What is your favorite CRH coin find? me: Cameo Proof Franklin

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

What is your favorite single coin found while CRHing, not best box or best roll but the coin that you like the best and will probably keep?

Mine is a 1962 CAMEO proof Franklin half dollar. Finding Proof Franklins is rare to begin with but a Cameo is very rare. As a coin collector I know that there are very few cameo Franklins found and they bring big money.
When this coin was cut out of the proof set it must have been a beauty! This would have been a $70 coin at least. it is still in pretty good shape for having been dumped in a coin machine somewhere.
I keep it on the shelf above my desk with my camera collection (I am a former US Navy Photographer) along with my 1917 Mercury (AU+) and 1915 Canadian Dime (XF+).

I still shake every time I think about finding it and smile every time I look at it!

Did I mention that even getting one in a proof set from a dealer is rare?

 

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[GB1]

mine would have to be a 1906 Indian head penny

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Sweet find!

 

[enamel7]

1916D merc.

 

[Dozer D]

Your real find that you will cherish the rest of your life, is the BRONZE STAR from the service I presume? Congrats on both the coins and the MEDAL.

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I cannot do stolen valor, I was US Navy, and only got the gdunk medal and good conduct medal (72-76)

The Bronze Star was my Dad's, USMC on Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian and Roi Namur. He won the Bronze Star on Saipan! I keep it there to remind me every day of him.

I did a website for he and his men HQ224USMC Honoring the men of the HQ Company lots of pictures from Parris Island and the different battles. Worth checking out.

 

[Twitch]

Here's my favorite CRH find. I also have a 1925 Stone Mountain that I found in Georgia and an 1830 Bust half that I'm fond of.

 

[Zomotion]

Here's my favorite CRH find. I also have a 1925 Stone Mountain that I found in Georgia and an 1830 Bust half that I'm fond of.

I still think this is one of the coolest finds I've seen in this forum

 

[Zomotion]

1916s wheat cent in Au condition. Also a woody.




This 1996 p half dollar I just found is my fav error. Clipped planchette and a die break near kennedys neck

 

[cyberdan]

I was US Navy, and only got the gdunk medal and good conduct medal (72-76)

I can't remember and single favorite but I once stopped at a Chinese bank (in SoCA) and the teller finally understood what I wanted when I showed her an IKE dollar. (she did not understand BIG dollar no matter how loud I said it) She reached under her counter and pulled out a baggy of big coins. I said yes and bought all. I almost ran back to my car to open and look closer. (its been a few years) There were between 20 and 25 big coins. A few IKES but mostly Morgans, Peace and I think three Standing Liberty silver rounds. ALL AT $1.00 EACH.


Now, sorry for changing the topic. We missed each other by a couple of years. I was in the Navy from 68 to 72 and the last couple of years I was my ships photographer. (USS Camden AOE2) I did 4 tours in Viet Nam and we even did Korea for some show of force. After I got out of the fleet I was a SeaBee photographer for about 4 years. What ship were you on?

 

[Johnny5]

I was in the Navy also from 1968 - 1972. I was on the DD 705 USS Compton a training ship for the reserves. I also did a tour in Danang in 1970.

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I was a Navy Photographer from '72-'76, 18 months in Pensacola (tough duty) and then the USS Independence CV-62

Best years of my life! They stopped sending people to Nam just as I got out of A school. wish I had gone... happy that I did not

 

[Buchsy]

Following that thought, my favorites were 9 silver dollars (7 Morgans and 2 Peace) out of 23 picked up from an oblivious teller, and a BU roll of 1963 Franklins that were "mint fresh" blast white.

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

Following that thought, my favorites were 9 silver dollars (7 Morgans and 2 Peace) out of 23 picked up from an oblivious teller, and a BU roll of 1963 Franklins that were "mint fresh" blast white.

WOW! That must have been thrilling!

 

[Dozer D]

My most recent of BEST FINES, was just last year Jan 2017, when I had a DREAM BOX of silver dimes from a bank rolled box, consisted of 98-silvers (65-mercs, 33-Rosies). The thrill lasted for weeks for me.

 

[treeslayer]

best coin was 42 over 41 merc xf. also found 4 gold wedding bands over a 5 year period . teller did not want them . gave them my phone number in case some one came forward to claim . never herd a thing . real shame . picture of coin on my old posts . HH

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

best coin was 42 over 41 merc xf. also found 4 gold wedding bands over a 5 year period . teller did not want them . gave them my phone number in case some one came forward to claim . never herd a thing . real shame . picture of coin on my old posts . HH

were the bands in rolls?

 

[enamel7]

were the bands in rolls?

I would think they were in the counter or trash container. No one would mistakenly roll up rings.

 

[markmopar]

One of my favorites was the time I got 12 silver dollars out of the machine when I was dumping halves.

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

What machines take large dollars? None around here do.