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I don't collect coins at the time but I did find a silver nickel...

We were at a craft store during a festival and we got a small bag of candy to eat on the way. We got some change and I randomly started looking through the dates (keep in mind this is before I started investing in precious metals) and I found an old nickel and googled the date and found out it was a old silver war nickel. I sold it on ebay

 

No soup for you........you sold it.

 

Oh am I supposed to post this on the other forum? Oops...

 

moved post

 

In the early 80'swhen I was in High School, I used to search the low value pick boxes at shows for Older German states and other European minors before 1850. This was at a time when it was difficult to find info and the only decent reference book was Craig's Coins of the world 1750-1850.

For 50 cents, I bought a worn copper with Britannia on the rev. I originally thought it was an old English half penny, but Britannia was facing the wrong way. It sat in my "ID later" box for years. I ruled it out being a Connecticut Copper. Eventually by 2007 or 2008, I was suspecting it might be a Canadian Blacksmith Token. I was living in the Boston area at the time, and took it to a Boston Numismatic Society meeting. A friend from the club mentioned that dealer/researcher Bob Vlack was familiar with the subject and he would introduce me to him at an upcoming show. Sure enough Bob was able to ID it as a rare blacksmith issue, and pointed out another dealer who might be interested in it for his collection. I ended up trading it for a nice Mass Cent for my Colonial Type set.

Not bad for a 50 cent junk box find. I learned a tremendous amount over years trying to ID that sucker. I feel a little sad about trading it, especially since I have a small collection of Pre-confederation Canadian (Charlton) tokens, but blacksmith tokens were a type of evasion coinage and it didn't have a lot of detail showing. Plus, I really like the Mass Copper (my friend from the BNS specialized in these and I always liked seeing coins from his collection)

 

Being new to roll coin hunting, on my 4th box of pennies I found a 1972 DDO-002! I could not believe I found one. I know some members have been looking a very long time for one. Condition is about MS60.

 

Contest entry.

I may have shared this story before on CT: in about 1960, when 10 or 11, I used to check the cash register in my parents’ small town cafe several times daily to fill holes in my blue Whitman folders.

I found a 1922 no D, but no hole for it. Showed it to my dad who shrugged his shoulders and tossed it into his upper right desk drawer.

Several years later I realized what I had earlier found and asked him if I could go through his drawer. It was still there.

When I needed money for college I sold him nearly all my coins. When he died at nearly 92 four years ago, I needed to liquidate the estate for three siblings. To avoid any appearance of dishonesty I sold it all to LCS.

I REALLY wish I would have kept that coin, a strong EF reverse but with a bit of corrosion on the obverse. But I have great memories of the discovery.

Thanks, @lordmarcovan for the opportunity to share the story, let alone participate in the contest.

Steve

 

My most favorite find I have is a 1962 D silver Washington Quarter. Here is the story, I had an old metal detector it did not work very well. And then I got a garret Ace 200, and within 5 minutes I found a 1962 D Washington Quarter.

 

Your so generous. You handsome dirt digger

 

It was not really my find, but my wife found it and she knew I collected coins. (funny how wives seemed to find out everything about you). It was at a garage sale and some older woman was trying to pay for at item that was about $1.00. She had Indian head nickels and the seller thought they were fake. (yes we are talking about a purchase of a piece of junk for $1.00--I would have given the lady a dollar just to rid of it. But I digress. My wife paid for the item and the buyer gave my wife the nickels.

 

When getting food for the week, about 7 or 8 years ago, the young cashier ask if I would mind taking a half dollar as part of the change. Thinking it could be a 40% half, I told her sure. Image my surprise when she hands me a Walker. I ask if she had any more halves and she said she had a lot, as an elderly man had paid part of his purchase with half dollars and she couldn't get rid of them, probably thinking they were clad. I ended up with the following at face value:

Walker - 7
Franklin - 9
Kennedy 90% - 10
Kennedy 40% - 8
Counterstamped Stone Mountain Half Dollar (sold this year for $1800+)

 

I didn't even know what it was, I thought someone had ruined it by stamping the letters and number on the coin. It sit in my junk silver pile for 2 years or more, until someone on this forum, told me what it really was and I couldn't believe what they were selling for when I checked on an auction site.

 

My best "treasure" so far to date is my 1972 DDO 001 cent. I didn't know much about coins at the time and had only been doing it for a few months to help with dealing with stress from work. I've found lots of cool things during my time CRH but this is my absolute favorite Sorry for the crap pictures. Someday I will break him out of his 2x2 flip and take better pictures