The best I have found was a roll of cents that my grandmother gave me. The roll was all Indian Head Cents and the best one in there was a 1909-S in extremely fine condition, back before TPGs. I asked a local coin shop at the time and that was the grade. I was still a teenager and knew even less than I do now. Unfortunately there was no 1877, but quite a few from the 19th Century.
@Jobessi said:
Found this beauty (I zoomed in on the pic) amongst a bulk lots of SLQ's and Silver halves. I know it's hard to tell from the seller pic, but ended up being what I thought it was. A 1916 SLQ! The coin has since been sold, but I'll try and fins the one I took of it.
@IkesT said:
That is very clearly a 1917. The honest thing to do would be to give the buyer their money back.
To add to my previous comment, the 1916 and 1917 Type 1 Standing Liberty quarters have different obverse designs, so an experienced person (including many here on the Forum) can easily and reliably identify 1916 and 1917 quarters even when the dates are worn off.
The strong rivets in the shield serve as one of the useful pickup points for the 1917 Type 1 design (see red arrow on the photo above). Of course, there are many other pickup points for this design, which I will be happy to point out in further detail.
I bought 12000 no date buffalo nickels from another dealer for my bulk bags for inventory While going throught them, this nickel popped out and something told me to look closer
I cherrypicked the first ever identified Mint State 1941 DDO Mercury Dime. I bought it raw for $50 (because of attractive toning) in a 2x2 from a dealer's table at Winter FUN. I ended up getting it graded MS65 and Attributed as FS-101 at PCGS. Not too long after that, I sold it via Great Collections for about $2,000. I have done similar things like this a few times.
"If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64 Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
@Ownerofawheatiehorde said:
I remember a story of Us gold 2.5 in a box of world coins. There was an auction, and you were allowed to sift through the coins before bidding. My friend and one other guy had saw it, and started having a bidding war. Unfortunately, he lost but imagine the auctioneer’s face when it sold!
Same situation. Different result. My friend spotted and scored two quarter ounce early 20th century foreign gold coins in a similar box of world coins for about $50. Nobody recognized them as gold. It was fun to watch.
@Jobessi said:
Found this beauty (I zoomed in on the pic) amongst a bulk lots of SLQ's and Silver halves. I know it's hard to tell from the seller pic, but ended up being what I thought it was. A 1916 SLQ! The coin has since been sold, but I'll try and fins the one I took of it.
Here's another pickup point that shows the quarter is a 1917 Type 1 and not a 1916: the conspicuous incuse inner borders of the wall panels (see red arrow above). Quite a difference in price between a 1916 SLQ and a 1917 Type 1 - the 1917 is probably no more than a $20 coin in that condition...
This is a story I posted here a while back. Probably my fav aquistion.
I have been looking for this date in a more affordable grade for a very long time.
I bought this one from a non-collector who was liquidating his uncle's hoard. The family discovered a huge accumulation of coins in the uncle's apartment. He was a hoarder and they literally had to climb over mountains of stuff just to get in the place. He had some better date silver coins but most of the gold was generic common date stuff, except for this.
Doug Winter estimates that there are about 100 of these in all grades. Now there is 101! Original mintage was 1,460.
Since the seller and I did not really know each other, we decided to each drive 3 hours and meet at a police station to do the deal.
The real fun part was, as his wife was counting the stack of $100 bills he reaches into the back seat of the car and pulls out a zip loc bag filled with gold coins!!!! Had to be $60k worth. He wanted my opinion on which ones are worth submitting for grading. No super rare dates but some potentially higher grades.
As I was looking at very nice St. Gaudens double eagle in a filthy plastic holder, he says "there is quite a story behind that one". As I mentioned, his uncle was a bit of a hoarder and after his death they were going through literal mounds of stuff at his apartment. Before they were able to finish, the building burned down! They found this $20 gold under water in the basement among the debris. The saddest part of the story was the fire destroyed a 1900's era baseball card collection valued at $150k.
I just received word that my 1856-D PCGS XF40 received a CAC sticker. One of only five in all grades. A total of 101 PCGS/NGC grading events.
Very happy! It adds a little more to a great story.
