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finding proof coins in the wild.
ckrakowski
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has any body found a proof coin in the wild? if so lets hear the story or see the pics. could be from change from coin counter from friend/family even on the ground. mine is i got 2 proof nickels from an auto parts store. 1 was from 1971 and the other was from 1991.
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crappy pix produced a coin that landed in a pr65 holder
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pictures have already been taken down, though.
I've found several cu-ni clad half dollar proofs, almost all were beat to death.
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on the strike. So I put it away in a box with a few hundred other coins. 4 years later when taking inventory I found the coin again and said "this is a proof". Then I checked my notes and did more research. It turns out the 1889
proofs, some of them were weakly struck. Finally I did an edge reed count, which proved it was a proof (proof strikes in some years have a unique count). ANACS agreed and I sold it last year.
Here are the photos. PR58 "Damaged" ANACS
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Eric
Good spot!
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And January of last year I spied a proof in the nickel till at Walgreens. Asked the lady for all of her "really shiny nickels":
I've gotten another 3 or 4 over the years.
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<< <i>I release proofs into the wild all the time!! >>
from the one who found most of a 39' proof set sitting in the wild at a pawn shop....i know you didn't release those ones...just the owner of tha booty on tha way cheap....remember your 39' mint set...i do
<< <i>I had to spend a proof quarter in a parking meter last week. Bummer >>
dang that sucks. sorry.
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<< <i>I release proofs into the wild all the time!! >>
from the one who found most of a 39' proof set sitting in the wild at a pawn shop....i know you didn't release those ones...just the owner of tha booty on tha way cheap....remember your 39' mint set...i do >>
Me too!! I also remember the 1893-S Morgan he got for $8 and darn near wrecked his car when he turned the coin over and saw the "s". Say, didn't it grade VF30 or something like that, Marty???
But I have ceased doing that in favor of putting them in 2 x 2's and giving them away to YN's at shows. After all, who is going to take care of all my cameo stuff (buy it) once I go to the big bourse in the sky?
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It looked PF65 or better when I got it but now it's a pocket piece. Had it about
two months now. 1971-s, sorry about the crappy pics.
bob
<< <i>NOT a Pr with a strike like that? Wow. >>
I bought that 1889 Morgan, although I no longer own it. I don't know how anyone could have denied it was a proof.
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It was from a bank. I was just going around asking tellers for Ikes so a friend of mine and I could fill up a Dansco.
<< <i>These and a few more, bank roll finds, semi-wild.
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<< <i>Unless there is bullion value, why would anyone bother to keep a proof coin out of circulaton? Just not sure what the attraction would be?! >>
for me it is because it was a coin never meant to be in circulation in the first place.
<< <i>Unless there is bullion value, why would anyone bother to keep a proof coin out of circulaton? Just not sure what the attraction would be?! >>
For me it was flipping a $10 roll for $30.
<< <i>more please. >>
Bought raw on eBay as MS63RB for $39.......submitted to PCGS............
Graded PR62RB.....a pleasant surprise for sure.
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<< <i>NOT a Pr with a strike like that? Wow. >>
I bought that 1889 Morgan, although I no longer own it. I don't know how anyone could have denied it was a proof. >>
I looked again, and I don't know either. As Andy would say, it has the fabric of a Proof coin!
Eric
I've found a lot of proofs while searching rolls.
This 2006-S 5c is the only proof I've got in change.
When I got it my change was $2.05 and they gave me a $2 bill and this, I asked if they had any other odd change but that was it. I figured someone spent some stuff from a collection.
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<< <i>I've found a lot of proofs while searching rolls.
This 2006-S 5c is the only proof I've got in change.
When I got it my change was $2.05 and they gave me a $2 bill and this, I asked if they had any other odd change but that was it. I figured someone spent some stuff from a collection.
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i love it.
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