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I did some grocery shopping today at Whole Foods and gave out some paper and received back some coins.
I didn’t pay attention at the store, but when I emptied my pockets at home, I was shocked! In the change I got back was this 1928 Buffalo Nickel in with shiny pennies and dimes. How did this happen in Oct. 2018? It’s pretty worn and has a gash in the Indian forehead. 90 year old coin and still in circulation. Made my day, Chris. |
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Wow that is very cool, maybe the person just before you, or someone that day, gave it to the cashier when they paid, and it hadn’t gone to a bank yet. The person might have had it and never knew it. I almost never look at my coins.
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About a year ago I was driving somewhere and noticed a 1901 Indian penny in the coin tray of my car. I asked my teenage son about it and he recalled getting it in change and thought it was just a foreign coin....kids these days.
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That's cool that it's still in circulation.
I've got a few of those myself.. http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...1&d=1540012939 http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...1&d=1540012939 |
Very cool ... the odds of that are very very low at this point in time.
Somebody cleaned out the cushions in the couch in the basement. |
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I received one about a year ago. Worn so bad, hard to tell what it was.
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...cleaned under the seats in the GTO.
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if you find a 3 leg nickle then you hit the jackpot
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It's unusual to get one in change these days, but don't quit your day job. :) It's probably only worth about 25 cents.
I occasionally will find a wheat penny in my change, but the most common old coin I get for some reason are Jefferson nickels from the late 1930s or 1940s - I guess they must have been designed so they hold up better than other coins for long term use. |
Appears to be a '28-S, looks like the San Francisco "S" mintmark on the reverse, might be worth a few bucks, the gash on the Indian doesn't help the value
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Coins are pretty interesting. I have a bunch from my Great Grandfather, but I don't know a whole lot about them. That Buffalo Nickel is cool!
I have one of those old cookie tins filled with old pennies. The thing must weigh 20lbs lol. I don't think there's anything special in the tin, because if there was they'd probably be with the rest of the collection. |
Right after I turned 18, some of the other kids I knew in high school started asking me to buy cigarettes for them. I always told them no, except one day a kid asked me to buy him a few packs(he was actually 18 as well but didn't have any ID yet), and the sound of the change jingling in his pocket made me curious about how he was gonna pay me for them.. he produced a large handful of pre-1964 half dollars - most of them in pretty nice shape! I gladly took them and bought the cigarettes with my own money. Still got them of course, along with all the other old/interesting/foreign currency I've gotten over the years.
My fast food job in high school netted me a ton of silver coins, plus some silver certificate $1s and $5s, reds and blues, plus a host of other vintage bills. When my great aunt passed away in 2010, we discovered that she had saved piles and piles of coins in various places throughout her house, and some of those piles were quite old and contained a lot of silver. Took a good bit of time to sort through all that, but I got to keep all that stuff. Most of the others in my family would have just taken it to the local coin shop and taken whatever they offered for it, but I recognize its value to hang onto for the long run. Through all my ups and downs in life, I'm glad I've always managed to hang onto all that stuff. |
Yup...still have my penny collection,I started in 1968. Use to go to the bank and swapped out penny rolls after delivering papers. Got a 1909 VDB too.....but no “s” VDB
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My wife had a blue $100.00 Silver Certificate in hers hands at the liquor store where she worked back in the early 90s. I said to keep it and give the till a regular 100.00 in place of it. Well she wouldn't, and wouldn't let me give $100.00 for it. It's the only one I've ever seen. I can only imagine its value today.
As for the Indian head nickels...hang on to them. Even damaged they're worth a few bucks. |
Working in a bar part time for 30 plus years I've been handed all kinds of strange stuff ... and yes in most cases it's probably from some kid that robbed Grandpa. Got a full roll of uncirculated 64 silver quarters ... still have them, and seven sequential serial number $1 sliver certificates ... still have them.
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That's pretty neat! The last 'vintage' silver coin I got back as change was a 1940 Mercury dime. Have gotten Buffalo nickles in change prior to that, but that was in the 1970's. Recently I got a really nice 1918 penny in change....like last year. I always look at the date if it's a wheat-back penny. Most people don't pay attention to the pennies, but a Buffalo nickel really stands out. Pretty cool.......