@liefgold said:
This is a story I posted here a while back. Probably my fav aquistion.
I have been looking for this date in a more affordable grade for a very long time.
I bought this one from a non-collector who was liquidating his uncle's hoard. The family discovered a huge accumulation of coins in the uncle's apartment. He was a hoarder and they literally had to climb over mountains of stuff just to get in the place. He had some better date silver coins but most of the gold was generic common date stuff, except for this.
Doug Winter estimates that there are about 100 of these in all grades. Now there is 101! Original mintage was 1,460.
Since the seller and I did not really know each other, we decided to each drive 3 hours and meet at a police station to do the deal.
The real fun part was, as his wife was counting the stack of $100 bills he reaches into the back seat of the car and pulls out a zip loc bag filled with gold coins!!!! Had to be $60k worth. He wanted my opinion on which ones are worth submitting for grading. No super rare dates but some potentially higher grades.
As I was looking at very nice St. Gaudens double eagle in a filthy plastic holder, he says "there is quite a story behind that one". As I mentioned, his uncle was a bit of a hoarder and after his death they were going through literal mounds of stuff at his apartment. Before they were able to finish, the building burned down! They found this $20 gold under water in the basement among the debris. The saddest part of the story was the fire destroyed a 1900's era baseball card collection valued at $150k.
I just received word that my 1856-D PCGS XF40 received a CAC sticker. One of only five in all grades. A total of 101 PCGS/NGC grading events.
Very happy! It adds a little more to a great story.
liefgold
WOW! A very interesting story. Shame about the fire.
I started collecting as an impecunious kid in the early 1960s, so there were lost of buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, standing Liberty quarters, walking Liberty half dollars, and even some Morgan and Peace dollars in circulation.
But the biggest thrill I remember was getting a pretty decent (VF) 1909 VDB cent (yes, I know, it's not a valuable coin, but it's a very cool coin) in change.
@Jobessi said:
Found this beauty (I zoomed in on the pic) amongst a bulk lots of SLQ's and Silver halves. I know it's hard to tell from the seller pic, but ended up being what I thought it was. A 1916 SLQ! The coin has since been sold, but I'll try and fins the one I took of it.
Yet another pickup point that shows your buyer's quarter is a 1917 Type 1 and not a 1916 - the deepest part of the crease in Liberty's sash is centered above her skirt, rather than above the ledge (see red arrow above).
@Jobessi said:
Found this beauty (I zoomed in on the pic) amongst a bulk lots of SLQ's and Silver halves. I know it's hard to tell from the seller pic, but ended up being what I thought it was. A 1916 SLQ! The coin has since been sold, but I'll try and fins the one I took of it.
Yet another pickup point that shows your buyer's quarter is a 1917 Type 1 and not a 1916 - the deepest part of the crease in Liberty's sash is centered above her skirt, rather than above the ledge (see red arrow above).
Good call. The 16 doesn't have shield rivets that strong either.
@liefgold said:
This is a story I posted here a while back. Probably my fav aquistion.
I have been looking for this date in a more affordable grade for a very long time.
I bought this one from a non-collector who was liquidating his uncle's hoard. The family discovered a huge accumulation of coins in the uncle's apartment. He was a hoarder and they literally had to climb over mountains of stuff just to get in the place. He had some better date silver coins but most of the gold was generic common date stuff, except for this.
Doug Winter estimates that there are about 100 of these in all grades. Now there is 101! Original mintage was 1,460.
Since the seller and I did not really know each other, we decided to each drive 3 hours and meet at a police station to do the deal.
The real fun part was, as his wife was counting the stack of $100 bills he reaches into the back seat of the car and pulls out a zip loc bag filled with gold coins!!!! Had to be $60k worth. He wanted my opinion on which ones are worth submitting for grading. No super rare dates but some potentially higher grades.
As I was looking at very nice St. Gaudens double eagle in a filthy plastic holder, he says "there is quite a story behind that one". As I mentioned, his uncle was a bit of a hoarder and after his death they were going through literal mounds of stuff at his apartment. Before they were able to finish, the building burned down! They found this $20 gold under water in the basement among the debris. The saddest part of the story was the fire destroyed a 1900's era baseball card collection valued at $150k.
