what is the wildest thing youve found in a roll.

atarian

in a penny roll what is the coolest thing youve ever found

second part is the oldest.


nicest coin youve seen

homemade

Coolest find in a penny roll was an 1897 IHC in AG.

Oldest- see above.

The nicest coins I've found are 50's wheats and 60's memorials in high AU/low MS.

The only thing I miss about working as a cashier is being able to go through endless amount of coins and currency. Now I have to settle for going through whats handed back to me or what I get at the bank.

WaterSport

If your talking a long time ago...Like 1968, when I first started collecting...a 1924 D in G-AG. Still in the collection today!

WS

haletj

I don't remember what I found when I searched circulated rolls as a kid. Probably just wheat pennies from the 40's and 50's.

I search uncirculated rolls now, have found 2 blank planchets. Have found some quite neat toning on a few, and have found lots of really nice high grades. 68-s,69-d and 70-s are three of my nicest pennies!

coinguy89

A canadian cent, doesn't get any better for me.

ziggy29

Me? In rolls, not that much. I've found cents going back to 1910 in change, though.

Oh, the stories my dad could tell here. He got me started on collecting when I was a munchkin in the early 1970s. He was a pilot in the Air Force, and that included a stint of about 2-3 years in Puerto Rico in the early 1960s. Now Puerto Rico was circulating American coinage, of course, but they were just poor enough that they couldn't afford the luxury of saving coins they found. A large amount of his early collection was built from change received in commerce there -- lots of Barber coins, Indians, early Lincolns, Liberty and Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, SLQs, Walkers and all Barber coinage were seen with surprising frequency. He darned near half-filled the Barber collections with coins he found in circulation, got most of the Buffaloes and Mercs, *may* have had most of the SLQs (though the dates were worn off many so you know they were pre-1925), and most of the Walkers. He had almost all Indians post-1878 (except for the S-mint pieces) several times over, with few exceptions -- and an occasional, well-worn date before then.

He found quite a few better dates, too -- 1924-D cents, 1921 and 1921-D Mercs, 1921 Walkers from all mints. He never found an '09-S VDB or a '16-D dime, but still, this isn't a bad record. As far as I know, he still has a lot of that stuff, though as the years went by and he became a bit more prosperous, he started acquiring a lot of other items through mail-bid auctions -- mostly from what was then Bowers and Ruddy -- back in the pre-Internet days when you could get some really good buys.

That must have been a wonderful time and place to be a low-budget collector. We'll never see times like that again. And without that experience of his, I'm probably not a collector today. It's all Dad's fault!

tjkillian

A New York city subway token. I 1906 indian cent, a dime.

Tom

mgoodm3

i found a dime in a penny roll. 9 cents profit!

oldest 1919 cent ag.

not much of anything nice.

haletj

Oh wait, I remember I found a 90-s Proof in a roll of circulated pennies once. Yeah, I've found lots of dimes too! I could make a tidy little profit by buying lots of rolls from the bank and picking out the dimes!

ksteelheader

My grand daughter pulled a P01 1914-D out of rolls we were searchimg!!

JrGMan2004

Copper Plated 1943 Cent...

kamehameha00

1974-P Lincoln Cent with large obverse cud, and the reverse shows no detail at all where the cud on the obverse is.

RCDB

In 1961 at the age of 10, I found a 1909 S VDB. My father was a collector and we would search rolls from banks and subway token booths regularly. During my search, I came across a penny that obviously had fallen behind something and had been sitting obverse up. It had some gummy looking goop covering the date. I din't feel like picking away the goop, so I threw it back in the pile. After we were finished my father and I just looked at each other and shrugged. "Nothing", he said. I said no, but that there was one penny whose date I could not read. He asked me to show it to him. I did and he did something I never would have thought of. He looked at the reverse. And there, on a nearly pristine reverse, was a very clear VDB. He starting picking away the goop with his fingernail and lo and behold, 1909 S.
Unfortunately a couple of years later, he allowed our local coin dealer to clean the coin. The obverse had issues, but the back was AU/BU. Well, recently I sent the coin in to NCS were it now resides in a VF Corroded holder. This story brings back alot of memories. Ten years old and not a care in the world.

ziggy29

<< <i>Unfortunately a couple of years later, he allowed our local coin dealer to clean the coin. The obverse had issues, but the back was AU/BU. Well, recently I sent the coin in to NCS were it now resides in a VF Corroded holder. This story brings back alot of memories. Ten years old and not a care in the world. >>

Wow. The cleaning is the bad news. But the good news is that the memories and excitement this must have brought when you realized what you had make this far more valuable personally than whatever it otherwise would have been worth...

nwcs

I once found a small alien colony inside a roll.

