Tonight i made a trip to the bookstore to grab a 65-98 washington quarter album. On my way home, i decided to stop at a McDonalds drive-thru instead of my usual place. I even had to make a U-turn to go back after passing it the first time. Glad i did because in my change, i received a silver 1941 washington quarter!! Came in handy since I don't yet have a 1941 quarter for my 32-64 set. The 40-D quarter in the picture is a coin i got today in the mail that i snagged off Ebay for about melt. I liked the fact that it was so well worn...lots of history in the coin vs an MS one.
Thanks Mike! I thought I was alone here in liking circulated coins for the "story" that they can tell. There are other threads here telling people never to touch a coin! As for me... I want to touch coins, I want to feel the weight of them in my hand, and listen to their ring, and feel the smoothness of the surface and run my nail along the reeding of the edge. Good find by the way! Tom
I agree, they can tell a story. and can have a good place in anyone’s collection. The find is the best thrill, it just should be worth more because it was a find
Exactly. There is something about holding a coin that I like. I like flipping it in the air and hearing it ring. In my wallet i carry a circulated Peace Dollar. I love to take it out, flip it into the air, use it for coin tosses, or to scratch a scratch ticket and stuff like that. Holding the coin to me is much more fulfilling that looking at it in a slab, airtite or 2x2. Of course don't get me wrong, I do have a good mix of slabbed coins, and coins that could grade MS that i do not handle. Obviously i wouldn't take a '32-S quarter or 16-D merc dime or any other coin that is MS or worth something and start handling it and tossing it around. But there is something about a nice worn coin that I like. If only those 2 quarters i posted could talk
That's kewl! I was covering the Box Office at work today for their lunch break. I always look through the quarter rolls with my loupe. (Yes, I carry my loupe at work! Mostly because my eyes have gotten so bad.) I noticed an especially shiny one. It turned out to be a 1961 in XF. Always fun to find the unexpected! Nice find BostonMike
This is actually my second silver quarter find in the last month. About 4-5 weeks ago i found an EF '56 Quarter on the side of the road next to a couple other clad coins. Looks like an ashtray dump at a stop light. There were a couple rim dings, but overall a nice coin Other finds in pocket change include a handful of wheat cents, and a '44 war nickel.
Boy! I have only found a 1943 war nickel in G condition in my 16 years of life!! I wish I would find more silver in my change! (SOB)(SOB) now im sad
i never find anything in my change worth keeping anymore. i never did. i have never gotton any wheties or pre 1960 nickels or anything like that. my friends and the people i know do, but i don't. why is it that coin collectors don't find anything good in change, and people who don't collect find oldies in their change all the time. it seems it is like this. also, very nice find boston mike! :kewl:
I don't know, just have to keep looking. My wife and I keep our loose change in a coffee can and then use it for our vacation money. Just this week I went through the can and found a 1964 dime, a 1954-P nickel and a 1954 nickel. Nothing really valuable, but still nice to find.
I went through a huge amount of quarters, dimes and nickels recently to take to the bank (years worth of change) and found 2 or 3 old silver quarters, a hand full of old dimes and nickels...they are still out there Nice find and I agree that coins are for touching and handling. I even like the look of them more once they have been handled and have dulled. If I get a coin right off the mint new, I will preserve the luster but all others are fair game for touching I got a batch of these Nova Roma Brass coins right off the mint, they looked like this...I put them away all but one and that one I carry around in my pocket almost all the time...I like the look of it NOW far more than when it was mint...dont know why I use it to flip when a coin needs flipping...I use it to hold and fiddle with in meetings, etc...
You know it's guys like you who one day are going to give this ruthlessly competitive industry a good name... I enjoy doing that, too. But you have to have the right technique. Otherwise, it's not cool. Pick up a copy of "Scarface." That'd be the old one, now. Paul Muni in the title role. Ann Dvorak. Watch how George Raft does it. That's the proper technique. That's cool...
If anything i would think the nickels would be the easiest. Silver quarters should be the hardest in my opinion because they are bigger and it's easier to notice they are "different". WHen i found my quarter, it was because i noticed that the change had a different "ring" to it when the kid at the window handed it to me. Silver dimes don't have the same ring to them as much. I mean they ring as silver, but they blend better with clad since they are lighter and their ring is slightly quieter. The war nickels look and feel like regular nickels, so unless you look at the date, you'd never really know. For nickels, aside from the 44-P war nickel, i've found tons from the 50's. I even got lucky and found a '40 nickel on a sidewalk once (looked like a recent drop). WHeat cents come around every couple months. If i really want some wheats, i just go to the bank and grab $20 in pennies and can pull 10 or so wheat cents out of those rolls. Been meaning to try some roll searching in other denominations, but unsure what to try. I think quarters would be the hardest to find silver in. Dimes might be slightly easier but i always heard you could pull nickels back to '38 easily from rolls. I think i'm gonna pick up $20 worth of something for the weekend, but unsure what denomination yet.
Got home and emptied my pockets after a long day, and found this quarter. I'm not sure if the pictures can capture it but it really is beautiful. Connecticut state quarter (D) with mirrors. The obverse is a little beat up with scratches but this reverse is awesome for a circ find....i think. Did the best I could with the pics
Well, I'm sure I can, but it most likely would be inadequate. Sort of like trying to describe a coin. But then, so as not to let a fellow coin-flipper down, I should let you know, this comes with references. Just Google SCARFACE and COIN-FLIPPING, and you'll see that. Then, I'm afraid, you're just going to have to do what the rest of us cool coin-flippers have done, and see the movie. I mean, I'd hate to think you've been doing it wrong all this time...