I just received word that my 1856-D PCGS XF40 received a CAC sticker. One of only five in all grades. A total of 101 PCGS/NGC grading events.
Very happy! It adds a little more to a great story.
@asheland said:
The picture speaks for itself. Yes the customer was paid accordingly.
It was sent to PCGS and I ended up buying it.
WOW! And that is great. How did it grade? Was it a collection I assume? What about the half dime?
It made a fine 12, the other stuff was sold in the shop, I can't recall the details, it was early last year, but the bust quarter was love at first sight for me!
@asheland said:
The picture speaks for itself. Yes the customer was paid accordingly.
It was sent to PCGS and I ended up buying it.
WOW! And that is great. How did it grade? Was it a collection I assume? What about the half dime?
It made a fine 12, the other stuff was sold in the shop, I can't recall the details, it was early last year, but the bust quarter was love at first sight for me!
@asheland said:
The picture speaks for itself. Yes the customer was paid accordingly.
It was sent to PCGS and I ended up buying it.
WOW! And that is great. How did it grade? Was it a collection I assume? What about the half dime?
It made a fine 12, the other stuff was sold in the shop, I can't recall the details, it was early last year, but the bust quarter was love at first sight for me!
Here's one of my favorites...
I bought a bunch of 8r's like this out of an old collection before toned portrait 8's got hot.
I believe this one made it into a P53 holder... and eventually into CRO's inventory.
Adios amigos, I sold all but 2 😪
@humanssuck said:
I had a distant relative who had a collection that had been passed down to them that had been collected in the 1950's. It had a lot of nice circulated barber coinage as well as nice AU later year buffalo nickels and walkers pulled from circulation. The nicest coin was this:
Nice BB-159 / B-16. Good strikes soon after the clash in higher grades often show the full date transferred in the upper reverse.
From a vintage roll I purchased in the early days of ebay...no, it wasn't one of the end coins.
1897 "1 in Neck"
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
@Jobessi said:
Found this beauty (I zoomed in on the pic) amongst a bulk lots of SLQ's and Silver halves. I know it's hard to tell from the seller pic, but ended up being what I thought it was. A 1916 SLQ! The coin has since been sold, but I'll try and fins the one I took of it.
Welcome back - I see you made an appearance on the Q&A forum. Just to recap, I tried to tell you that your "1916" SLQ is actually a 1917 Type 1, but you abruptly disappeared when I tried to help you... Another way you can tell the coin is a 1917 is that there are 3 folds in the gown under Liberty's sash (see red arrow in photo above). Fortunately, there are many pickup points to distinguish between a dateless 1917 Type 1 and 1916 standing Liberty quarter!
I’ve done a fair amount of roll searching and found a few goodies along the way, including some silver.
Nothing as cool as this Coinstar haul of a month or so back.
Including a 1917 dateless Standing Liberty quarter. My brief hopes for a 1016 were dashed when I noticed the strong rivets in the shield. Still an amazing haul of silver with a couple of Canadian bucks mixed in. ALL silver on the US stuff too. Note- this has been previously shared in the Coinstar finds thread, minus the details on the quarter.
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I once received an AU 1909-P Lincoln cent in change. I was around 12 at the time. It has been lost along the way in the five decades that have since passed but I still remember the coin. It even had some mint luster.
A 1921 Mercury dime in AG3-G4, found in change when I was 7. My brother filled lots of holes searching through rolls, but I found the scarcest one in my parent's change.
A 1798/7 16-stars dime turned into a love token, found in a $2 junkbox at a Beltway coin show, 1986-ish.
An 1874-S WB-4 seated half (2nd known) discovered in my Dansco collection from seller's pictures of the coin, April 24, 2021. I happen to know the date because I posted the find here a few hours after the discovery.
An early die state 1855/54 discovered instantly* when I finally brought the collection home for die marriage attribution, which launched a crazy three months of cherry picking the date.
