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WINNER! BEST "WILD CARD" FIND, FEBRUARY, 2008

lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
Best Wild Card Find for February?

Total Votes: 30


Kevinstang's 1999 "Wide AM" Lincoln cent found during roll searching, sold on eBay for over $200
6 (votes) 20.00 (%)
Savoyspecial's 1942 Mercury dime found in change
5 (votes) 16.67 (%)
Savoyspecial's 12-coin hoard found in the public trash can at a bank
4 (votes) 13.33 (%)
Millennium's 1936 S/S Buffalo nickel with repunched mintmark
11 (votes) 36.67 (%)
Dockwalliper's Disney cast member pin, found in a CoinStar return (listed as "rare" on one collector site)
1 (votes) 3.33 (%)
ASUTodd's wild turkey feathers





Our winner is Millennium! image




Kevinstang's 1999 "Wide AM" Lincoln cent found during roll searching, sold on eBay for over $200.

(I'm a little confused by the pictures he posted. They appear to be pictures of a 50-roll box and not of an individual coin, yet his text sounds like he was describing a single coin. The pics were rather large, too, so I did not repost them here, but you can go back to the entry thread to see them.


<< <i>This is at least my 5th if not 6th (can't remember) 1999 wide AM lincoln, its also the nicest I have found. Hope I am off to the same hot streak I had last spring when I found three of them in a little over a month starting in February as well. Edited to add: It sold on ebay for just over $200 !
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Savoyspecial's 1942 Mercury dime found in change.
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Savoyspecial's 12-coin hoard found in the public trash can at a bank.
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his story about the finds




Millennium's 1936 S/S Buffalo nickel with a repunched mintmark.
Found in a roll of common Buffalo nickels, valued at around 25-50 dollars.
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Dockwalliper's Disney cast member pin, found in a CoinStar return (listed as "rare" on one collector site).
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ASUTodd's wild turkey feathers.
(He also got some nice photos of the turkeys themselves, which will be in our brand-new "Best Expedition Photo" category.)
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Comments

  • Great "wild card" finds this month. I had to go with Millennium's repunched mintmark coin. On top of that, it's a Buff one as well. I'm pretty sure that they were fairly common on the buff's as a series, but it's still special finding one.

    Congrats all!!!!!
    Speer34

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  • kevinstangkevinstang Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭


    << <i>(Note: I'm putting up these polls from work, and the server here will not let me see anybody's Photobucket/Fotki/Myspace-hosted images, so I'm flying a little bit blind between the rows of red-Xes. My apologies in advance if any of the pictures get put up in crazy sequence or get posted wrong.)




    Kevinstang's 1999 "Wide AM" Lincoln cent found during roll searching, sold on eBay for over $200.

    (I'm a little confused by the pictures he posted. They appear to be pictures of a 50-roll box and not of an individual coin, yet his text sounds like he was describing a single coin. The pics were rather large, too, so I did not repost them here, but you can go back to the entry thread to see them.


    << <i>This is at least my 5th if not 6th (can't remember) 1999 wide AM lincoln, its also the nicest I have found. Hope I am off to the same hot streak I had last spring when I found three of them in a little over a month starting in February as well. Edited to add: It sold on ebay for just over $200 !
    >>







    Savoyspecial's 1942 Mercury dime found in change.
    image
    image

    Savoyspecial's 12-coin hoard found in the public trash can at a bank.
    image

    his story about the finds




    Millennium's 1936 S/S Buffalo nickel with a repunched mintmark.
    Found in a roll of common Buffalo nickels, valued at around 25-50 dollars.
    image




    Dockwalliper's Disney cast member pin, found in a CoinStar return (listed as "rare" on one collector site).
    image




    ASUTodd's wild turkey feathers.
    (He also got some nice photos of the turkeys themselves, which will be in our brand-new "Best Expedition Photo" category.)
    image


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    Oops, sorry about that, must have double used the file name, here is the picture of actual coin:

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Millennium was our winner!

    Congratulations, Steve! image


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  • Thanks guys......lot's of good finds this last month...good luck next month!
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations Millenium... Cheers, RickO
  • nice going...hh
    "see ya at the beach"
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  • Congrats millennium!
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  • Congrats Millennium.
    Speer34

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