question for people under 40.

BBN

What's the oldest coin you ever got back as change at the store besides a penny?(unless it was an indian head cent)

sumnom

What's wrong with cents?

I got a 1925 cent in change this past November and used to get a lot of 1940's nickels up to about three or four years ago. They seem to have disappeared. The oldest dime I ever got in change was 1942. The oldest quarter was 1954. I have gotten halves in change but they were always clad stuff. The oldest dollar I have gotten in change was 1979.

I have found buffalo nickels and Indian head cents in rolls but those did not come to me in the form of change.

coppercoins

1938 Jefferson, 1947 Roosevelt, 1935 Washington, 1964 Kennedy.

Oldest cent was 1902, second oldest was 1909VDB.

D

I've found three IHCs, oldest being 1889 I believe. Youngest is 1906. One 1909*No VDB* penny, a 1924 Buffalo Nickel (date readable, terrible wear on the horn) And quarters from 1941-1964, (Almost one from each year, some S mint marks and some D mint marks). No half dollars before 1967, One Mercury Dime, 1944, terrible condition, and that about does it .

PS: I handle nearly 100,000$ a week so I have slightly better odds of finding things .

-Daniel

Bochiman

Recently - 1938 Jefferson Nickel
Long time ago when I was a pre-teen - 1882 IHC (wish I still had it....lost it around high school age time).

NumisOxide

I found in change a buffalo nickel, silver Roosevelt dimes, and Jefferson nickels pre-1964. Mostly WWII nickels. Once I found 2 1943-P Jefferson nicklels together in change.

Spiffy469

My best finds out of change were an 1907 Indian Head Cent and a 1917 Walker

Both were recieved from the same customer when I was working at Dairy Queen in Highschool, about 4 years ago.
I used to get all kinda of old coins there. It was located near the local city pool and I'm thinking that little kids raided daddy's collevtions to buy ice cream.
I ended up with my fair share of circ silver, the occasional silver certificate, or red seal notes. Man... I really miss that part of the job.

OH ya, both the walker and IHC were recieved from the same customer. It was a lady in her 40's, I'll never forget her paying me with them.

Jeff

airplanenut

1940s quarter... actually, the person where I get my hair cut pulled it out and gave it to me She knows I collect

itsnotjustme

1938 Nickel (Jeff)
1946 Dime
195X Quarter
1964 Half
1971 Dollar

(I am 40 though!)

lonelyp

I'm 44'
But I have seen VDBs (not since I was a kid with no thoughts of collecting) merc. dimes very few buffs. but nothing that really stood out. My brother once found a Confedarate $100.00 bill and was told it was trash, at the time. I don't beleive he kept it.

lordmarcovan

1909 plain Lincoln cent, grading Fair to AG. In my Mom's change purse when I was a kid. She had a similar 1912 another time.

I barely fit in the "under 40" set, since I turn 40 this December. The change purse finds were in 1977, when I was 11 1/2 years old. Back then when I was a young collector, it was routine to get two or three Wheaties in a roll from the bank. I can only remember finding silver one or two times, though. I was born the same year as clad coinage was.

If you're not counting Wheat cents, I guess my oldest was a nice 1937-D Buffalo I got out of a Pepsi machine in 1992. (Unless I am forgetting an older Darkside coin that snuck into my change some time).

Smitty79

Haven't had too much luck getting old coins in change but the oldest that I remember getting is a '54 D Jefferson.

PutTogether

if we dont count cents.....(had a few in the teens) then it would have to be a few buffalo nickels.

MrSpud

Oops, I'm over 40. Senile too, responded to the wrong thread...

JrGMan2004

Over about a months time, I was hitting a lot of older Jerrson nickels... I picked up a few late 40s out of change No War Nickels though...

Purple73

1938 Jeffy nickel

nwcs

The oldest non-cent I've ever found was a 1939 nickel I got in a roll of nickels from the bank. Outside of that, the oldest stuff was various 1964 items for silver and a handful of nickels from the early 40s. I saw some earlier items than that but the cashiers gobbled them up before I could. My brother, though, (who is also under 40) once got a mercury dime in change in the early 80s.

bigbadchad777

1942 nickel.

ibzman350

What was the question ???



Herb

darktone

1899 V- nickel. I worked at a small country service station in south central wisconsin in the early 80's and the old farmers alway's had interesting change- The soda machine was alway's good for at least one silver coin each night I worked. By the way I am 40. mike

TheRaven

38 Jefferson
30 Wheatie
64 Dime & Quarter

Do halves come in change?

I recall like 10 years ago having a Buffalo Nickel from change, but I think it got rolled up and sent to the bank, this was before a collector.

mgoodm3

38 jefferson. Got a 1919 cent once.

airplanenut

Oh, I also got a 42-S nickel a few years ago

TheLiberator

I'm 28 and all I have seen are wheat cents and a few silver jeffersons. No IHC's, lib nickels or anything else like that. Just borring old dead presidents!

Betta285

I found my 2nd 1911 wheatie yesterday, thoes being my oldest circ finds.. Where I work I usually see a 30's wheatie weekly and a lot of 40's jeffs, '41 and '46 mostly

jim

Shamika

1915 Buffalo

Hedger

1962 Roosi and the occasional 50's wheatie. Not much else in the last few years down here in NC.

Hedger

Actually, some of my better change finds have come from dollar stores.

weresteve

<< <i>What's the oldest coin you ever got back as change at the store besides a penny?(unless it was an indian head cent) >>



Hmmm ... no IHCs ... oldest wheat cent was a 1910-S in good that is still in my Lincoln cent book. Others ... a few dateless Buffalos, 1930s Jefferson nickels, a few silver war nickels, 1944 Mercury dime, few silver Rosies and Washington Quarters, and some 40% Kennedy Halves.

A couple of years ago at one of the local coin shows a dealer had a bag of low grade circulated Ikes which I purchased and then proceeded to spend just for the heck of it to see the reaction on the clerk's face. Growing up I used to do this regularly with Ikes and then when the SBAs first came out.

Steve

Geod

I'm way over forty, but I feel like I feel younger than forty.

So what was the question?

Oh right.

When I make a peanut and butter sandwich, I use 3 slices of bread. I put the peanut butter on the outside pieces and the jelly on the inside piece of bread. This way the jelly doesn't leak to the outside of the sandwhich and the middle piece of bread absorbes the jelly.

So you "youngsters" should try this. It will help keep your coins from getting peanut butter and jelly on them!


Pertty good advise.

Geod

Longacre

I occasionally get nickels from the 1950's (most recently about a week or two). It's been years since I got a wheat cent, and probably 20+ years since I got a silver coin in change.

BBN

<< <i>Actually, some of my better change finds have come from dollar stores. >>



wonder why that. Think it's because these places are frequented by older ladies and older women seem to use every piece of change when buying. When they buy something that's $2.68 they'll dig in their purse until they come up with a combination of 68 cents instead of giving the store $3

kryptonitecomics

1911 Barber Dime....got it out of a soda machine and I still have it......I'd give it a FR-2....maybe an AG3 at best

Bootleg

1897 O B. dime,from a coinstar change machine last year....also sold it,,,,,

ziggy29

1910 Lincoln, roughly VG-8.

aacoins

A worn buffalo nickel no date to be seen and a few 40's nickels no war nickels yet in change still hoping.