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When I was a kid in the '50s I had an uncle who owned a tavern give me an 1893CC Morgan that had been spent in his place, these days I continue to come across silver war nickels in circulation.
I always look at cash money and have pulled some oldies out of circulation, nothing like what you guys posted but I have found coins and folding money as far back as from the 1930's. It is neat to think about the history that old coin has seen from the pocket of someone who has lived it.
Recently I was selling some stuff and a guy paid me with a stack of ones and as he was counting it out I spotted an odd bill and it was a Silver certificate. He was a friend so I gave it back to him and he thought that it was a neat bill. I don't think he knew what it really was. I just hope he didn't go on to spend it elsewhere.
my dad and I were walking by the barn on our farm and he spotted an old coin in the dirt.
1881 Canadian penny..........about the size of a US quarter.
He gave it to me .
I checked out to see how much it is worth today...........$3.70
I gave it to my son and told him to pass it down a few more generations and it might be worth a little more.
When I was a kid in the '50s I had an uncle who owned a tavern give me an 1893CC Morgan that had been spent in his place, these days I continue to come across silver war nickels in circulation.
When I was a kid, I had a low-grade (Very Good) 1878-CC dollar. (Presumably given to me by a relative but don't recall specifically how i acquired it.)
Thought it was way cool to have a CC dollar. Then I found out the 1878-CC is the most common CC dollar, and in that grade worth about as much as any low-grade common date Morgan.
Found a 1932-S quarter left on the kitchen table by my aunt with instructions to pay the paperboy when he came to collect. (It was tails side up and the visible "S" got me to check the year. I pocketed it and replaced it with a 1963 quarter from my pocket.) Must have been stolen and spent by a kid from Daddy's coin collection; no way it circulated for 30+ years and made it to the East Coast without being collected by someone.
Found a circulated (Extremely Fine) 1916 Matte Proof Lincoln cent - not worth much because it was circulated but probably my coolest circulation find.
When I was a kid I had an 1846 quarter (Very Fine) given to me by my uncle. Not rare and not worth much but very cool.
A 1943-P silver war nickel was the coin which got me started collecting coins. I noticed the big "P" on the reverse, became curious, and had to ask a lot of people before anyone could explain what I had.
my dad and I were walking by the barn on our farm and he spotted an old coin in the dirt.
1881 Canadian penny..........about the size of a US quarter.
He gave it to me .
I checked out to see how much it is worth today...........$3.70
I gave it to my son and told him to pass it down a few more generations and it might be worth a little more.
Old Canadian and British coins are very cool and very cheap by American standards, perhaps because many fewer people collect them. As a kid in New York it was not unusual to see Canadian coins from time to time.
Old British pennies are very thin and very large - between the size of a quarter and half dollar as I recall. And very worn because they circulated for a long time.
Canadian silver coins are 80% silver, while US silver coins (through 1964) are 90% silver. US half dollars 1965-1969 still have 40% silver and are worth about $2 each at current silver prices. Canadian coins eliminated all silver mid-1968, so some 1968 coins have silver and some do not. I believe 1967-68 Canadian silver coins have 50% silver but I forger the exact details on post-1964 Canadian coins.
Back in the late 50s, early 60s my father was the treasurer of our local neighborhood playground association. Each year the playground association would run a "block party" that included food, games, including a penny-pitch game. After counting the night's proceeds there were well over one hundred Indian head pennies. He replaced them with regular pennies and put the Indian head pennies in a tin container.
Many years later he gave the tin to me. As I went through the coins, I found a 1909S Indian head penny. I would say it is in Fine to VF condition. It's probably worth between $300 and $500. The other pennies total worth is about the same as the 1909S.
They are still in the same tin, although now nicely arranged in coin holders.
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No coins, but I found a 100oz silver bar currently worth about $1,700 buried in my front yard about 20 years ago. LOL No idea how it got there. Only thing we could think of was the old guy who used to own the property stashed it for a rainy day and took the secret to the grave with him or forgot where he buried it. Sadly it was alone. I know. I looked.
I used it for a door stop for years, then I found out what silver was worth and put it in the safe deposit box.
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