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<p>[QUOTE="Morgan1883-O, post: 156546, member: 6353"]My most recent find of this nature occurred in the early evening of September 6, 2006. I ordered a strawberry shake at a Jack In a Box restaurant in Westminster, CA, and got an EF/AU 1964D quarter as part of my change. A few months ago lunch at an eatery in Orange County's Little Saigon area yielded in my change a 2003 Australian 5 cent piece which has the size and vague appearance of a dime. </p><p> </p><p>On another occasion I was at the local library and sitting down in one of the armchairs to read I happened to look down and found a 1939 wheat penny in what i judged to be F/VF condition.</p><p> </p><p>I was also chatting with the manager of a Burger King who happens to collect coins and he was telling me about some of the things that came from the customers such as an 1888 and a 1904 Indian head penny, a 1935 Peace Dollar, and a 1957 silver certificate. I can just imagine somebody, not realizing what they had, using the Peace Dollar to order coffee, which would have amounted to a $20-$30 cup of coffee! And we thought Starbucks was expensive![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Morgan1883-O, post: 156546, member: 6353"]My most recent find of this nature occurred in the early evening of September 6, 2006. I ordered a strawberry shake at a Jack In a Box restaurant in Westminster, CA, and got an EF/AU 1964D quarter as part of my change. A few months ago lunch at an eatery in Orange County's Little Saigon area yielded in my change a 2003 Australian 5 cent piece which has the size and vague appearance of a dime. On another occasion I was at the local library and sitting down in one of the armchairs to read I happened to look down and found a 1939 wheat penny in what i judged to be F/VF condition. I was also chatting with the manager of a Burger King who happens to collect coins and he was telling me about some of the things that came from the customers such as an 1888 and a 1904 Indian head penny, a 1935 Peace Dollar, and a 1957 silver certificate. I can just imagine somebody, not realizing what they had, using the Peace Dollar to order coffee, which would have amounted to a $20-$30 cup of coffee! And we thought Starbucks was expensive![/QUOTE]
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