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Drop your best or favorite crh find
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No. I don't drop coins.
Omg lol
Not sure I would say it is my best, but I was REALLY happy when I found this EDS 1955 Lincoln DDO-2
While not as eye popping as it's famous brother, this is one really strong DDO that is much rarer than the Die-1 biggie.
Exponentially rarer.
I found 16 or 19 don't remember now been a bit 1960-D/D S/L date cent once in a unc roll, That was fun. I have bags with roll's that have some D/D in them I opened two roll's and saw that so I know the other roll's are the same way it was a sealed bag I think the date was 1959-D.
Hoard the keys.
That is a great find!
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb, Ricko
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Though I have searched many, many rolls of half dollars.... I have found only one notable coin... a 1941 WLH...about XF40..... a stranger in a roll of Kennedy's.....and no silver Kennedy's. Cheers, RickO
Roll searching as a boy, I found a bank that would occasionally gave me full shotgun cent rolls of circulated dates. 1940-S & 1942-S. Over a period of months, I would go back and obtain more if lucky. Still have the rolls. They were a financial gut punch for me, as they would clean me out of my roll searching funds (typically two to four rolls). I would be 'out of the game' for a time.
2016 nickel struck over a 2015 nickel, found in a roll of new 2016 coins.
My best find would have to be found when I was roll hunting halves. I came across a G/VG Barber half! I dont remember the date, but it was a 20th century coin.
5 rolls of 1943 Steelies. Someone had turned in a micro hoard.
Awesome Coin !!!
I would love to add that raw treasure to my error coin collection.
Please let me know if you decide to part with it ?
Do you have an image of the other side ?
Awesome Find !!!
Lindy
One full roll of circulated buffs along with some rolls of mixed Jeffs/buffs.
Thx for the interest but I don't ever anticipate selling it. It is probably my most valuable coin and it only cost me 5 cents. It is now in NGC plastic. The value is in the error, of course, but I was surprised that it graded MS66 with all the dings.
When I first broke open the roll I noticed it because it was black with grease. I wiped some of it off and saw what I thought was a shallow struck through over the dome. I decided it was too insignificant to keep so I went to throw it on the pile but as I did I flipped it over and saw the obverse. People here on the forum confirmed what it was for me.
Click on this link to see my ebay listings.
@jbk thanks for sharing that nickel, I never saw one like that before
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb, Ricko
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
How recent ??? I searched rolls in the 1960's. Evan though I found a few Indian cents, and numerous teens and twenties wheats, my fav is is still a 1924 D cent in AG. Still have it in my capitol board.
WS
back in 2007 when the presidential dollars first came out I bought a whole box to look for the ones missing the edge lettering. I found several hundred and picked out the best 3 to send off to get graded. Sold the rest on ebay pretty quickly before the prices crashed.
When I was in grade school in the 1990s, I would search through boxes of half dollars to pull out the silver. Found quite a bit doing that. I also would go through 1,000 note bags of $1 and $2 bills looking for neat ones. This was back when you could still find a lot of the $1 web notes in circulations. Found a few B-L block notes which are pricey and in the $2 bills picked out a bunch of 1928 series notes. Even found a low serial number 1976 star note.
I miss those days!
I recently found eight proof Kennedys in a bank-wrapped roll of halves. That's the best in years. Best all time was in ~1989 when I was working as a teller at Wells Fargo Bank while attending UCLA. An older woman deposited a bunch of coin rolls and four of the dime rolls felt a bit heavy as I was putting them in my teller drawer... all four rolls were solid silver Roosies, and several of the quarter rolls she deposited had partial silver Washingtons. Needless to say I set those aside and bought them out of my drawer at the end of my shift. Still have them as part of my Strategic Silver Reserve (i.e., hoard/stash).
Found this searching Kennedy rolls. If I remember correctly, I believe there were also a couple of silver Kennedy's in the same roll.
Many years ago my Mom worked with a lady who had lived in Denver during WW II and had five rolls of Mint State Mercury dimes, all D-mints of various years. I bought them from her for silver melt (this would have been around 1978 before the silver markets got crazy) and pulled out a Mint State 63/64 1942/1-D. I sold it for several hundred dollars to a dealer as that was a great deal of money to me back then.
