Best pocket change finds?

[fjer]

What are everyone's best "accidental" finds - the best you've gotten in normal change?

For me, I've never found silver, so my best would be a proof SBA. The best I've personally seen was my dad getting a Merc dime about a year ago.

 

[AdDicted2Ag]

a silver quarter that I received from a hardware store..

 

[CoinFetcher]

I had a silver dime in my change jar about 1 year ago. It started my hunt.

 

[PhattyB]

Finding a 1964 quarter renewed my hunting as an adult, but as a kid, I got a buffalo nickel, and a 1921 morgan.

 

[stonehenge]

A 64 half at a convenience store last year.


A silver Washington quarter at a bar about 3 years ago.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

a 1956d washington quarter from my mother's purse when I was a kid... she told me, "hey, this quarter is dirty and sounds weird, you can have it" LOL I was 6 at the time and knew about silver coinage from my grandfather. I still have that quarter.
On another occasion, a 1964 quarter AND dime from a vending machine at a roller skating place when I was at a birthday party in 5th grade... if only I had more cash on me to keep hitting the reject button.

nothing recent, maybe a proof ike from 1974-S(not silver) or a 1943p war nickel.
hh
buff

 

[fistfulladirt]

Two silver Washington quarters last year from two different gas stations in the area. Also the year before, a silver Canadian quarter from another gas station.

 

[Bad Wolf]

Found a '43 Merc a few years ago in pocket change, don't know where it came from and so far nothing but Roosies CRH.

 

[sax player]

Last year at school, I found 2 silver dimes on the ground in the same week!

 

[Daffyduk]

My wife used to work at a convenient store..like a 7-11. Told her to always check the change and told her what to look for. In the last year she worked there, she gave me a 1946 Washington and a 1947 Roosevelt

 

[snakeking162]

i got a mercury dime from my moms coin thing in her car

 

[pong12211]

A 1956 dime from the change jar on our kitchen table....

 

[ArkieBassMan]

I have been checking my pocket change religiously since the mid-1970's. My all-time best find is a common date wheatie.

 

[unclehuckelberry]

Silver quarter from Southern Baptist Chicken.

 

[maine_Jim]

Did four boxes of halves one day and got skunked then I stopped at a sandwich store and got a silver dime back in my change.

Maine_Jim

 

[sagittarius98]

Southern Baptist Chicken.

KFC?

 

[baddbluff]

Coolest recent pocket change find was a '63 Proof Washington quarter

 

[AdDicted2Ag]

Coolest recent pocket change find was a '63 Proof Washington quarter

A 63 proof Is an awesome find badbluff.. Do you know how it found its way into your change? I normally check the second I get handed change back..

 

[Thorne]

Mine was a 63 Rosie. I always check my change but must have missed it. Found it when I got a Littleton folder for clad dimes. Grabbed all the change from my truck and put it on my desk to sort trough. when I walked past it I noticed it sitting there with its all white rim.

 

[mspsarge]

How about this error (heavy grease) strike my dad got back in change. He gave it to me. The faint date reads 1994.

Greg