I hope it’s ok to post some pocket change

Found these CRH.

1952D Wheat

1926 Wheat

1940 Nickel (Nickle)

It’s fun finding coins like that 1952, glad I can get it out of circulation. The pics don’t do it justice.

I hope people post what they like, I know I do.

 

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Thats a beautiful 1952, always curious how long these coins have been in active circulation, maybe they had been held on to for decades before being spent by accident, or given to a bank by family not knowing any better.

 

I believe that 52-D came out of somebody's cent collection and was reintroduced to the wild.

 

Almost certainly, although it is possible it was from an original bank roll that somebody found stashed somewhere or even an old "penny jar" that Grandma had kept for years. I worked in a bank as a teenager. One day in the late 1960s someone came in and deposited a few thousand dollars in silver. Seems their grandfather had been burned by the bank failures in the Depression and never trusted them. He put all his savings in silver, mostly halves, in a trunk under his bed. When he died his heirs deposited it all, consisting mostly of Barbers and Walkers.

 

And they made a lot of collectors happy in the days that followed. It's the Circle of Numismatic Life...

 

I was behind someone in Food Lion the other month paying for groceries in their fathers coin collection. His body wasnt even cold and his kids had already sold all the silver for melt value at a local pawn shop and were using whatever wasnt silver to buy misc. stuff, but thats par for the course in the poor areas of the south I guess.

 

Always fun to see other folks finds. There is a thread for posting Pocket Finds in the Coin Roll Hunting forum, but we try to keep that for Authentic pocket finds from change, change jars, desks, etc. There are other threads for pure CRH events, Coinstar Finds, and Paddyman has a thread for FOG...Found on Ground finds. So, browse the forums, use the search tool, and find an appropriate thread for whatever you would like to share here with the Community. We are always eager to see discoveries, wherever they may originate!