Interesting Find From Circulation

I found what I think is a magician's coin in a roll of Jeffersons. Two reverses glued together. I have to say they did a great job on this coin.
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nothing much just a1959 d jeff in change still cool to find

 

Roll searching Kennedy halves has been profitable - I now have 2 tubes of 1964's and many more tubes of the 40% silver.

My question is......Is this the time to sell what I have, or should I hold onto them? The 1964 rolls are are selling for about $85 on eBay....very tempting!

I apologize if this has been posted before, but I can't locate the answer.
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OK I'll bite. My opinion is this isn't the time to sell. Of course eBay writes it's own dramatic prices. Anything is possible on FeeBay.
The fact is silver dropped last week and is now just above $12 a troy ounce. It was up over $13 about a week ago.
Today for the heck of it I took a scratched 1969D Kennedy to a coin show to test the waters.
I brought two scratched 90% silver dimes too.
I know the dimes can fetch 80 cents each.
I only went to one buyer and got $2.35 for the 3 coins.
So actually the 40% Kennedy netted 75 cents when you factor in the known value of the 2 Roosevelts.
Other dealers said the Kennedy was worth about $1.50 but they would not buy it.
For me, I'm waiting.

 

I would agree, I'd keep it all if you don't need the money right away. I have tried to make a few small sales just to see where I could get the best price and eBay does come out pretty high (as compared to www.apmex.com, for example) but I recently sold some 40% using bulliondirect.com's "nucleo exchange" and was happy with both the price and turn around time.

 

Silver find

Got a 20 dollar roll (Never seen one of them.) from the bank today with 6 1964's and 17 40 percents kennedy's. This is my record hall.

 

My most recent find of this nature occurred in the early evening of September 6, 2006. I ordered a strawberry shake at a Jack In a Box restaurant in Westminster, CA, and got an EF/AU 1964D quarter as part of my change. A few months ago lunch at an eatery in Orange County's Little Saigon area yielded in my change a 2003 Australian 5 cent piece which has the size and vague appearance of a dime.

On another occasion I was at the local library and sitting down in one of the armchairs to read I happened to look down and found a 1939 wheat penny in what i judged to be F/VF condition.

I was also chatting with the manager of a Burger King who happens to collect coins and he was telling me about some of the things that came from the customers such as an 1888 and a 1904 Indian head penny, a 1935 Peace Dollar, and a 1957 silver certificate. I can just imagine somebody, not realizing what they had, using the Peace Dollar to order coffee, which would have amounted to a $20-$30 cup of coffee! And we thought Starbucks was expensive!

 

found in nickels

hya: I am new, while going through rolls I found . 5 indian heads 1930s, 34p 35p 37p and 1 with no date . 8 1939p 2 rolls of 40s, 2 rolls of 50s 1 roll of 1951 all together 4rolls of 60s , 10 1969s 8 1970 s out of 200 rolls its been alot of fun can't wate to get some more nickels

 

Interesting Circulation Finds

From the 'Interesting Change' section of my coin collection, these are two of the most worn down coins I've ever seen.

The first is a 1920s Lincoln cent (still can't tell what the last number is) and the other is a 1944P Jefferson nickel. The Lincoln actually has more than half the reverse worn completely off, although you can still see "ONE CENT" and part of "E PLURIBUS UNUM". The Jefferson is similarly worn, but most of the design is still there (on the obverse at least), including the date and the mint mark on the back. Unfortunately, the scans don't really show much detail and it's pretty hard to see anything.

 

Nothing spectacular but my most recent circulation find was a 1963-D penny in XF condition which I got in my change at a Burger King near me. Actually I have two or three other 1963-D's but they're in G to F condition. At first I thought it was a newer penny until I saw the date.

And then a search through my collection of coins that I previously found from circulation yielded a 1956 wheat penny, as well as 1946, 1951 and 1960 nickels

 

64 cents in wheaties from the coinstar return slot,the oldest was a 1930,left by an elderly lady.
2 40% JFKs from Wells Fargo

 

Mexico, 1 peso, 2003, good condition.

Interesting in that I just returned from Cancun.

Got this coin at a convenience store in Delta, Colorado.

 

I found a 1942-S war nickel and two common-date wheaties in the register at work yesterday. It's my first silver nickel!

 

Silver nickel?

 

Ok, technically it's a copper/silver/manganese nickel, but I like to look at the positive side of things.

You know about the whole wartime/composition change deal, right?

 

Yeah, I was just ribbin' ya for the sake of the purist's in the crowd. :kewl:

 

Canadian 1939 10 Cents and some 1940-1947 pennies. A couple 1950 german coins

 

Don't know if it counts or not, but I found a 1950s San Francisco (forget the exact date) wheat cent under my couch yesterday.

 

1971-S (that's right boys and girls--- a PROOF silver) Eisenhower Dollar at the local pizza shop. Girl, kind of seed looking, wanted to spend it and the guy at the register wasn't sure it was real. I solved the problem by taking it off their hands. I was also able to get 1976 Bicentennial in BU.

The condition of the proof isn't bad at all.. I think it has probably been circulating for about a week, maybe among about 5 or 6 people. No scratches, just smudges and fingerprints. If I could, I'd post a picture.

Gauging the entire situation, I suspect someone got into a relative's coin collection and spent the coins.

 

Nice find at the Pizza shop.