Interesting Find From Circulation

An 1880 Indian Head Cent VG! Unfortunately that same day, a dateless S-mint buffalo nickel. Do you think it is worth it to use nic-a-date on branch mint dateless buffs?

 

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Did some research wrong mixed alloy is a error that is scarce but not unheard off. Also Troodon had said it looked like normal corrosion. The picture is blurred but there is abolutly no corrosion on this coin. Thirdly there is a impression on Jeffersons collar that appears to be from a dime! I think I will send this to Ken Potter for attribution (he deals with planchet errors) or maybe ANACS the worst they could do is body bag!
Anyway I also found this article on alloy mix errors. http://www.coinworld.com/newcollector/errors/planchet.asp

 

Be interested in what more expert people would have to say, either way. I don't claim to be an expert by any means, and I haven't seen any wrong alloy errors, but I have seen a lot of corroded coins, and this looks similar to one. Wouldn't mind an education in wrong alloy errors at the expense of being proven wrong, lol.

I've seen a lot of Jefferson nickels corrode and tone in various ways... sometimes will turn slightly green, sometimes will look almost as if they rusted. It all depends on the chemical envrionment they end up in and the precise alloy mixture they have (not all nickels are prefectly 75% copper, 25% nickel... slight variations in the alloy are not all that uncommon, though more than about 3 or 4% variation is fairly rare). Most nickels seem to go slightly grey and tend to be stable if kept in the average circulating envrionment.

The war nickels tend to go dark after a while... the copper/silver/manganese alloy tends to look a lot like dark pewter when they tarnish. I've actually seen some war nickels where the field has darkened more than the devices, creating an attractive pewter cameo look.

 

After about a year of checking rolls of quarters, dimes and halves for silver I decided to try a couple rolls of cents.
I guess there is such a thing as beginners luck, although not valuable it was still cool to find this full red, fairly pristine wheaty tucked in the middle of the second roll.

 

I'd never put anything in a safety deposit box because of the government restrictions on them.

I have a fireproof safe in the house. When I die my kids can just open the safe without the governemnts interference.

Ruben

 

I picked up 5 rolls of nickels and found a 1946 & 1947. Also a 1956D in MS condition!

And lastly a 1944P silver war nickel with a defective planchet. It has a crack down the obverse through Jeffersons nose. What I thought was damage to the nose is excess metal (CUD) and the planchet had other problems prior to striking as well.

 

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Thats a nice looking wheat cent, it's Amazing we can still find such nice coins that old in rolls. nice find. :thumb:

 

At work yesterday one of the tellers brought me a "funny looking" coin that she found in a roll of quarters. It turned out to be a dateless SLQ. Its not worth much, but I'd never seen one pulled from circulation, so I thought that it was pretty neat.

 

It still baffles me,how did that wheatie stay so BU for 50 yrs?

 

I got a bright red 1961-D about a week ago, looked fresh out of a roll.

 

Not really from circulation, 1877 Indian Head Cent that I found in an IHC lot. It's a little bent, covered in corrosion, heavily worn, pitted, with a big rim ding, but still an 1877.

 

lately i havent found anything

except a 1952 wheaty.

(btw, anyone care to tell me what a "red" means? thx)

 

"Red" means a copper coin that has all, or at least most, of its original luster. Copper coins generally turn brown after a while being exposed to the air and circualated. The older a copper coin is, the more premium being red gives it, as it gets harder to find them with that much luster left.

 

ohhh ok.
Well cool, because if thats the case, i have a Red 1957 that i got in a lot

thanks

 

I bought some 2 cent stamps yesterday and got a 1919 cent in my change. It is F-12 with nice color and is the oldest coin I have found in pocket change.

 

I went to the bank today to get rolls of half dollars. They didn't have halves, but they did have two rolls of Ike dollars. I got them for face value.($40.00). The dates include 1971(4), 1971-D(2), 1972(2), 1972-D(4), 1974(2), 1974-D(4), 1976 type 1(1), 1976 type 2(11), 1977(1), 1977-D(3), 1978(5), 1978-D(1). Grades range from high XF to low MS. This is the first time I have been able to get Ike dollar rolls at a bank.:smile :whistle: :whistle:

Charlie

 

This afternoon I got a 1934 A San Francisco $10 bill in change from the bank. It is in nice shape- not perfect, but still very acceptable. The teller also had a 1951 quarter, but she wouldn't part with it.

 

Got a 1943 steel cent today (in the Steel City, no less).

Also stopped at a local coin shop. Dealer had signs posted around that he had lost (he wasn't sure if it was stolen or not) a national currency note with a serial number of 00000010. Ouch.

 

how do you tell the difference between "city notes" as i call them.
ive seen stuff, but i dont know what they are refering too.

thanks