Found in the wild

I've found a number of good things over the years silver halves, quarters and dimes. But the fondest things that I've found have been Indian Head pennies (8), wheat pennies (over 1,000), silver nickels. I've found a number of San Francisco coins. But since I spend a lot of time roll searching pennies I have found 2 1909 S VDB's. All told I have 6 of these coins the other 4 I found over 50 years ago and in better shape that the ones I've found lately.

It's always a pleasure to find the Indian Head Pennies though only because they are so old and can still be found in circulation. Never had one returned to me in change though.

 

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i have gotten a good number of silvers over the year !! 1964 washington quarter in my change from the dump. Mercury dime in my change at the dollar store. and many more memorable finds !! I went through my nannys change jar had about the past years of coins in it( this was about 4 years back) found 5 silver quarters, 5 silver dimes, 20+ wheats, 2 war nickels and some nice 1940s non silver nickels !!

 

This is a cool thread!

I have two instances of finding in the wild- 1. Just the other day as I was finishing work and walking out to the gate where we have to scan a badge I noticed a few cents on the ground, probably from someone who was pulling out their badge and inadvertently pulled these out with it. One looked a little different and as I bent down to pick it up I immediately noticed the wheat-back! Only worth a few cents itself but it was very cool. 2- A few years back I received a 1934 $5 Silver Certificate in change from a local store. Cashier thought she was giving me a counterfeit, but I took it and pocketed it before she could get it back!

 

So far I have found (1) 1964 Silver Dime, (4) 40% Kennedy Half Dollars, and (3) silver war nickels in every day change. That was over a span of several years. Even a wheat penny puts a smile on my face when I find one.

 

I got a merc out of the pop machine a while back, one of the gals from the office was so impressed with it that I gave it to her.

 

Not technically in the wild, but whatever. Went to one of my dump banks and the teller asked why I had so many dimes. I explained to her what I was doing and she said "Oh, people sometimes bring those in as change," and promptly slid a 1964 quarter, a 1962 quarter, and a 1950-S dime through the window. Gave her a buck, got 3 silvers

 

A customer spent an 1861 British half penny at the little store I work at. I accepted it as a quarter and bought it for a quarter. How it ended up in that person's pocket is beyond me.

 

At the grocery store my girlfriend has a habit of checking those little candy machines that kids use and in the coin dispenser she found a dime and a few pennies.. the dime was a 1906 Barber dime, oldest free find of the year

 

I would love to see a picture of that British Half penny please

 

Agreed.

 

Here's a thread I started about finding coins in a convenience store. You might be surprised by some of the things I've found.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bugos-finds-of-the-day.228872/

 

That's really cool!!!!! Ty!!!!

 

Almost spent a silver dime today. I'm pretty avid about checking the coins I receive in change, but somehow I carried around a 1963-D dime and didn't realize it until I was in line for coffee and planning to spend it. It's easy to see how silver dimes remain in the wild, when even people looking for them don't notice.

 

Recent 'found in change':

The marks are from an old glass table:






and this Saturday,
I saw a 1948 D nickel, then this:
I think an AU:

 

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Treshunt: Nice silver nickel find.

A few days ago I got a 1959-D penny in change. I find almost all of my interesting coins at work.

 

Found my lovely wife that way. BTW, you young guys, just some advice, it's always, "lovely wife." Omit that adjective, you'll pay. Maybe not today, but sometime. That's just how it works, and there's nothing anybody can do about it.

 

I found this one in a box of BWR pennies:

 

By no means a big score, but I think it was an interesting encounter.

I was paying for a couple of slushies for the kids at the gas station on Sunday and I usually check out the penny dish to see if there's anything good. There was a really dark penny that I picked up to check the date, but it was only a few years old. I put it back and muttered something along the lines of "Bummer, it looked a lot older than it is."

I got my change from the cashier and walked out and of course I have to check out my change too. In the change, there were three pennies. All three of them were wheat pennies.

Did the cashier have those set aside for himself and then sneak them into my change when he noticed I was checking out the pennies? Did I get hit by a random act of kindness?