ScottO Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 961k mintage 2008 olympic £2 coin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreasureGirl Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 1964 Kennedy. I think I scared the poor foreign lady who dumped her change on the counter for us to count. She had a ton of Kennedys, SBAs and Ikes, but just the one silver piece. So I traded her for it. P.S. My hubby is a good learner! He brought me home a 1957 Roosie because it "looked different." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 Got a 1964 Roosie and nice star note, a Chuck-E-Cheese token, and a Bahamas 5 cents yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stilson Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Not a rarity but you don't see them too often, I got a 2004 keel boat nickel today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 Got one of the 2009 Lincoln log cabin cents, my first USA cent from 2009. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted September 20, 2009 Report Share Posted September 20, 2009 Snagged my very first "Professional Life" cent from work today. I'm really surprised at how much detail it has. Makes me wonder how well these coins will hold up to circulation, if they actually do circulate... Also, snagged a handful of nickels ranging from '41-'59, two bicentennial quarters, and a D log splitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stilson Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 1943 Mercury Dime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Not really circulation - came out of a roll of dimes -- 1944-S. Pretty ugly. Lots of dirt. Cleaned probably VG to F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 One of the formative years Lincoln cents, found in my wife's desk - along with lots of pre-1982 bronze cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 1943 Mercury Dime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Older coins seem to be making their break from captivity more and more. Oh! To have access to all of the CoinStar goodies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Tell me about it! I've only made a handful of valuable grabs from circulation ('36 standing liberty half, an '89 proof nickel, and some miscellaneous silvers are at the top), but I have noticed that the proportion of older coins, especially wheaties and nickels from the 40s seems to be on the rise. My guess is that people don't see the point of keeping a penny or nickel that's worth roughly 15 cents, so they just spend them. I still haven't gotten to the point where I could see that being a good idea, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 At the bank yesterday I bought $5 worth of halves from the teller tray, they looked new, and sure enough, there were 8 2006-D and 2 2006-P, mintage of only 2 million and 2.4 million respectively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 They actually have half dollars at your bank? My bank is inundated with agony dollars, but there's not a half to be found... In the literally tens of thousands of transactions I've made at my work, I have only seen two half dollars pass through circulation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 I spend halves pretty regularly, usually have a couple in my pocket any given day to spend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 You ought to swing by my work if you happen to have any '64s you're particularly mad at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Anything dated before 1971 I tend to keep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 Figured I'd go ahead and share with you guys, even though I was not fortunate enough to partake. When I was cashing my paycheck a couple months ago, it was a slow day and I was talking to one of the tellers (all of whom know me as "the coin guy") about the goodies I had been finding in the rolls from them, and she mentioned that a customer had deposited over $100... in silver certificates. She said that it was almost exclusively $1 bills, and most of them were very lightly circulated, if at all. There were even a handful of star notes mixed in. Of course the next customer walked up and asked if he could withdraw $100 and have those bills, so there were none left to be had by the time I got there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 1987 Canadian 5 cents. Oddly, this one was NOT from my work; I got it in change while paying for a pizza. The cashier was completely confused as to why I was looking so intently at the nickel he gave me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Found in my pocket change last Friday! It's getting very hard to find anything like this in circulation after the Swiss switched from silver to CuNi in 1968: SWITZERLAND, 5 francs 1966 (silver!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Nice silver find from Swissland Do you ever come across some of the earlier 10 or 20 rappen coins? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Nice silver find from Swissland Do you ever come across some of the earlier 10 or 20 rappen coins? The earliest I found was 1908 (10 Rappen) and 1912 (20 Rappen), but pretty worn. I also once found a nice 1967 50 Rappen coin in BU in my change! But one will regularly find 10 and 20 Rappen coins in change as old as 1930's and later, for example. Silver coins are scarce because the government recalled them in 1968, and being an obedient folk, most people turned them in at the bank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 But one will regularly find 10 and 20 Rappen coins in change as old as 1930's and later, for example. Silver coins are scarce because the government recalled them in 1968, and being an obedient folk, most people turned them in at the bank! The IRS doesn't think the Swiss were very "obedient" until recently when they started outing the absconders. Switzerland has to be the country along with the USA where it is possible to find nearly 100 year old coins in circulation, I have gotten a couple of 1909 Lincolns in box searches in the last year, recently my earliest has been a 1926. Beats Ukraine where only 1992 on up coins are in circulation, but occasionally I have found a pattern in circulation though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 The IRS doesn't think the Swiss were very "obedient" until recently when they started outing the absconders. Well, they were obedient to their own government, I suppose ... Also, all of the Swiss "CoinStar" machines reject the silver nowadays. Beats Ukraine where only 1992 on up coins are in circulation, but occasionally I have found a pattern in circulation though. And welcome to CoinPeople under your new user (AKA "Scottishmoney") ... I was wondering if someone had stolen your avatar? (I wouldn't mind "stealing" her myself ... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Cool find bobh! I remember when I was in Geneva for a weekend back in 1995, I got a 1946 10-rappen coin in change which I saved. For the 1967 50-rappen, isn't that the same as a silver 1/2 Franc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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