I got it in the little box at my coin shop all the coins there are common maybe he drooped it in there by accident and i got it
On my vacation to Denver I got a Flying Eagle cent (I dont know the grade, but it's around VG 8) for 40 cents.
It wasn't a really old guy, run down coin shop, etc - it was actually a professional looking coin shop with multiple employees. It was in a 40 cents bin next to a whole bunch of ugly IHCs and other coins, so it's possible it might of got in there by mistake.