Found in change!

DBSTrader2

These days, I deal mostly with the charge card, and I don't get out much otherwise to get much change. On occasion, I might pick up a couple rolls to search thru, but that hasn't brought any rewards in a while. So it's been quite a while since I've found anything in change............

My wife teaches & they sell candy at break time to raise funds. She brings home the $ to put thru a coin machine & then uses the money (now all in bill form) to buy more candy to replenish the supply. I quickly check thru the $ before it heads to the change machine. Usually I might find maybe just 1 coin or date I need to keep my collection up-to-date, but this time, along with a shiny Glacier quarter & 2011-D nickel, I found my first silver in quite a long time, in the form of a 1944-D War Nickel!

So there still ARE some neat finds lurking out there!

- - Dave

ricko

No doubt...this year I have found three war nickels, a mercury dime and seven wheat cents. Cheers, RickO

LowBudget

got a 1931 Lincoln last week....first wheatie in ages!

RunnersDad

Nice Find! I work at a running store but as with most retailers we deal mostly in credit/debit. That being said last Sunday I found a silver Roosie in the register! Made my day, that's for sure.

SaorAlba

Yeah - those '44-Ds are a good find - I find enough P and S in my roll searches, but Ds are a scarce bunch for any of the silver years. I have yet to find a '42-D still.

ClosedLoop

I look everyday and I find pre '82 cents are becoming a little more scarce....

BTW nice find

oildvr

I usually find one or two war nickels a month where I work part time as a cashier. Last week I found my first silver dime-1964. There are still a lot of those nickels out there, since I find them quite frequently.

itsnotjustme

Nice find.... but please tell me you are not reffering to a coin star machine. They lose part of their money.

JamesMurray

Our local store always has the halloween candy at half price or less days after , i buy enough to fill a sizeable box to send home to Scotland and on this occasion found when i got home i'd been charged the full price. Of course i went back and checked the aisle and prices before to be sure i was right.
The first girl looked at me like i spoke swahili , she went and got a 2nd girl who shrugged and took on a glazed look , the first girl goes to get a 3rd girl and they all go check the aisle and prices , then all 3 go to speak to a manager who looked all of 18 years old who then went to check the price yet again and go upstairs for a key to over ride the till. Frustrating..yes..

I chucked my change down as always in neat little stacks to check later as usual



My eyes always go to the edges ...woo hooo , so i guess essentially the store paid me to take the candy , its how i'll like to see it : )

silverpop

if you look hard enough you will find neat coins in change

this minor die cracked penny is one of my current change finds

fiveNdime

my dad was back east (live on the west coast) and i had him pick up 10 rolls of pennies, to fills some holes.
only 2 holes left now

the first roll yielded 8 wheats!
i should have stopped there, as there were none in any other rolls.

i did find a few minor errors too.

DBSTrader2

Unfortunately, with my eyesight deteriorating as it is, I'm lucky enough just to find silver or wheaties or dates I need......there's no way I could start looking for varieties or die errors, etc.............

My latest find was out of just 2 rolls of nickels I requested from a bank teller where I was depositing a check.... they weren't PURE rolls, but instead had about 35 out of 40 coins in each (separated by older dates) being mirror-like 2011-P's. Like they were fresh out from the Mint! I guess they were from bags at one of the companies that re-roll coins, which is how they ended up packaged that way, but I'd never seen coins out in rolls/circulation look so pristine!

- - Dave

golfer72

<< <i>Yeah - those '44-Ds are a good find - I find enough P and S in my roll searches, but Ds are a scarce bunch for any of the silver years. I have yet to find a '42-D still. >>

Interesting! As a matter of fact I got a 44-D last week at the supermarket!

SaorAlba

Last week I retired a grand total of 16 silver coins from circulation, two halves both 1968s, 9 dimes from 1947-1964, and four silver war nickels. Then there was the 1960 Canadian 10c coin too. The halves were just from asking for rolls, the dimes were a bag of $900 worth that one of my banks had, and the war nickels were from nickel box searches - searched $400 last week.

comma

I found a 1907 Indian head cent in change a few weeks ago. And a standing lib. quarter about a year ago

johnny9434

i got 2 wheats from the coffee shop last week. one was a 1944 and the other was a 41. no complaints here about that

DBSTrader2

I miss (not really) my good ol' days as a retail manager, when counting the change drawers & getting rolls, etc from banks would yield silver coins, war nickels, wheaties, star notes, & silver certificates on a steady basis..... Born too late to get in on the silver-dollar-at-face craze, unfortunately......

frnklnlvr

<< <i>Yeah - those '44-Ds are a good find - I find enough P and S in my roll searches, but Ds are a scarce bunch for any of the silver years. I have yet to find a '42-D still. >>



The '42-D wasn't silver.

1040taxman

I have recently found within the last few months a 1918 cent (probably AU50-53) in a car wash;and have received two 1964 Washington quarters (probably AU-53) in change.
The 1918 must have been taken from somebody's collection.
There's no way you would find something like that in a car wash of all places.

TOM