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How About These Given In Change!!! (1/2 Cent & 2C)

LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
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image My Son-In-Law got these in change from a clerk at a 7-11 in Virginia Beach, Virginia

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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Someone doing there what Russ has been doing in the Seattle area? image

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • CoppernicusCoppernicus Posts: 1,764 ✭
    I would probably say "BS" to this story, if I hadn't had a similar experience.

    When I was 12 (1965), I bought a soda at an old fashioned soda counter at the local pharmacy. I got three RD IHC's in change and I asked the guy behind the counter if there were any more in the drawer. He said yeah and I bought about 35 more for one cent each! Some kid raided his dad's collection for a milkshake!

    I still have a few of them, all raw.

    Nice find LeeG!!!!!!!

    Mike
    Coppernicus

    Lincoln Wheats (1909 - 1958) Basic Set - Always Interested in Upgrading!
  • HedgerHedger Posts: 1,238
    This happened to me as well when I ran the cash register at my mom's store. I found a bunch of Buffalo nickels in the till and found out where they came from when the kid's father came into the store looking for them. Another great find I had was when a Coke vending machine spat out a nice VF 1932 S quarter in change when I worked at a Benz dealer.
  • CoppernicusCoppernicus Posts: 1,764 ✭
    Hedger - A 32-S in VF..................YOU SUCK!!!!!!image

    Mike
    Coppernicus

    Lincoln Wheats (1909 - 1958) Basic Set - Always Interested in Upgrading!
  • lincolnslincolns Posts: 29 ✭✭
    I got a 1928-C $5 Red seal when I was about 12 while collecting for my paper route. Still have it! Met a gal that was working in the Burger King north of Sioux City and she pulled a 26-s Lincoln VF out of the till. I ask to see her fing and was amazed that things like this can still be found although few and far between.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Incredible!

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    He got them in change? As what? Did the cashier think they were brown quarters or something?
  • Coinhusker1Coinhusker1 Posts: 3,560 ✭
    He probably got shortchanged a half cent!! image
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭


    << <i>He probably got shortchanged a half cent!! image >>




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  • mercurynutmercurynut Posts: 3,207
    Thats awesome! image
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "...aaand two and a half cents is your change, have a nice day!"

    He should go back and shop there some more!

    have him buy something that costs one dollar, pay with a five dollar bill,
    and ask if he can have a 4 dollar coin in change image

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • WACoinGuyWACoinGuy Posts: 1,110


    << <i>He got them in change? As what? Did the cashier think they were brown quarters or something? >>



    My thoughts exactly -- it's not like these coins don't have the denomination in big letters or something...
  • meos1meos1 Posts: 1,135 ✭
    2 center is cool and its my 100 year birth year!


    Dan
    I am just throwing cheese to the rats chewing on the chains of my sanity!

    First Place Winner of the 2005 Rampage design contest!
  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very Cool! image

    Where did you say that store was located?? image

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    That Two Cent Piece looks familiar. image

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    Wondering what the clerk thought they were when giving him his change is a good point. What about the clerk who originally took them as payment? I salt my registers with unc wheats with carbon spots.
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    It's always some kid that raided dad's stuff.
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭
    Amazing! Absolutely amazing!

    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It's always some kid that raided dad's stuff. >>

    I'll remember that if I get a 1931 Saint in change when I break a fifty.

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