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A Very Special Coin to Me with Lots of Character... Found at Recess Years Ago, Jeff with a Cud

airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,520 ✭✭✭✭✭
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This is one of the most valuable coins in my collection. Sure, it's worth only a few dollars, but I found it in either third or fourth grade (can't remember) at recess. it was embedded in the dirt with just the face visable (all the rims were in the ground). It was just beneath one of the two blue benches just before the small hill that led to the fields. I saw the coin, brushed off the dirt, and immediately saw the cud. As was the only way to store it (I had no pockets), I put the coin in my sock, and took it out when I got home (it's not a biohazard any more, I promise).

Anyway, I only just photographed it for this first time. But when I pulled it out on the weekend, I noticed a massive reverse clash for the first time. You can see the portrait of Jefferson on both sides of the dome, although they are much stronger in person due to lighting angles. After owning the coin for about a decade, I only just noticed that, as I always paid attention to the cud.

Needless to say, it's a very, very special coin to me. I hope you like it image

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Jeremy
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  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    Neat double whammy. Thanks for sharing...Mike
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  • coinnut86coinnut86 Posts: 1,592 ✭✭✭
    Kick Butt Jeremy! That is an awesome story and way cool find image
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  • ajiaajia Posts: 5,403 ✭✭✭
    ".....I found it in either third or fourth grade (can't remember) at recess"
    And the coin is an '84!
    Sure know how to make a guy feel old! image

    Great story, that's probably the most 'priceless' coin you'll ever own.
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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,520 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>".....I found it in either third or fourth grade (can't remember) at recess"
    And the coin is an '84!
    Sure know how to make a guy feel old! image

    Great story, that's probably the most 'priceless' coin you'll ever own. >>

    Actually, it's a 1982... but I was born in 1987... guess I found this around 1996/97.
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  • Bailey1977Bailey1977 Posts: 381
    Cool story & awesome find!
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  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    Excellent! Thanks for sharing!

    They didn't have a lost & found at your school? image

    Ken
  • HootHoot Posts: 867 ✭
    Jeremy - That's a great story, a fantastic find, and a super memory to carry with you and re-tell many times. Thanks!

    Hoot
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  • CoindexterCoindexter Posts: 1,074
    This is how collectors are made. Thanks for sharing.
  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,323 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Neat story Jeremy...now get back to studying!! image

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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    thanks for sharing that jeremy, very cool old find image
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  • Wolf359Wolf359 Posts: 7,665 ✭✭✭
    Great story. Nice cud too!
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Nice cud. Great story.
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  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    That's great, Jeremy.
    You keep your eyes peeled when you go out on your recesses in this new school you're in now, too.
    No doubt you'll find something here too.

    Ray
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    very cool!

    were you a coin collector before finding this piece or did this start your interest?

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  • jdsinvajdsinva Posts: 1,508 ✭
    I was going to say that the reverse is clashed at the top of Monticello but I see you covered that. . .cool coin!
    Jeff

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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I like it!

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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,520 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>very cool!

    were you a coin collector before finding this piece or did this start your interest? >>

    I was just starting my collecting... I had a few pieces, but very, very little. Back then, I could barely afford anything on an allowance of a few dollars a month. Something makes me think it was still $1 or $2 per week.

    Jeremy
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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    Ahhh, a collector at heart.imageimage
  • PeacemanPeaceman Posts: 5,098
    Neat... my most "expensive" coins are coins without any value that my grandfather handed to me.... So did THAT coin get you started?
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,520 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Neat... my most "expensive" coins are coins without any value that my grandfather handed to me.... So did THAT coin get you started? >>

    'twas a Littleton ad I saw in third grade... got a merc and a walker for $4.95. That started me image
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  • MarineEAS1999MarineEAS1999 Posts: 327
    I saw your nickel and had deja vu. I dug through my coins and found a 1983-P nickel that I got in the middle 80's. Its my only CUD and its your Jefferson's younger twin. Is this a common error?

    Not a great pic, but I'm working on it.

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    Ken

    My first post...updated with pics

    I collect mostly moderns and I'm currently working on a US type set.

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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,520 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I saw your nickel and had deja vu. I dug through my coins and found a 1983-P nickel that I got in the middle 80's. Its my only CUD and its your Jefferson's younger twin. Is this a common error?

    Not a great pic, but I'm working on it.

    image >>

    I don't think cuds are really that common... my understanding is that they start as a die crack near the rim of the coin, and then the chunk of the die between the crack and rim breaks off completely... thus a large, unstruck mound of metal.

    Jeremy
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  • Smitty79Smitty79 Posts: 1,313
    That's is cool, Jeremy. I still have this '43 steel cent that I found on the ground about 10-15 years ago, long before I became an active collector. image

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