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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cdcda, post: 52598, member: 941&quot;]My favorite find of late was not even a purchase, or an acquisition, but instead was more of a discovery of sorts...</p><p><br /></p><p>As a dealer, I purchase both small and large lots of coins on a fairly regular basis. Although the coins are evaluated during the purchase process, it often takes weeks or even months to go through them all - putting them up in holders, pricing them, etc. Often, the first step of this process is to quickly separate out the more valuable coins from the, say pounds of searched through wheat cents. It is during this process that, for whatever absent minded reason, I often place coins in strange but usually memorable locations. There are those times however, that those locations somehow seem to slip my mind.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other day I pulled up to a local fast food drive through and after ordering, pulled out my cash and looked in my center console for the appropriate change. I grabbed a handful and as I picked through it for the exact amount, there was a stunning Seated Liberty half dime in XF/AU. I almost had to laugh.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had to stop for a moment to think about how it got there, but the answer was actually somewhat obvious. A few days prior I had taken change from a holder in my kitchen and dumped it in the car - always wishing to have an ample supply of quarters and other loose change on hand. The coin must have been transferred at that point.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few days prior to that time I had taken a variety of loose change from a holder in my office and placed it in the kitchen. Turns out, at one point or another, I must have picked up the half dime with loose change on my desk and dumped it into the holder without even noticing.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, now here I am with a nice half dime and a funny little story to go along with it, so it would have to be my &quot;best find&quot; of late. And, it also served as a nice little reminder to keep better track of things in my office![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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