*it happened to be the first coin I saw in focus holding it up to my dissecting scope. The overdate "85" was so striking that I had to find out what date it was. I had only a late die state so I had no idea how pronounced the overdate can be. That got me digging into the 55/54, learning how to spot them in blurry photos, and then going on a crazy cherry-picking spree for three months, even helping a seller quickly sell their unrecognized overdate for 2.5 times their original asking price. Here's some of that booty. Check out the "one that got away"
Not sure if these would truly qualify as being found in the wild. Found them about a year ago in a bank roll. No question they were sitting in this roll for some 22 years and not in circulation.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
@OAKSTAR said:
Not sure if these would truly qualify as being found in the wild. Found them about a year ago in a bank roll. No question they were sitting in this roll for some 22 years and not in circulation.
That is much more of a find than usual and is highly underrated. Not only find the variety but to find them in such stellar condition is a needle in three haystacks.
Thanks @braddick! I don't take it for granted, believe me. I know I got lucky. It was as if they were mixed in with the roll. I couldn't figure it out. I'm still trying to figure it out after almost two years now!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
@OAKSTAR said:
Thanks @braddick! I don't take it for granted, believe me. I know I got lucky. It was as if they were mixed in with the roll. I couldn't figure it out. I'm still trying to figure it out after almost two years now!
Coins that are minted together tend to ship out together and get rolled up together - so if you find a variety in an original UNC roll, your chances of finding additional coins of the same variety are definitely increased. Great find!
@OAKSTAR said:
Thanks @braddick! I don't take it for granted, believe me. I know I got lucky. It was as if they were mixed in with the roll. I couldn't figure it out. I'm still trying to figure it out after almost two years now!
Coins that are minted together tend to ship out together and get rolled up together - so if you find a variety in an original UNC roll, your chances of finding additional coins of the same variety are definitely increased. Great find!
Yes, I understand your theory... Makes perfect sense. I just can't visualize or understand the minting process. So maybe there were multiple machines spitting out 2000-P Sacagawea's, one of these machines was spitting out wounded eagle's (before the anomaly was caught) and they got mixed into the same bins? I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
@OAKSTAR said:
Thanks @braddick! I don't take it for granted, believe me. I know I got lucky. It was as if they were mixed in with the roll. I couldn't figure it out. I'm still trying to figure it out after almost two years now!
Coins that are minted together tend to ship out together and get rolled up together - so if you find a variety in an original UNC roll, your chances of finding additional coins of the same variety are definitely increased. Great find!
Yes, I understand your theory... Makes perfect sense. I just can't visualize or understand the minting process. So maybe there were multiple machines spitting out 2000-P Sacagawea's, one of these machines was spitting out wounded eagle's (before the anomaly was caught) and they got mixed into the same bins? I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud.
Yes, I think that's essentially how it would have happened. There would have been some degree of mixing of coins coming from different die presses, as you say, but you would end up with a batch of coins that had an elevated number of wounded eagles in it. The die gouge may never have been caught, by the way. A lot of die pairs are needed in order to strike a mintage of 767.14 million coins, so overall, the variety is going to be a needle in a haystack even if the wounded eagle die had a full run.
Coincidentally, I had a similar experience with 2000 p Sac dollars - I picked up a couple of UNC rolls that ended up having more than one of the same variety in them. The variety has feeder finger scrapes that make Sacagawea look like she has cat whiskers.
My best find is this coin, that was contained in a $25.00 OGP proof set and purchased by me in December, 2011 (i did not realize it was the big DDR until a few hours after I bought the set).
@OAKSTAR said:
Thanks @braddick! I don't take it for granted, believe me. I know I got lucky. It was as if they were mixed in with the roll. I couldn't figure it out. I'm still trying to figure it out after almost two years now!
Coins that are minted together tend to ship out together and get rolled up together - so if you find a variety in an original UNC roll, your chances of finding additional coins of the same variety are definitely increased. Great find!
Yes, I understand your theory... Makes perfect sense. I just can't visualize or understand the minting process. So maybe there were multiple machines spitting out 2000-P Sacagawea's, one of these machines was spitting out wounded eagle's (before the anomaly was caught) and they got mixed into the same bins? I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud.
Yes, I think that's essentially how it would have happened. There would have been some degree of mixing of coins coming from different die presses, as you say, but you would end up with a batch of coins that had an elevated number of wounded eagles in it. The die gouge may never have been caught, by the way. A lot of die pairs are needed in order to strike a mintage of 767.14 million coins, so overall, the variety is going to be a needle in a haystack even if the wounded eagle die had a full run.
