CTXAgGetter
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- Joined
- Mar 2, 2019
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- Location
- Central Texas
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Etrac
Minelab Equinox
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
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I haven't posted here in a while but thought this haul might be worth a thread.
Friday evening I pulled this fistful of change from the reject slot of my favorite local Coinstar machine.
Even though it is dark in the lobby of the store, I could tell by the tone of the pennies while they were still in the slot that there were a lot of older copper cents in the mix. This meant to me that, most likely, a lot of these coins were from an older cache of coins that had spent a fair amount of time out of circulation. (I was right... only 11 of the 26 cents were zincolns.)
I went out to the car and tossed them on the passenger seat to sort through the obvious foreigns and get a closer look at the steelie. Even a smashed penny was in the mix.
Here are the foreign coins, excluding the 1936 5 centavos. (I must not have found it in the pile yet.)
I think it is a pretty neat design... nothing I have ever come across in a Coinstar or metal detecting. Unfortunately, just copper-nickel, though.
Anyway... enjoyed the group for its variety and was excited to get it home and put a couple of these coins away. It wasn't till I got home with better lighting that I realized that the haul DID include a 1964 rosie... so, silver after all!
You can see the D mint mark on the rosie's reverse in the group passenger seat pic if you zoom in enough.
Happy hunting and good luck!
Friday evening I pulled this fistful of change from the reject slot of my favorite local Coinstar machine.
Even though it is dark in the lobby of the store, I could tell by the tone of the pennies while they were still in the slot that there were a lot of older copper cents in the mix. This meant to me that, most likely, a lot of these coins were from an older cache of coins that had spent a fair amount of time out of circulation. (I was right... only 11 of the 26 cents were zincolns.)
I went out to the car and tossed them on the passenger seat to sort through the obvious foreigns and get a closer look at the steelie. Even a smashed penny was in the mix.
Here are the foreign coins, excluding the 1936 5 centavos. (I must not have found it in the pile yet.)
I think it is a pretty neat design... nothing I have ever come across in a Coinstar or metal detecting. Unfortunately, just copper-nickel, though.
Anyway... enjoyed the group for its variety and was excited to get it home and put a couple of these coins away. It wasn't till I got home with better lighting that I realized that the haul DID include a 1964 rosie... so, silver after all!
You can see the D mint mark on the rosie's reverse in the group passenger seat pic if you zoom in enough.
Happy hunting and good luck!
