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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 89631, member: 4626"]My record for the weirdest thing I ever found would be a 50 ore coin from Sweden, dated 2001. Found this in my change at the food court in the mall in Colorado, apparently mistaken for a penny. How it got here I'll never know. I've actually found several foreign coins in my change, including ones from Mexico, Canada, Jamaica, East Carribean States, even Germany once. Oldest coin I ever found in my change is a 1929 Canadian penny, with King George V on it. Found George VI Canadian nickels and dimes too. Find a few wheat cents from time to time, once a 1937 S that I needed, in really nice condition, even had a little redness left. Most amazing thing I found is when I broke open a new nickel roll starting my shift as a cashier, and found a 1937 buffalo nickel, still in EF condition or so. About 15 years ago someone on my paper route gave me a 1990 American Eagle as if it was a dollar, not sure if he was unaware its intrinsic value was much higher than its face value or he was just being generous. I've managed do get both P & D SBA dollars from 1979, 1980, and 1999 from post office vending machines, as well as 2000 and 2001 Sacagawea dollars, about the only place I ever seem to find them (that and light rail ticket machines). Once got a $1 silver certificate in my change, about the only interesting thing I found in paper money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 89631, member: 4626"]My record for the weirdest thing I ever found would be a 50 ore coin from Sweden, dated 2001. Found this in my change at the food court in the mall in Colorado, apparently mistaken for a penny. How it got here I'll never know. I've actually found several foreign coins in my change, including ones from Mexico, Canada, Jamaica, East Carribean States, even Germany once. Oldest coin I ever found in my change is a 1929 Canadian penny, with King George V on it. Found George VI Canadian nickels and dimes too. Find a few wheat cents from time to time, once a 1937 S that I needed, in really nice condition, even had a little redness left. Most amazing thing I found is when I broke open a new nickel roll starting my shift as a cashier, and found a 1937 buffalo nickel, still in EF condition or so. About 15 years ago someone on my paper route gave me a 1990 American Eagle as if it was a dollar, not sure if he was unaware its intrinsic value was much higher than its face value or he was just being generous. I've managed do get both P & D SBA dollars from 1979, 1980, and 1999 from post office vending machines, as well as 2000 and 2001 Sacagawea dollars, about the only place I ever seem to find them (that and light rail ticket machines). Once got a $1 silver certificate in my change, about the only interesting thing I found in paper money.[/QUOTE]
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