Coincidentally, I had a similar experience with 2000 p Sac dollars - I picked up a couple of UNC rolls that ended up having more than one of the same variety in them. The variety has feeder finger scrapes that make Sacagawea look like she has cat whiskers.
Interesting.
In addition to your Sacagawea feeder finger roll experience, I had something similar. Back during the W quarter rage, I was finding 2 and 3 W's in uncirculated rolls from boxes This was just as the Mint described. They Mixed the W's in with the Philly strikes.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
@OAKSTAR said:
Thanks @braddick! I don't take it for granted, believe me. I know I got lucky. It was as if they were mixed in with the roll. I couldn't figure it out. I'm still trying to figure it out after almost two years now!
Coins that are minted together tend to ship out together and get rolled up together - so if you find a variety in an original UNC roll, your chances of finding additional coins of the same variety are definitely increased. Great find!
Yes, I understand your theory... Makes perfect sense. I just can't visualize or understand the minting process. So maybe there were multiple machines spitting out 2000-P Sacagawea's, one of these machines was spitting out wounded eagle's (before the anomaly was caught) and they got mixed into the same bins? I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud.
Yes, I think that's essentially how it would have happened. There would have been some degree of mixing of coins coming from different die presses, as you say, but you would end up with a batch of coins that had an elevated number of wounded eagles in it. The die gouge may never have been caught, by the way. A lot of die pairs are needed in order to strike a mintage of 767.14 million coins, so overall, the variety is going to be a needle in a haystack even if the wounded eagle die had a full run.
Coincidentally, I had a similar experience with 2000 p Sac dollars - I picked up a couple of UNC rolls that ended up having more than one of the same variety in them. The variety has feeder finger scrapes that make Sacagawea look like she has cat whiskers.
Interesting.
In addition to your Sacagawea feeder finger roll experience, I had something similar. Back during the W quarter rage, I was finding 2 and 3 W's in uncirculated rolls from boxes This was just as the Mint described. They Mixed the W's in with the Philly strikes.
That raises another point, which is that the mixing can also occur later after the minting process. When people at the rolling facilities dump coins from mint bags into their rolling machines, the coins that were minted together will still tend to stay together, but they may get diluted a bit if coins from different batches are being mixed.
@OAKSTAR said:
Not sure if these would truly qualify as being found in the wild. Found them about a year ago in a bank roll. No question they were sitting in this roll for some 22 years and not in circulation.
My find in the wild was when I was around 12 years old (1983ish) and sparked my coin collecting. I was fishing at a pond in the middle of the summer and took a break under a huge oak tree. It was a cattle field so the ground was mostly dust. Sitting there in the dust plain as day was a 1941 Mercury. I hadn’t ever seen one and thought it was cool looking. Showed my dad and he thought it looked damaged and worth a few bucks at the time. The fact a dime could be worth a few bucks blew my mind. He proceeded to show me granddad’s Lincoln cent collection he had inherited (holes all over the place btw). I started sticking cents in it over the years, learning about Lincoln’s.
Years and years later, the wonder of the Interwebs got me looking back at my Mercury. It obviously wasn’t FB (more like a No-Bands). But turned out that “damaged” date my dad saw was actually a 1942/1. So my “worth a few bucks” dime that my dumb teenage butt shined up every now and then… (yes feel free to cringe now) was a bit more than a few bucks.
It’s buried deep in my collection and literally my first collected coin. One day I might get around to slabbing it — but I sort of like having it there unadulterated (not encased in a plastic casket) like I found it. It would absolutely end up with a DETAILS — CLEANED LIKE CRAZY grade lol. But it had been cleaned so much, carried in my pocket and dumped in with rocks, arrowheads, and other random coins so often that it might just come off as a run of the mill G now that it’s sat untouched and rarely even sees the light of day.
