I'm ecstatic! Genuine G Details (Environmental Damage)
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A VERY long story shorter...
It was my pocket coin. Perhaps my first pocket coin.
Who knows what it's been through, I genuinely have no idea but it wouldn't surprise me if I may have dipped it in Mama's nail polish at one point lol.
It was sometime around 1978, I was 9. I carried it everywhere for a couple years. I remember taking it to Show and Tell at school a couple times at least. Somehow I never lost it.
Until that time I lost it for over 30 years.
Showed up in an old cardboard Whitman box for those old thick plastic 2x2s after I moved a few years ago.
I remembered it immediately.
Thank you PCGS I love it 
It's pink lol.
1861 1C Genuine - G Details (97 - Environmental Damage) - https://www.pcgs.com/cert/44679492
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"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
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Sometimes it’s all about the sentimental value.
Very nice short story.
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All of my collection is in a safe deposit box!
I like it. The story and the coin.
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Nice. Good thing you found it! I once lost a few gold coins in a pill bottle for several months, found them in my brother's lunchbox. I just wish I never sold them... One was a holed, round 50 cent California privately made coin. Sold for $40. Then a type 1 gold dollar that had a loop on it (jewelry). Traded it for an 1899 black eagle dollar note. Then an Indian princess dollar, I think it was a big head. Sold for $200. Don't remember any dates. I started numismatics at about five years old, and made several poor decisions regarding my collection from then until I was about 13. I spent several 1964 Kennedys at gas stations, and sold some of my best coins and bought several lower-end coins with the money I got.
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I have a few coins that I have placed in 2x2 with notes written on them. Things like, "Grandmother's collection", "Grandfather's Collection" or "Metal detecting find with kids". Congrats on rediscovering the cent!
A find after 30 years is sweet! Peace Roy
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When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, I traded a raw BU 1881 eagle for an ANACS AU55 1877 Trade $1. What was I thinking?!? Gold was about $325/oz or so at the time.
Nice find and I am sure it brings back memories. I have a couple of coins from my childhood that did not get lost or spent - nothing of significant value beyond sentiment. One is a nice Two Cent piece.... Had that since I was about nine years old. Cheers, RickO
Congratulations!
Family were not coin collectors. Going through family coins there were some foreign coins of low value, an "L" 1864 cent in low grade and some 90% silver. Family was more into mainstream publishing and culture. There was also a Continental dollar made of lead and a Louisiana purchase coin that as a child I thought might entitle the owner to a piece of that land, also as a kid I thought that anyone could write checks when they needed to buy stuff, not making the connection to bank funds.
Totally cool!
I still have my six circulated Barber Dimes I bought in the 1970s with my lawn mowing money - don't have the heart to part with them.
So what's the prequel? Did you find it, buy it, was a gift, etc?
Hey that's a great question! My Dad is still around, there is a slight chance he'd remember.
A couple years later I got more serious about collecting when my Mom gave me some 1 Pound coins she had saved from England and then my Grandma on my Dad's side gave me a few silver half dollars or something, I genuinely can't remember.
This Indian Cent...my best guess is that it came out of a penny roll in NW Indiana around 1977.
We used to take our allowance and bike a couple miles (like the kids from Stand By Me) to a local pharmacy to buy some candy, or worms, or go next door to the bank and buy a couple rolls of pennies. We had many adventures!
I vividly remember dumping those rolls of pennies into a small grass field where we would literally sit by the railroad tracks and the lake of an old brickyard (true story) and search the piles of pennies in the grass lol.
I really think I either found it in a roll or one of my "coin searching" buddies gave it to me at the time.
Thanks for asking! So much fun to think about
I'll have to give my Dad a call tonight 
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
PS: Looks VG details to me. . .
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