One 1972 Ike and one 1974 Ike waiting for me at the Bank this morning, saved for me:) Unfortunately they did not last long as the 2.5 yr old snatched them from me and took off. Now she won't give them back.

I like the new designs for the '08 Loonies too, very nice.

I had the chance to raid the coinstar "junk/trash" bin yesterday. I pulled out a silver earing, a sharks tooth, 2 1 francs made into pendants, 7 silver rosies, and a 39 merc in Vf. I was a happy little camper!

Oh, and I forget if I mentioned this, but I found a 1939 10 cent from the Netherlands on the floor in my store. I cannot even imagine how it got there, or who had it with them to drop in the first place. But I was really happy to find it! Blows my mind sometimes lol.

To think what happened in the Netherlands the year or two after that 10 center was minted... Could that coin have been held in Nazi hands? Or maybe used by the resistance to bribe someone.

Got a star note the other day, along with a 1977A $1, along with a 1940 S nickel! All at different times. The neat part of it all was it was on Friday the 13th.

Phoenix

Not sure how much bribing would be going on with a silver coin as small as a 3-cent silver! I still have a bunch of Dutch 10-cent coins from a trip back in 1996, and they have got to be the smallest, most annoying coins ever minted by man!

Haha, yeah, they really are awesome like that.

I have a few of those little nibblers lying around somewhere, but I think I got some Ukrainian 1 Kopiyok coins in change that were smaller and more worthless.

Stopped at the McDonald's drive through this morning for breakfast and got a 1909 wheatie in change!!!

WOW

I wonder if McD's is giving out coins as prizes with each purchase. And like their Monopoly game, you have to collect them all to get some good prize... Hey.. don't dis my idea, it's early in the morning (11:42 am)

I got a couple of the mid 90's design $5 bills recently. Both very faded... Found a 1964 penny on the ground yesterday. And at the bank yesterday, I got 4 1985 $20 bills. 2 of them were in great condition and were even from the same bank and started with the same first 3 serial #'s...I just thought it was weird getting 4 of these old 20's at the same time...I hadn't seen one in the wild in quite some time.

Retired this one in its 61st year of service...

I guess it cannot be a circulation find, but maybe a what was it doing and why was it there find... Yesterday while going through a WPM catalog looking up Hungarian banknotes, I found a series 1963-A Barr note, which I must have gotten out of circulation years ago and used as a bookmark and forgot about it.

That's been in circulation almost 3 times as long as I've been alive

Oh the wonderful irony...

Got a Bicentennial Quarter and a 1944-D Nick in the same handful of change today. I noticed the nick right away (old ones are so easily spotted) and then a few minutes later I noticed the quarter.

Why irony? Look at my above post... This nickel is perfectly 3 times my age! 63 years old! So cool!

It is also silver, and worth about 75¢ or so.

I have NEVER found a silver nickel. Nickels from '39 and '41, yes, two silver dimes and two silver quarters, yes, but no silver nickels.

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Going through my change jar this morning found this beauty from circulation.


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How did you miss it before? Awesome find, though!

Must not have been paying attention that day.

while joggin the German/Dutch border trail here, near myhouse, I found a 1977 Deutsch 10 Pfennig. Once I wiped the dirt it wasn't half bad. I think it got kicked out by some farmers or something.

Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
Capt-AWACS, Europe-we have no easy button

Great find on the IHC, unfortunately my 1909 was a Lincoln!

1877?

No 1977. Germany used them until the EUro came along.

Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
Capt-AWACS, Who needs a hug

Ahh... good point! sorry for the correction

1944 and 1958-D wheaties laying on the sidewalk!

One no date buffalo nickel in change.

1999 $20 star note. But it will go back in to circulation. Its in pretty bad shape.

1968-D Kennedy Half at the bank.

That's cool, Syzygy

Panama still pegs to the dollar, so they are the same size. A friend of mine went to Panama 3 or 4 years ago and brought me back some half balboas and they are identical in size and composition to a Kennedy half (in fact they were produced by the US Mint until the early 1980s I believe).

