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gene2393gene2393 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭
edited July 24, 2021 11:39AM in Metal Detecting

Got this awesome change find yesterday from a vending machine at work. Lol 2011s clad proof glacier quarter


The same vending machine brought me luck to this time a buffalo nickel 1920 d or a (mints almost gone can just see the top of it


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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is indeed a unique find in change. Very nice. Cheers, RickO

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,513 ✭✭✭✭✭

    cool coin :)

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    gene2393gene2393 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    That is indeed a unique find in change. Very nice. Cheers, RickO

    Definitely surprised me lol

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    JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,820 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice one!

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    Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,294 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When you break open proof sets for the Kennedy Half I guess you have to spend the rest - LOL!

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I did that for a couple of years... Then I just stopped the series...Cheers, RickO

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    HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 8, 2021 7:26AM

    @Steven59 said:
    When you break open proof sets for the Kennedy Half I guess you have to spend the rest - LOL!

    I think you are more correct than you think.

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    markelman1125markelman1125 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Check the edge, if there is no copper band, it’s silver

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    gene2393gene2393 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭

    @markelman1125 said:
    Check the edge, if there is no copper band, it’s silver

    Not silver but is a clad proof

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    gene2393gene2393 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭

    Edited

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    JWPJWP Posts: 17,709 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like some one got into dads's or Grampa's collection and busted open a proof set. This not really that uncommon. When I search rolls of quarters, I find S mints and have even found a silver proof. Great find.

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is not uncommon - nor very common - to find proof coins in circulation. Probably from either broken up proof sets (such as to save the half dollar), or disposal of inherited sets - just spending them. I have found a few over the years... Rarely silver, I think only two. Cheers, RickO

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