Gonfunko

<< <i>Me? In rolls, not that much. I've found cents going back to 1910 in change, though.

Oh, the stories my dad could tell here. He got me started on collecting when I was a munchkin in the early 1970s. He was a pilot in the Air Force, and that included a stint of about 2-3 years in Puerto Rico in the early 1960s. Now Puerto Rico was circulating American coinage, of course, but they were just poor enough that they couldn't afford the luxury of saving coins they found. A large amount of his early collection was built from change received in commerce there -- lots of Barber coins, Indians, early Lincolns, Liberty and Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, SLQs, Walkers and all Barber coinage were seen with surprising frequency. He darned near half-filled the Barber collections with coins he found in circulation, got most of the Buffaloes and Mercs, *may* have had most of the SLQs (though the dates were worn off many so you know they were pre-1925), and most of the Walkers. He had almost all Indians post-1878 (except for the S-mint pieces) several times over, with few exceptions -- and an occasional, well-worn date before then.

He found quite a few better dates, too -- 1924-D cents, 1921 and 1921-D Mercs, 1921 Walkers from all mints. He never found an '09-S VDB or a '16-D dime, but still, this isn't a bad record. As far as I know, he still has a lot of that stuff, though as the years went by and he became a bit more prosperous, he started acquiring a lot of other items through mail-bid auctions -- mostly from what was then Bowers and Ruddy -- back in the pre-Internet days when you could get some really good buys.

That must have been a wonderful time and place to be a low-budget collector. We'll never see times like that again. And without that experience of his, I'm probably not a collector today. It's all Dad's fault! >>


WOW! I sure wish Puerto Rico had as many good circulation finds today as it did then! Why is it that I always live in places after all the good stuff has happenned there??

atarian

i still think my 1886 var II cent IH is the nicest item so far. alot of wheats and others but an IH is nice

ziggy29

<< <i>WOW! I sure wish Puerto Rico had as many good circulation finds today as it did then! Why is it that I always live in places after all the good stuff has happenned there?? >>

Yeah, in some ways, that generation had it better than any of its descending generations ever will -- but there are also plenty of other ways that younger generations will have it better than they ever did. Coin collecting from circulation just isn't one of them.

wingedliberty

I have found the following.

1. 1971 1c DDO-1 MS-61BN
2. 1972 1c DDO-7 about 4 examples in various grades.
3. 1995 1c DDO-1 about 3 examples in various grades.
4. 1914D 1c G4
5. assorted silver dimes, war nickels, etc.
6. assorted foreign, ie Bahamas, etc.
7. 40% Kennedy, and 1964 Kennedies,
8. a couple of AG3 Wakers and Barbers.

thats about it.

granddad

1909-s vf.

Baley

panama cent

cohodk

a plastic "penny" with the word COPY

A 1972 ddo lincoln. Noth the expensive one.. But i still sold it for $50 on ebay.

poorguy

My friend and I used to get rolls of pennies, dimes, nickels, quarters, ect. from the bank when I was a kid. I managed to get a complete set of modern lincoln memorials, post-64 roosies, jeffersons, 80% complete set of washington quarters, and 70% complete set of the wheaties. We also liked to search for errors. The only errors we knew were the ones in the redbook we had, so we had a good handful of what we thought were DDOs and DDRs because we kept damn near everything that had those thin double-lines at the rims or anything that looked abnormal.

UncleWiggly

I found 51 pennies!


Jerry

au58

I once found a very well worn seated half dollar in a roll (early 1960's). Quite a surprise, but not as surprising as this:

While in the Navy, I was sent to Damage Control School in Philadelphia. For lunch, we ate at the brig.
The guy next to me bit into a peach. There was no pit in the middle of the peach. The entire inside had (apparently) been consumed by the LARGEST ANT I have ever seen. It was nearly one and a half inches long!!!

cdwegner

<< <i>I once found a very well worn seated half dollar in a roll (early 1960's). Quite a surprise, but not as surprising as this:

While in the Navy, I was sent to Damage Control School in Philadelphia. For lunch, we ate at the brig.
The guy next to me bit into a peach. There was no pit in the middle of the peach. The entire inside had (apparently) been consumed by the LARGEST ANT I have ever seen. It was nearly one and a half inches long!!! >>



nasty!