"Where are the rest of you?" would be a good follow-up question. The idea of stories that a coin could tell isn't unusual... I use it all the time when I talk to scouts about coin collecting. I pull out a seated half dated 1865 and see how many of them remember what was going on at the time. But if you really want to hear some stories, talk to some of the coins from the Ancients forum, right?
This thread is awesome...its exactly what keeps me collecting. I'd ask this coin if he was carried in the pocket of a US soldier on D day...the worn look of this coin is what I love when I find them in change...its been through a lot.
Most of the S-276 cents were struck with rotated dies. Rotations can be found all the way around the clock. Most commonly seen are rotated roughly 180 degrees.
I'd be interested to hear from one of the coins in the Saddle Ridge hoard. Find out who it was that buried those coins there, when they were buried, and where they came from. Were they earned legally? Stolen? Part of a big robbery?
