask my advice so he brought it to me. I dashed his hopes, which were to sell the coin and use the money to buy a new truck. He had imagine it to be worth $10,000. Yes, it was genuine, and yes, it was very, very worn. I told him that at best the coin might retail for $35 (remember, this was 35 years ago). He was crestfallen, but he did better than if he had been given a run-of-the-mill quarter.