Let's See Your Cherry Picks....

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Does cherry picking only incompass varieties? If not, I was at my LCS when I saw the junk bins. I've had a very good track record with junk bins, (See my post in the thread post your finds under $50), But this was the junk of the junk for only ten cents apiece . I run my hand through the whole barrel, because I have almost memorized the weight of colonial/early US coinage, and I feel something. I pull it up and it's a dateless draped bust Large Cent, even though a guy I was bragging about it to said when he held it he could see a two. Thinking I found a gold mine, about 5 other people started to sift their hands through the massive barrels. I was the only one to find something after that. I feel a thin copper coin and immediately knew it was colonial. But just what was it since almost every planchet was unique? I pull it out and it's a corroded Connecticut 1787 Mailed Bust Left

 

I bought this one many years ago for almost nothing. The dealer called it damaged. I knew it was some kind of clash. It's a clash with the die from an 1857 $20 gold piece.

 

This one wasn't so much a cherry pick as it was a find. a 2001 P Kennedy Half that has a die crack running through the stars on the reverse. This caused the coin to be spoon shaped. "convex" This date Kennedy was never released the year minted but instead sold later in $50 mint bags of both the P & D mint marks.

 

How about an 1819/8 Bust Half ..... RPD...you'll also notice that the 8 was inverted to try and cover the mistake.

 

Lots of good stuff in here!