Canadian Quarter today from 7-11. First time in a while I got any North of the Border coinage.

Todays CoinStar finds 1984 Canadian Quarter and 1996 GB 5 Pence.

1999 D U.S. Half Dollar. Somewhere in the "EF" category.

Yes folks, they still circulate a bit. This was change from buying a pack of gum at a gas station at 5:15 am so I wouldn't have the dreaded Coffee Breath after the long drive to Sacramento.

On second look, maybe it's AU with bagmarks all to hell and back. Lots of scratches and nicks, but very little actual wear, detectable wear on the eagle's head and where the shield meets the neck, full detail on JFK's hair and cheekbone. No rim dings either.

Hello, pocket piece.

I got a 1954 dime today at lunch.

My daughter brought me a 1935S wheatie from work.

Dateless Buffalo Type II
1929 wheat back in Vg
1972 Ike
1953-D Red Unc wheatback (I find the uncs a lot from the 50's, must escape pretty frequently)

All recently from your cash drawers?! wow.

Yep, every once in a while we get a nice flow coming in. About a year ago I found nearly $8.00 face in silver quarters mixed in about 18 rolls of quarters and 6 registers. Someone must've given a roll or two to the bank. Best thing I found still is that civil war token a few months ago though, here are some pics from my old post! I still am waiting to find a liberty head (V) nickel, or a indian head.

I retired this 66 year old Jefferson today.

Not too shabby!

Early date Jeff's wear gracefully, in my opinion.

I guess I am late on this one, but I got my first SD SQ in change today. Not a bad looking design at all.

From my daughter again, a 1963 Quarter in her change.

After the Standing Liberty she will struggle to have a better find

True, But it nice having an extra set of eyes out there.

'64 roosie from a coinstar reject bin.

Hold it up to the screen.

Done. It might take a few secs to refresh

I have been checking the coinstar reject trays for a long time, I have found silver too. Only problem now is my money hungry 12 yr daughter races me to the coinstar, and she wins the finds.

I have Aaron trained to hit the CoinStar and bring the "meme" to Papa.

Just got back from the bank. Found a 2002D Sackie in a roll.

All-time:

1964 quarter at high school cafeteria
1957 dime (reached into the cashier's till to get it )
1964 dime in earnings for choir fundraiser
192? (don't have it on me now) wheatie from Wal-Mart self-checkout machine
Various early 40's (no silver ) nickels

After a summer at White Castle and 4 months at a skating rink, no more silver finds.

What do you have to do to get a job at a bank?

Ahhh White Castle - cheap, thin and greasy - by the bag. Didn't think they were still around.

Here is a good discussion for everyone:

You see a coin or note that someone donated towards a charity or for a fundraiser. You don't have any change or cash on you to replace it with. You really really wanna have it. What do your morals tell you to do?

Leave it be.

You know how you see the Leave a Penny - Take a Penny dishes in many stores now, I have on a couple of occasions spied wheat cents in them. I put a cent or nickel in and adopt the little orphan. I just hate seeing a wheat cent in for instance the Tim Hortons donation box and not being able to adopt it.

That depends...

1) If I have anything a dollar or less on me (but equal to or greater than the face value of the coin)
2) Can I reach the little bugger?
3) Newer wheaties I wouldn't give much thought about if it is in anything more than a "take-a-penny-leave-a-penny" dish, but if I see anything silver, I might spend half an hour contemplating.

I wonder if you can request the keys from the manager if you offer a big enough donation for sorting through a box's contents...

Latest coinstar finds... all in one reject bin.



Also included 2 clad dimes and 4 zinc lincs.

Nice catch on all of those, andy! Especially the zincolns!

1953S Nickel in my change.

Oops, forgot to add that a friend of mine found an 1860's (I think) cent in the parking lot at the grocery store.

Since I live in Switzerland, I can't boast of finding Buffalo nickels or IHC in my change ... but any minor denominations minted before 1968 in silver are pretty neat. I picked this one up in my change about four days ago:
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Do you ever find any of the older rappen coins in circulation, I thought it was possible to find 19th century stuff in change?

I've heard that it still happens from time to time ... but I never found anything that old yet. The oldest I have found up to now was 10 rappen 1908, followed by 20 rappen 1919 and 1920. The funny thing was that two of those coins were given in change at the same store (at different times, though)!

All of these coins were in similar condition to the 1929 piece shown (F to good VF). The nicest silver I ever found in my change was 50 rappen of 1967 in AU/UNC, pictures of which I have posted here somewhere before ... I also believe you have seen that one, since I remember that you replied to that message.

Maybe someone seeded the cash register with these coins to get more customers?? This is highly doubtful, though, since being located in an underground thoroughfare at one of the larger train stations here, they probably have all the customers they need! But obviously, at least I, for one, am a repeat customer!

Cheers!

One thing about Switzerland is that you will never get old banknotes, since they were demonetised.

1941 1c VF+

Nothing BIG. But I did find:
Jefferson
1970s
1941p,
Lincoln wheatie
1953 D
1945 P
1919 P
Eisenhower dollar
Bicentennial 1776-1976p

I hit a gold mine today... well, a copper mine

'55 D (Not the Poor Man's 55 DDO)
'39
'42
'53
'46
I also got a George VI '44 Cent

All in either F or worse condition.

I got a 1956-D cent yesterday.

I suppose my gold-plated quarter counts...

1981 A $1 FRN

Oldest note I've ever found besting the 85 $20 I found a few weeks ago, which bested the 93 $1 which I found many many many years ago.

I got the 1955 Poor mans DDO that Andy was looking for.

Pic???

I will try with my digital camera but its gonna be tough. Only the last 5 shows doubleing.
I need to get one of those computer microscopes.

If you have a loop just shoot the pic through the loop:

http://www.biggandyy.com/2006/09/21/digita...aphy-loupe-tip/

Went to your site - need help like that. By the way, how do you know its a "2001" penny? Why not 2000 or 2002-2006? Just a dumb question.

It is only a partially filled die, so when you rotate the coin the "1" becomes apparent at different angles.

I'll give it a try but for anyone thats interested heres a borrowed pic that looks very much like the coin I got in change last week.


And here's mine....

Not too exciting, but going through my wife's change, found a 1960 Canadian 5¢ a 1969-S nickel.

Got a 1993 Canadian cent after buying a Gatorade..

Received this 55 in change last week. It's in pretty decent shape.