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<p>[QUOTE="KLJ, post: 60290, member: 1910"]This may not qualify as a "found in circulation," but I think it comes close. </p><p><br /></p><p>My wife and I were doing a tour last weekend of Civil War battlefields in west Tennessee, and we stopped at a gas station near Fort Campbell, right before we crossed into Tennessee from Kentucky. Not only was the gas $1.97 (!!!), but the gas station had a gum-ball style machine that dispensed collectable coins. They advertised that they had examples of all the silver coins (except dollars) since the Barber designs, and had all the nickels of the same period, Indian cents, and wheat cents as well. They also had $1 silver certificates. I could see a silver certificate and a mercury dime. Only 75 cents each. I got a 1962 dime, and a 1952D cent. Circulated. Not exactly a great value, at least for what I got, but I like the idea. And I'd never seen one before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KLJ, post: 60290, member: 1910"]This may not qualify as a "found in circulation," but I think it comes close. My wife and I were doing a tour last weekend of Civil War battlefields in west Tennessee, and we stopped at a gas station near Fort Campbell, right before we crossed into Tennessee from Kentucky. Not only was the gas $1.97 (!!!), but the gas station had a gum-ball style machine that dispensed collectable coins. They advertised that they had examples of all the silver coins (except dollars) since the Barber designs, and had all the nickels of the same period, Indian cents, and wheat cents as well. They also had $1 silver certificates. I could see a silver certificate and a mercury dime. Only 75 cents each. I got a 1962 dime, and a 1952D cent. Circulated. Not exactly a great value, at least for what I got, but I like the idea. And I'd never seen one before.[/QUOTE]
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