What was your best find in circulation?

route66

Probably a question for the older collectors. What was your best find from circulation? As a kid [in the 50's] I used to go thru a bag of cents once a week. My best find, I found 2- 1955 double dies. Sold them for $10.00 each. In hindsight?? Can anyone beat that.

fishcooker

My 1953 Franklin is cool. Prettiest is probably my 1964 Kennedy that looks BU.

hughesm1

4 years ago I got out of a slot machine a 50-D, 55-D and 60-P Jeff. nickels that grade 64, 63 and 63 respectively. Haven't checked to see if any of them would make the FS designation.

tjkillian

I found a 1926-S Lincoln, VG and a 1906 Indian Cent in G. Several 1938-Ds as well.

Tom

IndianHeadMan

1993 proof Nickel
silver rosies

MacCoin

a well cirulated barber dime 03 if I rember right.

mdwoods

I found a 1924 S Merc in AU. Of course that was about 1963. mdwoods

silverandvinyl

Yesterday I found a Vermont state 25. I can't find a mark on it. This one going for a ride. A very nice 73s Linc and a 64 rosie.These I found over the week-end.

TheNumish

found a North Carolina Quarter with the outer clad layer missing from the obverse. Coin graded MS-63 at PCGS.

cladking

The most I ever sold a circulation find for is $30. It was a 1969 dime struck by a capped
die out of the collar. I got $20 for a 50-D nickel found in 1964 and sold the same day. There
are numerous rarities that I 've plucked from circulation sinse most people quit looking back
in the 60's though. I found a 1977 quarter with type "d" reverse in AU back in 1982 and num-
erous scarce gems including 83-P, 82-P. Some of the greatest modern rarities have been
plucked out of pocket change.

It's not particularly tough, but just yesterday I got a XF/AU 82-D type "d" quarter. These do
exist in unc (unlike the '77), but how many can be left in this grade?

jonesy

Found in change. R7 3 other known.
Glenn

GaCoinGuy

Whats a type 'd' quarter? I found a well worn standing liberty quarter in change about 3 months ago.

cladking

There were two reverses used for quarters starting in 1977. One has a much
lower relief and numerous small differences. The easiest way to spot it is to
look at the right side of the "N" in "UNUM. On the type "d" (or small motto var-
iety) it is much further from the eagle's head. Get a few 1984 issues to look at,
since it gets increasingly common the later dates are far easier to find. It appears
on all the 1977 to '84 quarters from both mints except the 82-P. Only the 81-P
appears in mint sets. (rarely)(~.6%)

There are several really neat quarter varieties, but this one is probably the neatest
since it spans so many coins and dates.

Julian

1942/1 dime in 1964

baccaruda

I've got a handful of Canadian quarters. Seriously I don't find anything. Nothing. My girlfriend just in the past year has found 2 silver roosies, 2 war nickels, and a merc dime. yes she got a merc dime in her change in 2003 - i almost felt bad about pulling it out.

gemtone65

I found a 1910-s cent in 1952. Also, some indian cents could be found at that time in circulation, along with liberty head nickels, and barber dimes and quarters.

csw

A couple of months ago I found a Delaware quarter in your basic uncirculated condition that had its reverse struck weakly. I put it on eBay and it brought $42. That's the best I ever did.

--csw

1956Quarter

1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent in milk money change at school long ago. Some kid must have raided his dads collection as it was UNC.

ARCO

Some junk silver when I worked at Lagoon (an amusement park in Utah) as a kid. Hundreds of wheat cents searching rolls at banks in the late late 70's. and a handful of 35% percent silver nickels doing the same thing.

Best find I ever had was in a convenience store when I was 14. It wasn't old, or even a coin. It was a fresh $20.00 bill at the entrance to the door! To a 14 Yr. old that was some find!

Tyler

BlueCole

When i started collecting a few years ago, i would go to banks, buy rolls, and fill in my whitman's. I got about 10 Narrow rim 1979 SBA's (or it could be wide rim, which ever one is worth appx. 10 bucks) that was the first variety i think i ever found. .. . and those d@$% albums still arn't full!!

B.

Colorfulcoins

1877 Indian Head Cent in AG Condition received in change in 1975. The "price" was was certainly right!

Spudmasher

Found an 1881-CC dollar in VG in around 1960 at the old Suburban Trust Bank in Takoma Park, Md when I used to look for the better dates.

bstat1020

Absolutley Nothing. Maybe a wheat cent every so often but besides that my luck for circulation finds is horrible.

jdimmick

Found a 1970-s SM date Lincoln in about xf-45 in a need apenny take a penny dish at Jerry's Steak House, Rocky Mount, VA about one year ago.

fcloud

I picked up a nice 1939-D (rev of 1938) nickel out of a change machine. PCGS called it an MS63!

seanq

Several 1995 Doubled Die cents, back in early 1995. The first specimen was found one town south of me, and I cleaned out three banks in town within a day of learning about the variety. Also found a 1972 Die #3 DDO in a cash register which ANACS called MS64RB.

Sean Reynolds