Every so often

ChrisH821

Do you ever get a coin in change and wonder where it has been hiding out during the last few or several decades? Happened to me at the local bowling alley, went to get a soda and got this roll fresh 1963 Lincoln back in change. Post your unusually high grade change finds in here, I feel like this could be interesting.

bolivarshagnasty

Nothing like that in the last 15 years. Congrats.

AUandAG

Your soda machine gave a cent in change? 99 cent soda??



wow,

bob

cladking

As the quality of these change finds increases there is a suggestion that nearly 90% of the original number of coins set aside in those days is now gone. It looks like most of the lower quality coins are gone.



There are still a couple million of these but most will look like junk and the rest will look as nice as this one.

mustangmanbob

I turned loose about 200 - 300 +/- 1959 to 1965 BU cents. The collie puppies had found the rolls, torn them open. I held them for awhile, then decided it was not worth the effort to sort them, reroll them, and then have ?? quasi-BU with collie puppy spit coins.

It took a couple weeks, but I used them up.

For example, Home Depot, plopped them in the machine, Grocery Store, plopped them in the machine.

No coin star.

Jackthecat1

I found a proof 1963 nickel on the ground a few weeks ago. It was a bit chipped up, but obviously a proof. I used it for show-and-tell at the coin club meeting then returned it to the wild.

ChrisH821

Originally posted by: AUandAG

Your soda machine gave a cent in change? 99 cent soda??



wow,

bob

Snack bar.

lordmarcovan

Wow. 53 years old, and full Red BU. Cool find.



I do periodically find some in change from as far back as the early 1970s in BU, but not that Gemmy.

ricko

I received a 1974 S Jefferson...bright and shiny... and FS.... but the reverse field, over Monticello,

has a fine, buffed area, almost like an eraser rub.... ruined the coin completely... Cheers, RickO

johnny9434

every once and a while i get one from around that era and its appreciated to see it.

mannie gray

I see a nice BU 1964-D nickel every once in a while.

I can remember in the early to mid 1970's I would see more 64-D "unc" nickels than coins from the 1970's.

Not too long ago I got a nice unc. 1960-D small date that also turned out to be a decent RPM.

Sold it for three bucks, not a bad rate of return.

If only I could do that a couple of hundred times a day.......