Thankfully my dad held the Lincoln collection back from me until I was an adult (or else they would probably all been very pretty and shiny). Since then I’ve filled in all those holes and then my OCD kicked in and started to replace lower grades and obtaining every cherry picker variety, tons of Lincoln true errors (mules, wrong planchet, struck through, etc.). That one Merc under a tree 40 years ago multiplied into an obsession. and
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The best I have found was a roll of cents that my grandmother gave me. The roll was all Indian Head Cents and the best one in there was a 1909-S in extremely fine condition, back before TPGs. I asked a local coin shop at the time and that was the grade. I was still a teenager and knew even less than I do now. Unfortunately there was no 1877, but quite a few from the 19th Century.
To add to my previous comment, the 1916 and 1917 Type 1 Standing Liberty quarters have different obverse designs, so an experienced person (including many here on the Forum) can easily and reliably identify 1916 and 1917 quarters even when the dates are worn off.
The strong rivets in the shield serve as one of the useful pickup points for the 1917 Type 1 design (see red arrow on the photo above). Of course, there are many other pickup points for this design, which I will be happy to point out in further detail.
I bought 12000 no date buffalo nickels from another dealer for my bulk bags for inventory While going throught them, this nickel popped out and something told me to look closer
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I cherrypicked the first ever identified Mint State 1941 DDO Mercury Dime. I bought it raw for $50 (because of attractive toning) in a 2x2 from a dealer's table at Winter FUN. I ended up getting it graded MS65 and Attributed as FS-101 at PCGS. Not too long after that, I sold it via Great Collections for about $2,000. I have done similar things like this a few times.
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
22 no D in an eBay album for right around $100 +/-
Same situation. Different result. My friend spotted and scored two quarter ounce early 20th century foreign gold coins in a similar box of world coins for about $50. Nobody recognized them as gold. It was fun to watch.
Here's another pickup point that shows the quarter is a 1917 Type 1 and not a 1916: the conspicuous incuse inner borders of the wall panels (see red arrow above). Quite a difference in price between a 1916 SLQ and a 1917 Type 1 - the 1917 is probably no more than a $20 coin in that condition...
This is a story I posted here a while back. Probably my fav aquistion.
I have been looking for this date in a more affordable grade for a very long time.
I bought this one from a non-collector who was liquidating his uncle's hoard. The family discovered a huge accumulation of coins in the uncle's apartment. He was a hoarder and they literally had to climb over mountains of stuff just to get in the place. He had some better date silver coins but most of the gold was generic common date stuff, except for this.
Doug Winter estimates that there are about 100 of these in all grades. Now there is 101! Original mintage was 1,460.
Since the seller and I did not really know each other, we decided to each drive 3 hours and meet at a police station to do the deal.
The real fun part was, as his wife was counting the stack of $100 bills he reaches into the back seat of the car and pulls out a zip loc bag filled with gold coins!!!! Had to be $60k worth. He wanted my opinion on which ones are worth submitting for grading. No super rare dates but some potentially higher grades.
As I was looking at very nice St. Gaudens double eagle in a filthy plastic holder, he says "there is quite a story behind that one". As I mentioned, his uncle was a bit of a hoarder and after his death they were going through literal mounds of stuff at his apartment. Before they were able to finish, the building burned down! They found this $20 gold under water in the basement among the debris. The saddest part of the story was the fire destroyed a 1900's era baseball card collection valued at $150k.
I just received word that my 1856-D PCGS XF40 received a CAC sticker. One of only five in all grades. A total of 101 PCGS/NGC grading events.
Very happy! It adds a little more to a great story.
liefgold
WOW! A very interesting story. Shame about the fire.
I interpret "in the wild" to mean "in change."
I started collecting as an impecunious kid in the early 1960s, so there were lost of buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, standing Liberty quarters, walking Liberty half dollars, and even some Morgan and Peace dollars in circulation.
But the biggest thrill I remember was getting a pretty decent (VF) 1909 VDB cent (yes, I know, it's not a valuable coin, but it's a very cool coin) in change.
This one is for cards, not coins. Not me either, but a fantastic find.
https://intelligentcollector.com/from-almost-trash-to-treasure-one-of-baseballs-rarest-card-sets-discovered-in-long-forgotten-scrapbook/?ctrack=593200&type=article2-5-www-icmag-sept-ver2-tem091923
Yet another pickup point that shows your buyer's quarter is a 1917 Type 1 and not a 1916 - the deepest part of the crease in Liberty's sash is centered above her skirt, rather than above the ledge (see red arrow above).
