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Message:: [QUOTE="gboulton, post: 1025561, member: 27043"]I found this one in a roll of US Halves actually.  That's what made it so odd. This kind of thing is what I so adore about this hobby. That's a BRITISH PENNY that, 98 YEARS after being made, winds up in a roll of US Half Dollars????  Heck...the lousy condition is part of its story, if you ask me. Imagine the transactions that coin has been a part of.  How many hands has it passed through?  What sort of people?  Could it have been given to a begger to buy a drink?  Could it have been given to a child for some candy?  Could it have been left in a famous actress's change jar for years? And what transaction(s) brought it across an entire ocean?  Whose pocket did it ride in?  I mean...think about this.  It's at least POSSIBLE it got here in the pocket of a Titanic survivor. And how on EARTH did it wind up in a roll of half dollars?  Sure, it's the same diameter, but why'd it get stuck with them in the first place?  And when?  And why hasn't ANYONE noticed it before now?? Ya know...TPG slabbed high-end coins are nice to be sure, and certain coins are gorgeous in high grades without a doubt...heck, I have some, and I like them. BUT Coins like this are why I do this.  It's nearly a certainty none of us will ever know the answers to the questions above.  That doesn't make the story any less interesting though.[/QUOTE]