Found in change!

DBSTrader2 · October 22, 2011 3:06AM

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 · October 22, 2011 5:21AM

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

LowBudget · October 22, 2011 6:38AM

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

RunnersDad · October 22, 2011 7:45AM

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 · October 22, 2011 11:46AM

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 · October 22, 2011 12:17PM

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

BTW nice find

oildvr · October 22, 2011 7:53PM

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 · October 22, 2011 8:40PM

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

JamesMurray · November 7, 2011 5:16AM

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 · November 7, 2011 5:53AM

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 · November 7, 2011 6:13AM

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 · November 7, 2011 9:36AM

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 · November 7, 2011 11:06AM

<< <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 · November 7, 2011 12:07PM

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 · November 7, 2011 12:10PM

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

johnny9434 · November 8, 2011 3:39AM

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 · November 10, 2011 6:13AM

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 · November 10, 2011 7:41AM

<< <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 · November 11, 2011 12:34AM

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

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