What is your best find? (In coin roll hunting, pocket change, or coinstar?)

What is your best single coin find in the wild from Coin Roll Hunting, Pocket Change, or a Coin Star?

 

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tough question...

 

$11 face of silver US quarters at the local grocery store coinstar:

 

I used to CRH more often than I do now so it's been awhile since I found anything too great but here are two of my best finds.

1959 - Denver Mint
One Cent
Repunched mintmark error, D/D/D
Listed as CONECA RPM-005, Wexler WRPM-002



1976 - Denver Mint
Bicentennial Quarter
Obverse lamination error on right side, second smaller lamination error in the date section​

 

Don't know if it counts, but I found a guy getting frustrated that the CoinStar was rejecting so many of the coins from his jar. It was because they were silver. I was short of cash, so I ended up using my CC to buy him a gift card for the grocery we were in. This was right before the 2011 silver run-up.

There were a couple of silver dollars in the lot. One of them was a 1928-P. Harshly cleaned, but still.

 

Best variety find: 1972P DDO-001


Best error find. Tough call but I'm going to choose this one today:

 

I used to CRH for silver dimes and wheat cents...












I think I will start searching dimes again. It's the best feeling finding silver. I would usually get 1 silver in a box of $250.00 . My best day was 2 in a box.

 

Wow! That '72 is amazing. Down the road I want a 1972 variety in high grade.

 

1928-S SLQ back in the 1950's

 

1939 Henning Nickel (most valuable). 1914 Gold Ducat (most unexpected).

 

Probably a 14kt gold men's wedding band I found in a bag of halves in Salt Lake City (where I went to grad school.)

Called all their branches asking if they'd had someone report one missing (because that's someone's wedding ring and I'd much prefer to reunite them with it if possible) but after a month or so with no responses it was mine to keep.

 

Don't mind me, I'm just here watching.

 

Both of these are great finds, especially that doubled die!

 

How do you get this out of a coin star? Just asking because I have never put anything into one let alone got something out of one.

 

Well, technically, the coins where under the front of the machine.

How they got there? I can only guess.

 

What is the weight on that nickel?

 

Nothing valuable yet, but favorite 2 finds are an '18S Walker and a '49D Franklin in pretty nice shape.

 

@furryfrog02 It was 5.1 grams as I recall. I was pouring over the Henning dates weighing each one but elected to do the look under magnification before tossing back into the hoard. I set this one aside since it was the most washed out 1939 I've ever found; ended up getting lucky!! This is why I tell folks not to judge these by weight alone. Look for the markers on anything you think might be a Henning!

 

I was trying to find the markers on yours but am having problems seeing them. Can you point them out?

 

@furryfrog02 Sure! Here's one more photo to help. Note the dot in the field to the left of the left gate and the irregular field surface adjacent to that. This is the less familiar reverse die (the loop in the leg of the R being the more familiar marker).