Most exciting find you have had?

Morning all, a newbie here . I have been cruising through some of the threads and thought I would start a new one for a Sunday morning. I am under the weather so have to stay indoors and keep warm.

What is the most exciting thing you have found in coins?

Mine? Some few years ago. One of my adult daughters gave her Brother a box full of pennies. Maybe $20.00 worth. He was digging through them on the kitchen table when I came in. He had no idea what she had just given him but I did! They were all wheat pennies. That was exciting enough but I started going through them one by one and the best and for me most exciting was a 1909 VDB , wish it had also had an S.

Mike

 

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I found a 1999 WAM cent in searching bank rolls. I also found a very nice and dramatic dropped letter quarter from bank rolls.

 

Late last year I did my usual comic book store run, usually I pay the exact amount with tax & all but I didnt that week because there was a few extras I wanted to buy. So I paid with a $20 & I got change back and tossed back in my pocket, after I got home I looked through my change and low and behold it was a wisconsin state quarter, low leaf variety. I was pretty excited. It had some wear and usual scrapes from change & such. Ended up getting $43 on ebay after fees and such. So it basically paid for a ancient coin with that $.

Now how about finding a high leaf variety

 

My Avatar. I found it roll hunting in 2007. It is the 1982 Small Date Zinc Doubled Die Reverse discovery coin. To date there have only been three found.

 

While I've found quite a few exciting things, one that pops to mind as especially exciting, was this one which came from a roll purchased for $12.50 from a local coin dealer on his way to the bank back in 2009.




It's still a PCGS TopPop with only one other in PCGS's database.

 

Now THAT's an exciting coin!

 

My paper money errors. The majority of Canadian ones came from searching the till at work. I also found several blank quarter planchets.

 

I bought some bullion silver coins and in it was an old seated 1873 half dollar which made me happy because I paid melt for the lot. But the coin was so well worn down that I thougt it might be worthwhile getting it graded for a low-ball coin. So I put it under the lights and photographed it so I could show a few friends and get their opinion whether it would be a good low-ball coin. While cropping the photo I suddenly see for the first time two little "cc" on the reverse! Further investigation shows this is the much more rare 1873 "small cc" variety and even in this condition is worth a couple bills. Interestingly, this variety is only found in heavily circulated condition and my coin is certainly that. If you look closely at the reverse you can see the mint marks. And in hand it's even harder but they're there! Gotta love buying a CC coin at melt! LOL!!!

 

i found a 1941 mercury dime under a gumball machine

 

Found a 1869 3 cent coin in a garden digging

 

I know I've posted this before, but this was my best/most exciting find ever, by far.

Purchased for face from a local bank.

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A buddy of mine went to the bank and the woman knew he collected coins and so she said someone had brought some large dollar coins and wondered if he wanted it, assuming it was an Ike, he said sure. She walks away and comes back with an 8 ASE's and exchanged $8 for the 8 x $1 coins. He said he couldn't believe his good luck and of course I hate him....

 

Wow, that's awesome. I scored 3 Morgans from a teller once, and that made my week... 8 ASE's would be awesome.

 

Another great find of mine was while hunting. I was walking down a dirt road back to camp and I saw a round silver disc on the road I walked past thinking it just a seal from an oil container or something. a few paces away I decided to go back and see what exactly it was. Boy was I glad I did. It was a 1935 Standing Liberty quarter in verry good condition with a real crisp date.

 

about a year ago found an 1857 flying eagle penny in a coinstar. along with a bunch of steel pennies, silver dimes, and ike dollars. penny was cleaned and polished otherwise not in bad shape.

 

All of it...[video=youtube;vhb05-fBcPU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhb05-fBcPU&feature=related[/video]

 

Once, someone I knew gave me his childhood collection. I was looking through the coins, seeing the normal foreign coins and all, and then this:


There were also some Canadian coins from the late teens and some really nice BU coins such as this:

 

1806 O-127a
R-7
Grade: G-4
[Note: no condition census given for die state. However, O-127: 20,20,15,12,12)
Obverse: 12-s2 Reverse: H Diagnostics:
Obverse: Die Crack, Y above T at top.
Reverse: Berries do not have stems.





In case you did not notice, it is an R-7.

 

I have been lucky. About 1957, found a 1916d Mer g4, next at a Kroger store when working in 1963 found a 1932d qt. vf, SO, if you look, you will find. 1941d fsb 64 Mer in 2010 at a grocery store. At a garage sale, a full date roll of Buffalo nickles for $4.00. At a coin show I bought 3 SC 1953 star notes (two were consecutive numbers, skip one number and the next one) all UNC 63. for the price of reg notes.

 

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