Find a penny, pick it up.....

ThePiggyBank · February 12, 2012 2:27AM

You all know the rest. Found this lying on the street while walking to pick the tots up from school. Just thought I'd share. Thanks

Meltdown · February 12, 2012 2:29AM

Now that is cool ! Great Pickup!

AnkurJ · February 12, 2012 2:41AM

Wow!

JRocco · February 12, 2012 2:48AM

Great find
Congrats
Now get that in an airtight before the zinc goes back to nature.

ricko · February 12, 2012 2:58AM

Amazing 'pick up'...have found many cents on the street/parking lots, but never one like that. Cheers, RickO

tightbudget · February 12, 2012 3:23AM

Sweet!!!

Type2 · February 12, 2012 3:30AM

Cool coin Jack. I wonder if some day we will look at VISA cards the way we look at coins.

Smittys · February 12, 2012 3:31AM

Makes me want to cry

edix2001 · February 12, 2012 3:41AM

So, that's a double strike?

CarlWohlforth · February 12, 2012 3:53AM

Great pick up! Too bad it was on the street rather than in change from the supermarket or something...

PerryHall · February 12, 2012 4:01AM

<< <i>So, that's a double strike? >>

Doubled Die Reverse or DDR for short

GoldClause · February 12, 2012 4:07AM

Wow, that's awesome! Wonder how much it's worth though, all beat up like that.

tahoe98 · February 12, 2012 4:08AM

...too bad it was pounded so much.

johnny9434 · February 12, 2012 5:12AM

ive picked up many cents before but never got that lucky. i wish it was in better shape but just the same. congrats

coinkid855 · February 12, 2012 5:16AM

That's awesome and sucks at the same time!

-Paul

ThePiggyBank · February 12, 2012 7:35AM

Thanks Everyone. This was definitely an exciting, yet disheartening find.

robkool · February 12, 2012 11:33AM

OUCH !!! But a pretty kool find tho...

lasvegasteddy · February 12, 2012 11:37AM

sweet n sad in the same breath...
you get my vote for "best in tha street find of 2012"

keyman64 · February 12, 2012 11:46AM

WOW!!!

kimber45ACP · February 12, 2012 11:57AM

AUandAG · February 12, 2012 11:57AM

That is a fun find. Now, I wish I had picked up that Memorial beneath my feet in the Lowes
parking lot yesterday. But, alas I let it lie.

bob

rec78 · February 12, 2012 12:19PM

Too

Exciting find.
Bob

GrumpyEd · February 12, 2012 12:21PM

Even as a roadkill that's a cool DDR!

mrpaseo · February 12, 2012 12:27PM

You ahhhh want me to put a bullet hole in that thing to top it off?

kevinstang · February 12, 2012 1:29PM

Great find, I've been searching for that one ever since reading about them back in the day, both in circulation and rolls from the bank, never found one...and to think one could be picked up as an eyeball find is amazing-- gives me hope yet!

Cam40 · February 12, 2012 1:33PM

I think it`d be cool slabbed even labled as genuine or authentic

lordmarcovan · February 12, 2012 1:37PM

I picked up three in a parking lot this morning, but didn't check the dates or lettering. Once I see the Memorial reverse I usually don't bother to go any further or put on my glasses- I just stick 'em in my pocket.

You've got a doubly sharp eye to not only pick up that penny but notice its VERY cool secret. Awesome!

Oh, and I for one don't find the "roadkill" aspect of that coin so heartbreaking. OK, so you were too late to save it, perhaps, but now it's unique and has a great story. You should cherish that one. It's kinda like the "Ice Cream" specimen of the 1894-S dime, which ended up in circulation. I'd rather have that circulated example than the finest known one.

pocketpiececommems · February 12, 2012 1:47PM

I wonder if a coin doctor could fix it up for you?

stephunter · February 12, 2012 2:09PM

Is that considered a cherrypick?

baseballjeff · February 12, 2012 2:55PM

Way to go!

I always pick up pennies on the street, but I've never been that lucky!

lordmarcovan · February 12, 2012 3:18PM

<< <i>Is that considered a cherrypick? >>

YOU BETCHA!

lordmarcovan · February 12, 2012 3:21PM

BTW, my dirt road "penny" pickup from last April was similarly intriguing, if not very valuable monetarily.

nwcoast · February 12, 2012 5:44PM

Amazing that you noticed this through all the rough spots that would seem to overwhelm the eye with a rough glance (which is very likely what I would have done had I picked it up) and like LordM- it would have gone right into the old pocket.

Congratulations on the great find!!! Lots of character with that coin, and a story too...
very, very

LeeBone · February 12, 2012 10:57PM

I`m always looking for these in change too.

Someday I`ll find one....

Someday....

seanq · February 12, 2012 11:53PM

Just an astonishing find. I guess the cherries really are still out there in circulation, the trick now is to find them before someone else casually throws them away.

Sean Reynolds

guitarwes · February 12, 2012 11:59PM

Coin Values has this at $170 in MS63RB.

Very cool find TPB.

tahoe98 · February 13, 2012 12:00AM

<< <i>I wonder if a coin doctor could fix it up for you?

>>

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chieftain1 · February 13, 2012 12:11AM

Great Find.........at least it has been "road-tested".

Cam40 · February 13, 2012 10:00AM

It has wear that would usually reveal the zinc core.
What does it weigh.

ThePiggyBank · February 13, 2012 11:45AM

<< <i>It has wear that would usually reveal the zinc core.
What does it weigh. >>

I don't have a scale, but using a pencil and a ruler, the weight matched a zinc lincoln.

Find a penny, pick it up.....

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