Whats the conversion rate?
Lol, look out vending machines!

The conversion rate is 1-1 since one balboa has been pegged to $1 since at least the 1930s (in the early 20th century, a Balboa was almost $2). I have come across 1/4 balboas too, and actually thought about spending them in the pop machine at work! I believe they still have 1/10th, 1/4 and 1/2 Balboas that are the same as our coins, not sure about the nickel though. I think they are now using a small coin for 1 balboa, though it used to be identical in every respect to the silver dollar, 26.73 grams 0.900 fine silver!

The 5c's copper nickel. However, some newer 1-balboas are different. (I think something in the FS forum I have a post with a pic of one which is Ike sized, but not clad)

D'oh!
Thanks for the info

In the past I have gotten Panamanian coinage in change, somewhere I have a 1973 1/10th balboa that I received in change in a grocery store in Texas some years ago. I have also received some of the earlier Phillipines coinage, ie the centavos from the 1960's in change in the past.

My first Washington and second 07 SQ.

that's one angry looking fish.. seriously, look at those eyes.

A 1944 S wheat cent au

20 rolls of pennies:

The usual lincolns and early QEII's, plus:

1926D wheat
1944 wheat
1947ML Geo VI
1951 GEO VI
1963 QEII AU/BU? Beautiful coin!

Not too bad for such a small batch, I'd say.

Oh, yeah. My favorite teller saved 2 rolls of US quarters and gave them to me for $20 CDN. I got there just as she was getting ready to call me. I wished her a happy Mother's Day on my way out. She's looking out for me!

a 43-P silver war nickel and a 2000 2 cent spanich euro coin.

1919 wheatie in Fine i'd say.


Now, here's a conundrum I've come across before: you're collecting coins or note for a fundraiser or a charity. You see an old coin or error note in the bin. If you have that denomination in your own pocket, I think it's fine that you switch it out. BUT if you don't, and you reaaaaaallllly want that coin/note, do you leave it or not?


Or here's what I did tonight. I donated $30+ in change and bills, probably one of the bigger donations of all the ones in the dorm. I came across this 1919 cent and pocketed it. I justified it because I had already donated a ton. BUT since I donated that money with the intent of every cent going to the cause, should I feel bad for pocketing one of those cents?

If that's confusing, i'm sorry. I don't know.

Never had quite that happen, but a couple of times I have bought wheats out of penny trays in stores or restaurants. I justify it as adopting a senior citizen and retiring them.

I feel the same way: It's one cent more that would have gone to a good cause.

But that doesn't keep me from seriously considering asking for the keys to the locked donation box.

Received two of the DUTCH 2 Euro 2007 Europa 50 *specials* in change last night in Maastricht (or very early this morning depending on your point of view). These were my second special 07s after the German one a few weeks ago.

Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
Capt-AWACS, Who needs a hug kids

The daughter of my girlfriend received a german 2006 Schleswig Holstein 2 euro commem in change today




(borrowed pic from Tiffibunny)

Got a 1944 US wheatie in my change from the cinnamon bun place this afternoon. I swear, I find more wheat cents in general circulation in Canada (been here less than 5 years) than I ever found in the US. (Been there, um, a lot longer.)

Today I was at the bank getting into my safe deposit box and there is a coin counting machine in the same room with the boxes in the vault, and sitting by the book where I sign in to the box, there was a coin. At first I thought it was a dime, but I looked closer and it was a 1943 cent! I said to the vault teller, hey, you got a steel cent! She said, yes, do you want it? I said sure and asked if she wanted a penny for it and she said no, since the counting machine rejected it there was nothing for them to do with it so she let me have it! I've never gotten a steel cent in circulation, but this one didn't even cost me a penny!

Very cool!

SIDE NOTE: Used three found-in-change coins for my somethings old, new, and silver "sixpence" : Lincolns 2007 and 1944, then 1946 Dime