The best change find ever...for me

LotsoLuck · January 6, 2011 12:57PM

I got this back in change today at the local IGA. I mentioned to the cashier that she should check out the change in her drawer and there might be more finds. She gave me that look that all of us coiny's have experienced so asking her to look through the till for me wasnt going to happen.

aj2525r · January 6, 2011 1:02PM

WOW!

LotsoLuck · January 6, 2011 1:07PM

I felt like a little kid driving home, I couldnt wait to get my loupe out and have a look

Swampboy · January 6, 2011 1:08PM

Way cool change find.
I'm stunned.

Have you checked your Cherrypicker's?

jmski52 · January 6, 2011 1:08PM

Dang! And some of the wear is recent! Congrats on a great find!!

LotsoLuck · January 6, 2011 1:11PM

I gotta tell ya, my eyes aint all that great even with the loupe, looks like it might be a closed 3 ?

TheRegulator · January 6, 2011 1:17PM

Holy Hannah!!!

RunnersDad · January 6, 2011 1:18PM

It looks closed to me! What a find man, I can imagine the shot of adrenaline you got realizing what you were just handed in change!!

melvin289 · January 6, 2011 1:18PM

<< I felt like a little kid driving home, I couldnt wait to get my loupe out and have a look

>>

You mean you don't carry it with you?

Ron

LotsoLuck · January 6, 2011 1:21PM

<< 

<< I felt like a little kid driving home, I couldnt wait to get my loupe out and have a look

>>

You mean you don't carry it with you?

Ron

>>

JedPlanchet · January 6, 2011 1:23PM

Awesome find!

SamByrd · January 6, 2011 1:33PM

very cool. Looks like a decent coin. well done.

AnkurJ · January 6, 2011 1:33PM

NICE!!!

GrumpyEd · January 6, 2011 1:34PM

<< Have you checked your Cherrypicker's? >>

Check your CPG, there's a nice RPM and a couple of DDOs to check for along with open/closed 3.
It looks like there's enough of LIBERTY there so if it's one of the DDOs you'll see it there.

Cool find!

rld14 · January 6, 2011 1:39PM

Holy Schnikeys!

LotsoLuck · January 6, 2011 1:39PM

<< 

<< Have you checked your Cherrypicker's? >>

Check your CPG, there's a nice RPM and a couple of DDOs to check for along with open/closed 3.
It looks like there's enough of LIBERTY there so if it's one of the DDOs you'll see it there.

Cool find! >>

I will, thanks.

DRUNNER · January 6, 2011 1:50PM

You got an 1873 "Closed 3" in CHANGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ????????????????

I am not authorized to administer this, and I know I am overcome with enthusiasm, but this might border on the "You Suck" classification. Probably not quite to that level, and far be it from me to suppose I could award such an honor (I can't), but wow . . that is COOL!

Drunner

LotsoLuck · January 6, 2011 2:08PM

Ok, looking at the CPG, The jumbling of the date leads me to believe it is a closed 3. As for doubling on Liberty, hard for me to tell whats going on from the rub, somewhat flat and raw looking. Man...this is cool

Edited to add: A "You Suck" would make my day/week...but I wont grope

tightbudget · January 6, 2011 2:29PM

With a find like that, I would've paid her a couple bucks just to dig through the till. Who knows, there may have been an 1877 in there...

Nice score!

coolest · January 6, 2011 2:48PM

Let me add another WOW!

TexasNationals · January 6, 2011 2:50PM

Holy carp, I wonder what collection that was stolen out of

atarian · January 6, 2011 2:59PM

Looks like a open 3 to me. I have a closed 3 $2.50 to compare it too but 187x anything is kinda cool. Its like the 1881 i pulled out of a box of cents they are around if you look so keep an eye open I think we can all take something away from this great find.

BigE · January 6, 2011 3:08PM

I can see the headline now "Coin Collector Burglarizes Store, Steals 1 Cent"----------BigE

Tdec1000 · January 6, 2011 3:19PM

I can give it out so "you suck" Congrats!!

QuarterCollector · January 6, 2011 3:35PM

Great find. It's nice to know that we can still find some classics in circulation.

kurtdog · January 6, 2011 9:51PM

<< And some of the wear is recent! >>

That's a good point. Great find!

DuCrozat · January 6, 2011 9:58PM

<< I ...I mentioned to the cashier that she should check out the change in her drawer and there might be more finds. She gave me that look that all of us coiny's have experienced ... >>

Apathy is rampant in our society. That's why it probably was spent in the first place. The rest are probably in a Coinstar.

ricko · January 6, 2011 9:58PM

Amazing... super find.... would make my day for sure. Heck, make my month. Cheers, RickO

BillyKingsley · January 6, 2011 10:00PM

Nice find! That now beats the record of oldest coin I've seen found in circulation since I began in 2008. The previous record was an 1875 dime that looked to me like an MD find, and was posted on CoinTalk last year.

The oldest I've found personally was a 1912 cent.

I am convinced most people don't look at their change.

baddogss · January 6, 2011 10:04PM

That is a very nice find,. Good for you! I always look, latest find was a 42 dime in December & 1950 quarter in November.

DuCrozat · January 6, 2011 10:09PM

I should have congratulated you in my cynical post.

Congrats!

Swampboy · January 7, 2011 12:36AM

Here's a perspective on a change find Indian cent.
Back in 7-8th grade (late 50s) I feverishly sorted through all the change I got collecting on my newspaper route.
It wasn't until a friend of mine, another paper boy, showed me a few indian cents he had in his coin collection that I ever even saw one.

I'd be interested to learn when they 'stopped' circulating (OP's experience excepted) early 50s - 40s?

kurtdog · January 7, 2011 1:52AM

Swampboy, you can still find IHCs in bank rolls. The earliest one we've found was an 1865. It looked like it's been through a civil war, but, it was at least a find. I don't know if that means they're still circulating, though, as they could otherwise come from redemptions of collections. In 3 years, though, we found about 6 to 8 of these, can't remember the exact amount...

Tdec1000 · January 7, 2011 2:16AM

kurtdog, I have taken junk indians and buffalo nickels and salted my big coin jug with them and then turned them in. I think this is how some youngsters have gotten into collecting.

kurtdog · January 7, 2011 2:42AM

Tdec1000, I'll thank you and others like you for that generous attitude. Finding IHCs clearly lit the fire under my YN. Years ago, when I used to go through 5000-count bags, I had quickly got into the habit of redeeming most of the 50s and 40s, even many of the earlier dates, too, I wasn't keeping. It just didn't make sense to try to sell the darn things, and, besides that, made me feel good.