CRHing... with a little help from my friends

Cerulean

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CRH'ing... with a little help from my friends

A few months back, I had mentioned my coin collecting hobby to a co-worker of mine. Today, he remembered that chat and decided that I would appreciate a coin he had found in supermarket change. He walked into my office, and dropped a 1903-P Indian head penny into my palm. "It's yours," he said. I thanked him for his thoughtfulness, and tipped him a dollar coin. Like Thurmownater says, nice begets nice.

Yay, this is now the oldest coin in my collection, beating my previous oldest find from 1919 by more than a decade. Where has this penny been in 105 years?

1903 was the year of...
--> the Wright Brothers made their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk.
--> Pope Leo XIII died, and was succeeded by Pius X.
--> the Teddy Bear and the Ford Model A were both introduced.
--> Bicyclists compete in the first Tour De France race.
--> Panama became independent from Colombia, then gave the USA rights to dig the Panama Canal. Digging started the following year.
--> Jack London published his most famous novel The Call of the Wild, and Scott Joplin published his ragtime masterpiece The Entertainer.
--> Cinema audiences were thrilled by The Great Train Robbery, a crime western. Women fainted during the climatic scene in which a cowboy fires a gun toward the screen, "shooting" at the audience.

Gotta love coin collecting... these small touchstones of the past get me focused on specific points in time. It's the closest I'll ever become to being a time traveler.
 

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Nice friend you got there.

I liked your perspective on shedding light on the time period. I often try to think back to those days, but I'm sure I can accurately imagine it. I too imagine what things were purchased with that coin. How many transactions/hands has it passed through?

I found one Indian head in circulation years ago, but I can remember the year now.
 

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And yay, I friend of mine gave me some foreign finds he'd been setting aside for me:

Canada, 1 cent (2005-P)
Canada, 5 cents (1980)
Peru, 1 centimo (2007)
Switzerland, 5 rappen (1997)

It's a great thing in this hobby to have extra eyes helping you.
 

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Nice one Cerulean! You are right, in that nice begets nice, in many facets of life. Thanks for adding the historical perspective, it adds a nice touch to the coin story! HH Gpurs......
 

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Finds from the family:

3 wheat pennies (1941, 1954-D, 1957-D)
3 old Jeff nickels (1952 x2, 1955-D)
1 silver Roosie (1964-D)
9 Canadian cents (1959, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1992, 2002)
1 Canada dime (1989)
1 Barbados 10 cents (1979)


Thanks for the extra eyes and extra effort, kin!
 

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Last spring, my pal Ian mentioned that he found a buffalo nickel in his change, and that of course he saved it for me. But just like everything else that enters his house, it vanishes in the piles of clutter, and he lost track of it.

He thought it might have gotten rolled up with his other nickels, so I sorted through his rolls and found it, the very last coin at the bottom of the last roll. The poor thing is dateless, but it's still in better condition than my other buffalo. Also ran across a 1956-D nickel along the way.
 

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Nice work!

It is always nice to have people holding stuff for you as they find it, whether it is tellers, family... friends, etc.

Keep it up... and tell them to do the same!

~Dave
 

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In a friend's change jar, a 1958-D nickel and a 1964-P dime.
 

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Grats on the new scores! Stealing silver from friends... gotta love it!

=)

~Dave
 

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From a co-worker's change jar:

wheat cents:
1949-P
1950-P
1951-P x2
1952-D x2
1955-P
1956-D
1958-D

Other:
1939-P nickel
1963 Canada cent
1981 Canada cent
2005 Greece, 2 eurocents
 

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:thumbsup:
 

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My friends suck... Instead of bringing me coins they come over and take my money (monthly poker game) and drink my beer.

Obviously, I need to find some new friends.
 

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While on Thanksgiving vacation, I searched four change jars belonging to various family members, totaling hundreds of dollars worth of coin. Here's what I found (and kept):

wheat cents (18):
1919-D
1925 (new!)
1938
1944
1946
1947-S
1948
1950-D
1951-D
1952-D
1953-D x2
1955-D
1956
1956-D x2
1957
1958-D

Canadian cents [8]:
1979
1984
1986
1987 x2
1999
2003-P Queen 3
2007-RCM

old Jeff nickels (10):
1939
1940
1940-S
1941
1946
1954-D
1957
1957-D
1958-D x2

foreign (2):
Australia, 10 cents (1980) (new!)
Mexico, 2 pesos (2004) (new!)
 

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Very nice work good sir!

I assume you didn't just find them but got to keep them as well? =)

Grats on the wheats... some nice oldies in there.

And on the other coinage as well!

~Dave
 

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The Lone Wheat: a play in one act by Cerulean

ACT I
(Setting: a boardgame retail store. BIG GUY is counting up the register till at end of evening. CERULEAN is standing nearby in idle chit chat.)

CERULEAN: I spy, with my li'l eye, a wheat penny in that tray!

BIG GUY: Oh, you can buy it out of the register if you want it. (CERULEAN fumbles in his pockets for change.)

CERULEAN: I've got nothing on me, but I can run out to my car and get a quarter.

BIG GUY: For goodness sakes! (BIG GUY pulls a penny from his pocket, tosses it in the till, and hands CERULEAN a 1917 wheat penny from the till.) Here, it's yours.

~Fin.~
 

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To some people a penny is worthless... then to others it is a treasure. =)

~Dave
 

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A dear friend of mine, one well acquainted with my affinity for weird coins, saved a France, 5 centimes (1996) for me from his pocket change.
 

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Yup I mentioned to my grandmother that I'd started collecting coins again and she said oh your Granddaddy used to collect coins....Saturday she brings over three old Whitman folders with pre-59 Washington quarters and Merc dimes! I spent hours pulling them out and putting them in 2x2s! What a great present.
 

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alabamadan said:
Yup I mentioned to my grandmother that I'd started collecting coins again and she said oh your Granddaddy used to collect coins....Saturday she brings over three old Whitman folders with pre-59 Washington quarters and Merc dimes! I spent hours pulling them out and putting them in 2x2s! What a great present.

My grandma has saved a bunch of peace, morgan, and other various silver over the years as well. It's interesting to see how many older folks (Grandparents) know about coins. :thumbsup:
 

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alabamadan said:
Yup I mentioned to my grandmother that I'd started collecting coins again and she said oh your Granddaddy used to collect coins....Saturday she brings over three old Whitman folders with pre-59 Washington quarters and Merc dimes! I spent hours pulling them out and putting them in 2x2s! What a great present.

Why would you take them out of the folders? It seems like the folders would make a better display than a bunch of 2x2s.
 

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