Here are my most rarest coins!
The most amazing part is that I Coin Roll hunted, both of these down within 2 months of each other!
Almost identical!
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Coolest one for me was a dealer friend of mine bought a lot of Indian head cents in a box and there was a bust half randomly thrown in there.
Turned out to be a 1812/1 large 8. It graded AU55.
BHNC #248 … 108 and counting.
Good call. The 16 doesn't have shield rivets that strong either.
The picture speaks for itself. Yes the customer was paid accordingly.
It was sent to PCGS and I ended up buying it.
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WOW! And that is great. How did it grade? Was it a collection I assume? What about the half dime?
One of my favorite stories and coins on the site!
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It made a fine 12, the other stuff was sold in the shop, I can't recall the details, it was early last year, but the bust quarter was love at first sight for me!
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Nice!
Coin Week has an article out about a massive number of unopened 1940s and 1950s proof sets that just sold in auction for about $1m. https://coinweek.com/coins-stashed-in-garage-top-987000-at-heritage-auction/
I wonder how long until they’re opened (if they are opened) and sold? Might wreak some havoc on populations.
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Here's one of my favorites...
I bought a bunch of 8r's like this out of an old collection before toned portrait 8's got hot.
I believe this one made it into a P53 holder... and eventually into CRO's inventory.
Adios amigos, I sold all but 2 😪
Nice BB-159 / B-16. Good strikes soon after the clash in higher grades often show the full date transferred in the upper reverse.
From a vintage roll I purchased in the early days of ebay...no, it wasn't one of the end coins.
1897 "1 in Neck"
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
Welcome back - I see you made an appearance on the Q&A forum. Just to recap, I tried to tell you that your "1916" SLQ is actually a 1917 Type 1, but you abruptly disappeared when I tried to help you... Another way you can tell the coin is a 1917 is that there are 3 folds in the gown under Liberty's sash (see red arrow in photo above). Fortunately, there are many pickup points to distinguish between a dateless 1917 Type 1 and 1916 standing Liberty quarter!
I’ve done a fair amount of roll searching and found a few goodies along the way, including some silver.
Nothing as cool as this Coinstar haul of a month or so back.
Including a 1917 dateless Standing Liberty quarter. My brief hopes for a 1016 were dashed when I noticed the strong rivets in the shield. Still an amazing haul of silver with a couple of Canadian bucks mixed in. ALL silver on the US stuff too. Note- this has been previously shared in the Coinstar finds thread, minus the details on the quarter.
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
You are having too much fun!
I once received an AU 1909-P Lincoln cent in change. I was around 12 at the time. It has been lost along the way in the five decades that have since passed but I still remember the coin. It even had some mint luster.
A 1921 Mercury dime in AG3-G4, found in change when I was 7. My brother filled lots of holes searching through rolls, but I found the scarcest one in my parent's change.
A 1798/7 16-stars dime turned into a love token, found in a $2 junkbox at a Beltway coin show, 1986-ish.
An 1874-S WB-4 seated half (2nd known) discovered in my Dansco collection from seller's pictures of the coin, April 24, 2021. I happen to know the date because I posted the find here a few hours after the discovery.
An early die state 1855/54 discovered instantly* when I finally brought the collection home for die marriage attribution, which launched a crazy three months of cherry picking the date.
*it happened to be the first coin I saw in focus holding it up to my dissecting scope. The overdate "85" was so striking that I had to find out what date it was. I had only a late die state so I had no idea how pronounced the overdate can be. That got me digging into the 55/54, learning how to spot them in blurry photos, and then going on a crazy cherry-picking spree for three months, even helping a seller quickly sell their unrecognized overdate for 2.5 times their original asking price. Here's some of that booty. Check out the "one that got away"
Got away somehow for $333. It's a 4-figure coin.
Picked this in change many years ago. I still keep it in my Registry.
Here you go.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc
Wow! A dream find for a penny roll hunter! That must have been exciting.
