Interesting Find From Circulation

I pulled a 1935 Buffalo and 3 Wartime nickels while searching a box. Nothing special or valuable, but I do love finding those Buffs!!!

 

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I received a 1938 Lincoln in FINE the other day at a pizza restaurant. The restaurant owner was very disinterested in coins and let me look through the rest of the coins in the cash register. I found a 1946 Jefferson in VERY GOOD, but that was it.

I was hoping someone had cashed in their coin collection at the pizza restaurant, but no such luck.

The coins are still out there, you just have to keep a sharp eye out for them!

 

This is driving me nuts. No one is saying where they found the coins. Is everyone afraid of giving up a secret. Come on and say where they were found. I go to a bank every once in a while and buy a $50 bag of pennies hoping to find something really big and seldon find anything. How about adding WHERE these coins were found. I'll go look there also, naturally, unless your in a different state.

 

I got 3 wheat’s, an Ick dollar and 2 SBA’s from the *edit*…I almost gave away my secret.



In reality, I’ve been picking through change for some 15+years and I’ve never found anything that was worth more than $5. It’s all luck.

 

The secret is that there is no secret. Its nothing more then a little luck and a whole lot of patience. Some of us go through litteraly thousands of coins before something worth keeping is found.

 

I found this on my dresser.I'll let you know if I find anything.

 

I usually add a wheat cent in a penny roll whenever I turn it in at a bank
in hopes a youngster will find it and become interested in coins.

 

This month's finds from my register:

2 Silver Washington Quarters
1 Silver Roosevelt Dime

10 rolls of circulated 1958p and 59p nickels that I got for face value

1 $10 FRN with bleeding ink on the reverse

Several 2005 and 2004 Nickels, I've collected a roll of Oceanviews so far.

a few wheats

Bicentennial half

some sackies

Last month's highlights:

1 Silver Washington Quarter
1917-d wheat


Note:

I think that I have pulled nearly all the wheats from circulation from this area. I haven't been getting many in rolls lately and only a few from people's change.

 

How can that still be profitable?

This is kind of crazy. the slabbing grading thing is a bit out of hand. Proof coins are always buaetiful coins to my eye. People are split hairs over the qualities of these proofs.

Ruben

 

Just last week i received a a 1937 buffalo nickel in Bu in my change from the supermarket.

 

Wow i havn't seen one of those (any buffalo) in circulation in over 25 yr's.
What luck

 

1969 D Kennedy Half at teh bank today

 

Ok, my roommate brought in his gigantic jar of pennies. He had never gone through them. There was a total of more than 4,750 pennies and I went through them all. It was quite possibly, the best search I've ever had:

2001 Bahamas cent
1957-D (with luster!)
1957-D
1956-D (x2)
1955-D
1955 (x2)
1955 Canadian
1954-D
1953
1948 (x2)
1946
1944
1942-S
1941
1940
And then I find these gems:
1926
1925
1919
1917
1916

And finally my best find, a 1962-D silver dime.

 

Reading all these replys to what has been found in change, I always wonder how much was actually missed by not knowing what to look for. As an example there is a book called Looking Through Lincolns. This book, now edition 2, list numerous error coins that most people are unaware of and are worth faar more than the normal coins of the same year and mint. There are numerous double dies that are not listed in the normal coin magazines, books or web sites. Using this book I've found countless error coins I would have normally just dismissed and returned to circulation. The same is true of many other coins. For another example there are many Merc Dimes that have the reverse excessivly offset from the obverse. A long time ago I used to go to a bank and buy a $50 bag of pennies and go through them. I probably missed out on a fortune in coins over the years not knowing of what to look for. My suggestion is if you find or acquire a large quantity of coins from someone and they've had it for many years, before you scan through it get a book or check out the web sites for what to look for. If it's Lincoln Cents, go to the coppercoins.com web site.

 

Got an interesting quarter at work on Wednesday. It's a 1965 (no mint mark), but it "sounds" and looks different. I'd swear it was a silver clad, but I can't prove it. Anyway, a customer saw me looking at it and asked if I collected coins. I said yes and he gave me 2 wheaties, an 1930 and a 1949-D.

 

Quarters 1965-TODAY are silver clad. Quarters 1964 and older are 90% silver.

 

Ah, no silver has been used in business strike quarters since 1964. They are copper-nickel clad with a copper core, hence my dilemma.

 

that's not right. They are clad but with no silver today. I believe in '65 they were SILVER clad. Or was that in '64?

Ruben

 

I thought the 1976 bicentennial quarter was silver clad