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

GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
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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 image
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  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424 ✭
    A 1851 $50 Humbert slug. Not the most expensive coin but it's my favorite design of all time image
    Want to buy an auction catalog for the William Hesslein Sale (December 2, 1926). Thanks to all those who have helped us obtain the others!!!

  • jhusmanjhusman Posts: 1,082 ✭
    I'd like to find a nice UNC colonial copper.

    Taht would be awesome.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,834 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A Judd 1776 pattern gold double eagle with the Indian head / flying eagle design.

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  • coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭
    A 1964 Peace Dollar =P
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  • DabigkahunaDabigkahuna Posts: 3,419


    I would go for an 1873-CC No Arrows Dime. Any condition would be nice!

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  • SFDukieSFDukie Posts: 618 ✭
    An immaculate fugio.
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    How about a brand new 1796 half dollar? Never spent and protected from the elements (mostly) for 210 years.
  • coltguscoltgus Posts: 337 ✭
    1870-S $3 .
    I'd rather be lucky than good.
  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,553 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I would go for an 1873-CC No Arrows Dime. Any condition would be nice! >>


    image or an 1870-S half dime, or an 1870-S $3 gold, or an 1849 double eagle, or even an 1870-S quarter. Any condition. image

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  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭
    A gem unc, "fully struck," New Jersey M. 69-w copper. It's gotta be weird even new.
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  • DarkmaneDarkmane Posts: 1,021 ✭
    Gem Unc 1794 silver $1

    Qualifications for my miraculous find:

    1. It was meant to have circulated.
    2. 18th century.
    3. First of its denomination.
  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭


    << <i>I would go for an 1873-CC No Arrows Dime. Any condition would be nice!

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    Larry
    Dabigkahuna
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    Ditto.
  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    1933 Double Eagle image

    He didn't say it needs to be from the late 1700's or early 1800's.
  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭
    a gem 1909 VDB Matte Proof Lincoln.

    -Paul
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  • PinnacleRaritiesPinnacleRarities Posts: 172
    A nice BU red chain cent, or a BU Silver Continental Dollar, or how about a Proof-like rainbow toned 1794 Flowing Hair Dollar. or ....
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    What I'd like to find is probably a lot different from what I would most likely find.
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  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    An Extremely High Relief $20. But I'm happy with anything worth more than face.
  • jobiwan115jobiwan115 Posts: 769
    1895-S Morgan dollar! image
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  • jpo1965jpo1965 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭
    1889-cc ms-69 dmpl image
    Old coins
  • SilverEagles92SilverEagles92 Posts: 6,787 ✭
    1792 half disme
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  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm with SilverEagles92. It would have to be the 1792 half disme. Stranger things have happened.
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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My folks' farmhouse was built in Ohio in 1849... I'll hope for something cool like a feuchtwanger three cent piece.
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  • DJCoinzDJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭
    If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer to find a lost mint bag of 1895 business strike morgans. image
    aka Dan
  • JeremyDie1JeremyDie1 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭
    A high grade 1794 flowing hair dollarimage
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    1854-S liberty half eagle or the 1875-P liberty half eagle
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 23,245 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    I always wanted a Gloucester token.

    And it would be great if it happened to be a silver shilling instead of the known brass prototype.
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  • drddmdrddm Posts: 5,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A Gem BU 1893-S Morgan
  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    Edge lettered Sac
    Pilgrim Clock and Gift Shop.. Expert clock repair since 1844

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  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    image
  • dogwooddogwood Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭✭
    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.
    We're all born MS70. I'm about a Fine 15 right now.
  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wouldn't mind pulling up a floor board and finding a nice chain cent.
    Need a Barber Half with ANACS photo certificate. If you have one for sale please PM me. Current Ebay auctions
  • BigE2BigE2 Posts: 1,037 ✭
    A Mint State 1793 Strawberry Leaf Large Cent. image
  • DJCoinzDJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭


    << <i>image >>


    So you'd like to find a fish? image
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  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1921 morgan in AU.
    MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.
  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <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 image

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,834 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The missing 1849 Liberty double eagle. image

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  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd like a nice brown Unc. 1799 large cent, maybe with a little red left in the lettering, to complete my date set.
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,246 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1792 Half Disme
  • GeomanGeoman Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭
    I would have to say an 1894-S Dime!!

    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.
  • AlanAllenAlanAllen Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭
    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!
    No such details will spoil my plans...
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭


    << <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 image
  • kwmorgankwmorgan Posts: 967 ✭
    1921 Canadian 50 cent, MS-65.
  • AlanAllenAlanAllen Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <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 image >>



    I don't have a dream coin, I'm a card guy image. My dreams involve a heavy smoking carpenter who got sick of all the little pictures of baseball players that came with his cigarettes, and stashed them in my rafters somewhere.

    Joe
    No such details will spoil my plans...
  • eyoung429eyoung429 Posts: 6,374 ✭
    1913 V-nickel in PF69
    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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  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1873-S Liberty Seated Dollar

    (MS70 First Strike, of course!) image

    My Adolph A. Weinman signature :)

  • jbstevenjbsteven Posts: 6,178 ✭
    ms69 Chain cent
  • hiijackerhiijacker Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭
    I would love to find any coin from any year after 2007. This means someone time-traveled and left me a wonderful momento. This would bring moon money.
    Buyer of all vintage Silver Bars. PM me
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  • MORGANHUNTER2MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭
    A bag of 93-s Morgans toning as nutzo as Braddicks SAE.
  • coinnutcoinnut Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For the past 8 years I have been renovating apartments in a building that was built in 1835. Just today I was ripping up 3 layers of flooring and found two coins. A quarter dated 1988 and a dime dated 1992-D. The oldest coin I have found in the whole building so far is a Lincoln Cent dated 1940. Rare coins indeed!! I'm still on the lookout for a chain cent though.
    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.

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