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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[markmopar]

What machines take large dollars? None around here do.

As far as I know, none.

 

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[Ben Cartwright SASS]

THen how did you get 12 silver dollars out of the machine, just wondering. Were they in the reject tray?

 

[mountainman 2]

One of favorite finds came out of a cwr of cents. It was a civil war token, type 169/213. It's not my most valuable find but the last thing i thought would come out of a roll of cents.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/coin-roll-hunting/549049-unexpected-find-cwr-cents.html

 

[markmopar]

THen how did you get 12 silver dollars out of the machine, just wondering. Were they in the reject tray?

They were rattling around inside the sorting mechanism. When the teller opened the machine to see what the racket was, he handed them to me.

 

[rcs]

Mine would be my 1876 seated half I pulled last year.