Interesting Find From Circulation

I got 5$ worth of JFK halves from the bank(thats all they had) and found
a nice BU 2001 50c MS-63 red book= 2$.
I put it in a 2x2,i know it wont be worth much for many years but im starting to save nice BU face value coins with the idea that someday my heirs may benifit from them.
unlike a lot of the folks on cointalk, no one in my family collected or saved coins.

 

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no one in my family collected or saved coins either. my dad *might* but i'm not sure.

 

I found three Oregon P quarters in the coke fund change today, as well as a 1947 nickel.

 

Virginia State Quarter. Perfect shape.

 

2 1919 P Wheaties..........IN ONE BOX FROM BRINKS

 

Ok, I was at Sam's Club when I suddenly became hungry. I went and purchased a slice of pizza. It came to $2.03, so I gave the cashier $2.05. In change I recieved a 1920 wheat penny. It was VERY WORN. That would make it the oldest coin I've ever found in circulation.

 

so i just found out tonight that my dad and grandfather both collected coins. next time i go to my parents house, i'm gonna take a looksey.

though i did find a keelboat nickel in change today

 

i found an 1820 large cent and an 1877 seated half dollar i think it was a few months ago.

 

You found them in change???

Speedy

 

i dont remember if it was in my change or in my dad's collection i was surprised because i thought i wasn't going to get my hand's on one or two that were minted in the 1800s

 

Got a box of pennies yesterday. Yesterday evening I looked through the whole box and found 10 wheat pennies. Best percentage from a box so far. Not a single canadian either.

 

2 1968 D halves
41 P nickel
42 P (not a war) nickel
43 P war nickel

 

How many rolls did you have to search to find two war nickels? I have only found two in the last 150 rolls I have searched.

 

15 rolls for the nickels
4 rolls for the halves

One time, and I believe I posted this before, I found one roll that half war nickels

 

actually only one war nickel this time

 

That's my problem: I've been wasting my time looking through change ! From now on I'll start looking through other people's collections to get coins for my pocket change collection.

 

lol thats cool.

 

Two Keelboat Nickels

 

1 box of halves today (and another for tomorrow and so far I have found:
1957D
1964D x3
1967
1968D
1969D
2003P
2004P x2
2004D x4

Not too shabby, and a lot of fun

 

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