If you could find one coin tucked away in your floorboards...

What would it be? Let's just say you have a house dating back to the late 1700's. If you found an old coin tucked away under the floorboards, what would it be?
Although it's not a coin, I would love to find the "Eureka Bar" from the SS Central America in my floorboards
Although it's not a coin, I would love to find the "Eureka Bar" from the SS Central America in my floorboards

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Taht would be awesome.
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I would go for an 1873-CC No Arrows Dime. Any condition would be nice!
Larry
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<< <i>I would go for an 1873-CC No Arrows Dime. Any condition would be nice! >>
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Qualifications for my miraculous find:
1. It was meant to have circulated.
2. 18th century.
3. First of its denomination.
<< <i>I would go for an 1873-CC No Arrows Dime. Any condition would be nice!
Larry
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Ditto.
He didn't say it needs to be from the late 1700's or early 1800's.
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I knew it would happen.
And it would be great if it happened to be a silver shilling instead of the known brass prototype.
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So you'd like to find a fish?
<< <i>I'm going to be totally realistic... as my house was built in 1915 and it is in San Jose, I'd say there is a chance that some framer (solid old growth redwood timbers, nary a split, termite or spot of dry rot) could have dropped a 1913-s Barber Quarter in AU in the dust and there it sits to this day. But spiders and asbestos freak me out so I'm not going down there to look for it any time soon. >>
I'm with Dogwood ... for the realism part. Considering when my house was built and where I live, probably the best I could hope for is some late twenties to mid fourties S mints.
That 27-S quarter sure would be nice
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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This is my dream coin, I would much rather own one of these than the 1913 Liberty Nickel or the 1933 Double Eagle. Can't believe no one else would want this coin.
1960 quarter!
<< <i>This actually happened to me last week. I'm renovating my house, which was built in 1913. We've stripped the floor to the floorboards, and were working underneath one of them to clean out the furnace intake. My wife found, covered in grime and barely recognizable, a....
1960 quarter! >>
I hope that wasn't your dream coin
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<< <i>This actually happened to me last week. I'm renovating my house, which was built in 1913. We've stripped the floor to the floorboards, and were working underneath one of them to clean out the furnace intake. My wife found, covered in grime and barely recognizable, a....
1960 quarter! >>
I hope that wasn't your dream coin
I don't have a dream coin, I'm a card guy
Joe
1893-S Morgan in MS68 or better
Both of them hiding a 1793 Flowing Hair Chain Cent in MS67 or better!!!
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1873-S Liberty Seated Dollar
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The oldest coin that I have found in any of my buildings is an 1886 Indian Head Cent. It was barely recognizable, having spent too much time in wet, musty cellar.