Kind regards,
George
My two best were posted above, my worst is a 191x-S holed lincoln
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb, Ricko
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
I was VERY heavy back in 2007-2011. I found a couple silver commem halves - I think a Booker Washington circ, couple Canadian silver halves, and enough silver to cover the purchase of my 1909-s VDB in PCGS MS63RB.
I used to have a picture, I think about 20 rolls of 40%, and maybe 10 of 90%? Majority in halves, I never touched quarters or nickels.
Put together a Kennedy set with circ proofs, and about 3 business strike sets. Also found some interesting post silver Kennedy halves like some crazy toners, magician coins, etc etc.
I also pull interesting currency but one time got about $400 in 1950s series $10s and $20s that were all great.
I've posted this before but I do like remembering this day. I made a stop at a bank one day during my lunch break and asked for any half dollars...I bought all they had and opened what looked like the oldest roll and was skunked , the next roll was solid silver. What followed was unbelievable!
Dropped.
Searched $4000 in bagged Ike $ -- lots of different varieties - peg legs, friendly eagles, talon heads and 72-P Type IIs... still sitting in an album not sure what to do with them though...
1 roll of 34-D Peace $ bought off Ebay resulted in 6 34-D VAM 4s - worth about $7,000 after getting them graded... 1 coin was (and still might be) the highest graded example... havent checked the pops in awhile though.
I used to roll hunt like crazy in the late 60's and early 70's and never really found anything major. My best find was 2 solid rolls of mixed Buffalo and War nickels.
Did anyone else here go cross eyed looking through boxes of 72 pennies trying to find the well publicized Double Die?
I look for every major and minor DD but what I've been hunting lately is a 1960 large date over small date on
Wow...I had forgotten all about pulling web notes.
I haven't found one of those in quite a few years.
My luck with halves is similar, but I have never found a Walker, nor a 90%. Just every once in a while the ugly greenish-brown 40%-er.
Bump for a cool thread.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
Where did you get the bagged IKES?
Just for kicks, I began roll-searching for halves and nickels in about 2006 and found a lot of 40%, and a few 90% including two Frankies. The nickels were the most fun as I was able to assemble an almost complete set of Jeffersons (missing 13 coins, I think) from looking through about $4-500 worth of nickels. Surprised how many War nickels I found. Note that I bought a few rolls around 2011 or so, and did not score nearly as well with nickels before the 1960s.
Not eligible, but professional credit to @wondercoin's prodigious progeny's eye-candy production.
The best I ever found from a current value standpoint was a '50-D nickel that I sold for $25 in 1964 (that's about $240 in today's money and a king's ransom for a kid).
At the BMV in East Chicago, IN (September of '82) they gave me three nice gemmy '82-P quarters. I asked where they got their coins and went straight over to the bank and got a bag that had hundreds of nice Gems in it. They were all only worth a quarter apiece then but now the three coins are worth about $15 and the Gems are priceless.
Found app. 100 2007 GW no edge lettering coins. Sold most raw on ebay. Have 10 graded by our host (most 65s, 1 66)
A bit over a year ago I bought a box of nickels and churned out 77 Liberty nickels dated from 1893-1912-D - obviously someone's collection got coin machined.
From my bank for face value...
Junk pile find:
1964 special strike penny. I found it Penny roll hunting.
Bunch of 54-S/D Jeffs in a roll... or was it the 38-S 1¢ roll more than half were s/s and s/s/s
Nice stuff everyone
ttt
Here are a few other finds I've found CRH. Sorry for the fairly poor photos on some of the finds. I do have a few three ring binders with some of the finds. Maybe I'll make a project of taking some better photos. The treasure hunting part of CRH is the best part of it for me though I did cash out a few times when silver went above $35. I was searching pretty hard for a while a few years back and had a lot of luck.
Great thread!
Once I got $15.50 in 90% and about a $10 of 40%... Out of 3 rolls total!
It was easier to pick away the clad stuff from the silver...
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At an auction, I bought a mixed date roll of Mercury Dimes listed as BU. Nearly all were BU (one or two AU's) and the dates were well mixed with a few 20's and 30's highlighted by a 1936 double die coin in MS63 that was worth what I paid for the whole roll.
Pete
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