Interesting Find From Circulation

You're rich Kyra - you found a whole 50 centavos.

 

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OK! Thanks- so what's that worth in US dollars nowadays?

Rachel

 

is not even worth finding! lol hehe might be too depressing lol

 

Well, let's see -

According to XE.COM, 1 Mexican Peso is worth 8.96¢ in U.S. money. Does that mean your coin's face value is U.S. 4.48¢?

Unh, unh. Mexico devalued the Peso in the early '90s by knocking off the last three zeros. I'm afraid all you have is 4-1/2 thousandths of one cent.

 

ROFL! So that's even more pointless than picking up "pennies" off the sidewalk! Oh well, it looks neat, and it now has a home in my "junk foreign coin" box.

Rachel

 

Picking up cents isn't pointless. I've got a 5 gallon water jug half full of "pennies" - and only "pennies" - that I've mostly picked up off the ground. I figure at the very least, it's several hundred dollars.

Anybody feel like counting it (knowing full well I've already culled the wheat cents, etc.)?

 

1943-P Silver war nickel...I have only found 2 pieces of silver in change so far...this one at the dollar store...it "pays" to go there.

Speedy

 

I rolled a bunch of loose mixed pocket change Canadian and US dimes while in Labrador last summer, put them aside and didn't think about them again until last week when I pulled them out for change at our weekly Bingo game here at our little RV park in the middle of the Arizona desert. While there was a little grumbling about the Canadian coins (mostly from my Canadian friends), it was all in good fun... until someone came up with a "dime" they couldn't identify. I bought it back, took a close look: it was a Panama "un decimo de Balboa" coin the same size as a dime. I went back in my mind and figured I picked it up in pocket change in Labrador or, possibly Quebec. A quick search of Panama coins on eBay gave me a little info on it: it apparently also is known as "10 centissimos", doesn't appear to have any significant numismatic value except as a curiosity.The most interesting thing about it is the routing it must have taken to get to Labrador. It appears to be dated 1982, but it has dirt on it. Guess I'll have to take some steel wool to it to more clearly bring out the date.

 

My little sister recieved a 1945 Washington in change this week. She's knows I'm a collector and has been pulling wheaties and such for me. Funny thing is she thought the guy was trying to give her a "fake" coin at first because it "sounded funny" when it jingled with the rest of the change

As a footnote I recieved a 1988 $1 bill in change this week. I don't really collect bills, but with an average life span of 18 months, finding a 17 year old bill, in pretty good shape is kinda neat.

*edited to correct my math...its 2005 now

 

Got nic-a-date?

 

Yesterday I was minding the office at work (officially, I don't rank high enough to be left alone), and got a chance to go through the petty cash box. Found a 1941 nickel and 1994 Bahamian (sic?) nickel. Replaced them with a 1997D dime.

The box also had a 2000D Sacagawea. Since the cash box is filled with money that comes in from customers (and not by withdrawals from the bank), somebody spent a Sackie. I left it there, hoping it will go back into circulation.

 

I had a friend who was down on his luck for a while, and would go to the auto wreckers to get spare change that had fallen between the seats (You would be surprised how much he would pull out). He always gave me all the forgein coins most of them not worth much, but I did get a 1929 British Florin.

 

1994d Jfk, Au.

 

I recently got a silver war nickel a 1940 nickel and 5 wheates from a friend who went thru her change jar at home. to top it off in my change from the vending truck I got a 1964 quarter in XF+ I knew it was silver just from the sound of it.

 

i have just recently found a 1916 and a 1918 Wheat Penny, and i also found a 1983 2 PFENIG from Germany in a penny roll. These were found in New York

 

1940 Jefferson nickel in change from Safeway (supermarket here in phx area)

 

I found two more Sackies in the cash box on Monday (one from each mint). So I've found three in circulation in the last week! This is even more impressive because little of our income is by cash. Most of our business is corporate account credit (i.e. electronic between businesses) or by plastic.

 

1983 D washington Quarter, and 1941 Lincoln cent...both F to VF range

 

I worked at a Jiffy Lube for a year and we had a big internal vacuum system for cleaning cars, and I always tried to empty the 55 gallon drum at the end of the day because there was always $5-$10 that had been vacuumed out of cards during the day if you were willing to sift through the dirt in the bottom of the can. lol

It was dirty, but after changing oil for 8 hours I guess I couldn't get too much dirtier than I already was I never found anything with numismatic value, but it was lunch money for the next day. The coins were regularly corroded as water and dirt and coins under the floormats means ugly coins.

As for the OP last weekend I picked up 8 rolls of halves from the bank and I found a 52d, a 64p, a 68d, and a 69d. It was fun.

 

As I used to mention on the CW Forum, my wife is treasurer of our PTA, which means I get to search through all fund raising proceeds before she gets to the bank. Usually I get some wheat cents or star notes for my collection. Yesterday, included in the haul was 9 dollar coins - 2 bicentennial Ikes, 6 '00 Sacageweas and a '79 SBA. I kept the Ikes and let the others go to the bank. The "gold dollars" were absolutley tarnished, almost gray. These are not attractive coins after they've been circulated.

Bill