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ThePiggyBankThePiggyBank Posts: 20
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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

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    MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 9,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that is cool ! Great Pickup!
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    AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,375 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow!
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
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    JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great find
    Congrats
    Now get that in an airtight before the zinc goes back to nature.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Amazing 'pick up'...have found many cents on the street/parking lots, but never one like that. Cheers, RickO
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    tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Sweet!!!
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    Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool coin Jack. I wonder if some day we will look at VISA cards the way we look at coins.image


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    SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,877 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Makes me want to cry
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    edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    So, that's a double strike?
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    CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    Great pick up! Too bad it was on the street rather than in change from the supermarket or something...
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,821 ✭✭✭✭✭


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



    Doubled Die Reverse or DDR for short

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    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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    GoldClauseGoldClause Posts: 838 ✭
    Wow, that's awesome! Wonder how much it's worth though, all beat up like that.
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    tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ...too bad it was pounded so much. image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,540 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ive picked up many cents before but never got that lucky. i wish it was in better shape but just the same. congrats image
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    coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭
    That's awesome and sucks at the same time! image



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    ThePiggyBankThePiggyBank Posts: 20
    Thanks Everyone. This was definitely an exciting, yet disheartening find.
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    robkoolrobkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OUCH !!! But a pretty kool find tho...
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    lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,492 ✭✭✭
    sweet n sad in the same breath...
    you get my vote for "best in tha street find of 2012"
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


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    keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,650 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WOW!!!
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
    Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner. :smile:
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    kimber45ACPkimber45ACP Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭
    image
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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,053 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.

    bobimage
    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
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    rec78rec78 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Too image Exciting find.
    Bob
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    GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Even as a roadkill that's a cool DDR! image
    Ed
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    mrpaseomrpaseo Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭
    You ahhhh want me to put a bullet hole in that thing to top it off?
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    kevinstangkevinstang Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭
    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! image
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    Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    I think it`d be cool slabbed even labled as genuine or authentic
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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! image

    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.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 6,094 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder if a coin doctor could fix it up for you?image
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    stephunterstephunter Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭
    Is that considered a cherrypick?
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    baseballjeffbaseballjeff Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭
    Way to go!

    I always pick up pennies on the street, but I've never been that lucky!
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,409 ✭✭✭✭✭


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

    YOU BETCHA!

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    BTW, my dirt road "penny" pickup from last April was similarly intriguing, if not very valuable monetarily.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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, veryimage

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    LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,910 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    I`m always looking for these in change too.

    Someday I`ll find one....

    Someday....

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    seanqseanq Posts: 8,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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
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    guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭

    Coin Values has this at $170 in MS63RB.

    Very cool find TPB.

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    tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


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




    ...image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
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    chieftain1chieftain1 Posts: 107
    Great Find.........at least it has been "road-tested".
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    Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    It has wear that would usually reveal the zinc core.
    What does it weigh.
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    ThePiggyBankThePiggyBank Posts: 20


    << <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.

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