Not sure if these would truly qualify as being found in the wild. Found them about a year ago in a bank roll. No question they were sitting in this roll for some 22 years and not in circulation.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
That is much more of a find than usual and is highly underrated. Not only find the variety but to find them in such stellar condition is a needle in three haystacks.
Nice going!
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Thanks @braddick! I don't take it for granted, believe me. I know I got lucky. It was as if they were mixed in with the roll. I couldn't figure it out. I'm still trying to figure it out after almost two years now!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Coins that are minted together tend to ship out together and get rolled up together - so if you find a variety in an original UNC roll, your chances of finding additional coins of the same variety are definitely increased. Great find!
Yes, I understand your theory... Makes perfect sense. I just can't visualize or understand the minting process. So maybe there were multiple machines spitting out 2000-P Sacagawea's, one of these machines was spitting out wounded eagle's (before the anomaly was caught) and they got mixed into the same bins? I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Yes, I think that's essentially how it would have happened. There would have been some degree of mixing of coins coming from different die presses, as you say, but you would end up with a batch of coins that had an elevated number of wounded eagles in it. The die gouge may never have been caught, by the way. A lot of die pairs are needed in order to strike a mintage of 767.14 million coins, so overall, the variety is going to be a needle in a haystack even if the wounded eagle die had a full run.
Coincidentally, I had a similar experience with 2000 p Sac dollars - I picked up a couple of UNC rolls that ended up having more than one of the same variety in them. The variety has feeder finger scrapes that make Sacagawea look like she has cat whiskers.
My best find is this coin, that was contained in a $25.00 OGP proof set and purchased by me in December, 2011 (i did not realize it was the big DDR until a few hours after I bought the set).
It graded PF67 in 2021.
Interesting.
In addition to your Sacagawea feeder finger roll experience, I had something similar. Back during the W quarter rage, I was finding 2 and 3 W's in uncirculated rolls from boxes This was just as the Mint described. They Mixed the W's in with the Philly strikes.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
That raises another point, which is that the mixing can also occur later after the minting process. When people at the rolling facilities dump coins from mint bags into their rolling machines, the coins that were minted together will still tend to stay together, but they may get diluted a bit if coins from different batches are being mixed.
I think we covered it @IkesT 👍🏻 👍
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dunno if it's "in the wild" but there's that 1792 half disme found in a dealer's junk box
You suck!
(That's a high honor here)
@Barberian 😉 👍
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Are there other coins there in the background as well?
My find in the wild was when I was around 12 years old (1983ish) and sparked my coin collecting. I was fishing at a pond in the middle of the summer and took a break under a huge oak tree. It was a cattle field so the ground was mostly dust. Sitting there in the dust plain as day was a 1941 Mercury. I hadn’t ever seen one and thought it was cool looking. Showed my dad and he thought it looked damaged and worth a few bucks at the time. The fact a dime could be worth a few bucks blew my mind. He proceeded to show me granddad’s Lincoln cent collection he had inherited (holes all over the place btw). I started sticking cents in it over the years, learning about Lincoln’s.
Years and years later, the wonder of the Interwebs got me looking back at my Mercury. It obviously wasn’t FB (more like a No-Bands). But turned out that “damaged” date my dad saw was actually a 1942/1. So my “worth a few bucks” dime that my dumb teenage butt shined up every now and then… (yes feel free to cringe now) was a bit more than a few bucks.
It’s buried deep in my collection and literally my first collected coin. One day I might get around to slabbing it — but I sort of like having it there unadulterated (not encased in a plastic casket) like I found it. It would absolutely end up with a DETAILS — CLEANED LIKE CRAZY grade lol. But it had been cleaned so much, carried in my pocket and dumped in with rocks, arrowheads, and other random coins so often that it might just come off as a run of the mill G now that it’s sat untouched and rarely even sees the light of day.
Thankfully my dad held the Lincoln collection back from me until I was an adult (or else they would probably all been very pretty and shiny). Since then I’ve filled in all those holes and then my OCD kicked in and started to replace lower grades and obtaining every cherry picker variety, tons of Lincoln true errors (mules, wrong planchet, struck through, etc.). That one Merc under a tree 40 years ago multiplied into an obsession.
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