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Have a bunch of those old ones in a box somewhere. Only buffalo nickles I see in change are the new ones.
Thought it was interesting they omitted the Indian, and reversed the Buffalo. Back in the day facing to the left was a symbol of manifest destiny and westward expansion. As an aside, sports teams have also changed their mascot to face rightward. Looking at older memorabilia most were facing left. https://www.collectons.com//images/i...1317920957.jpg |
Both the 1909 VDB and '09S (no VDB) are somewhat rare in their own right, with value depending on condition
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My dad also said it was a 4 cent nickel as it took a scent to smell the buffalo's azz
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I bought some stuff from goodwill and when they gave me change I heard a different sound when the coins were dropped in my hand. Just as I suspected, a couple of silver quarters. I then asked for a extra dollars worth, nope 4 regular. Out of habit I always check the edges of quarters and dimes if its all silver its silver.
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Dad had a 1909 S VDB he loaned my grandmother to complete her penny collection. He found it in his change as a kid. I think it ended up disappearing though. :( I used to count all the concession money back in high school. Every so often some kid would get into their parents collections and I'd find old coins or silver certificates. If I had the $$ in my pocket i'd swap them out.
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He's the guy I got my buffalo nickels from actually. This was 30 years ago. |
Back in the late '60s, I saved every Wheat Penny, Indian Head Nickel, and silver coin I received while collecting for my paper route. Plus a couple Silver Certificate bucks and anything else that seemed unusual.
I've long assumed that they were worth little more than face value. They are all worn, nothing pristine. I've assumed that any such coin that I've found in more recent years was evidence that a guy like me had gone to a coin shop and was told his well worn collection of coins was of little collector value so simply started spending them. I figured I'd eventually get around to doing the same. This thread is an eye opener for me. Maybe my coins have appreciated more than I would have thought. According to one source I checked, a '28 S Nickel in similar condition (well worn and considered "good") might sell for about a buck (I assume that is retail value). I wouldn't be able to fund my retirement if my collection was valued at 20 times face value. But even at 5 times face value it would be worth more than I would have guessed. Sweet! Someday I'll have to spend some time to see what I have. |
My mother used to have a ton of silver certificates but they have been lost to the ages.
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Locally, a couple years back, we had a rash of very old coins showing up in peoples change. I got a few myself. A police story in the local paper told of a couple meth-heads who'd burglarized homes where they'd stolen coin collections. Rather than trying to fence them for collectible value, they simply used them as face value to buy "necessities". Sad but true.
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That must be Chief Pontiac on the head side of that nickel, and just like our cars, they ain't makin' them anymore.
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circulation finds are the best!!
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I think the last Buffalo Head Nickel I saw was as a kid in the early 1970's. We were at my Dad's bowling league a Fazzio's Bridge Bowl and he gave me a nickel to play a pin ball machine. I remember looking at it and think it looked different, right before I proceeded to put it in the coin slot.
Wish I had kept it. Didn't know I would not get another one in the nearly 50 years that have passed. Doug |
Pretty cool find, and quite rare today. Wheat pennies were abundant when I was a kid, I havent seen one for years now. My grandmother collected coins for my oldest brother when he was very young (early-mid fifties) in blue coin books. I remember them being full of buffalo nickles, mercury dimes, lady liberty coins etc. Every once in awhile I wonder if he still has them. At one time you could fill a wheelbarrow with all of them.
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When I was a kid in the 1960s we'd periodically get rolls of pennies from the bank and sort through them for our collections. At that time wheat pennies were common but occasionally there would be a few old ones, I remember finding a couple wartime steel pennies and even a few from 1909 (although no S or VDB). There was one time we got an entire roll of pre-1909 Indian pennies, that was pretty fun.
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Still get a wheat penny every year or two now. Silver and nickels way more rare to get. Like many here, I have a handful of old coins ratholed from the years. Most are not collector grade. I actually like the semi worn ones (but not bad) because they have the mojo of all the people over the years that had them. Pocketful of Americana. I keep 1972 coins in my in Bird for good luck.
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I started collecting coins in the mid-70's (great hobby, btw), and was an avid change searcher. Wheat pennies were still fairly common and I still find them occasionally to this day. Silver coins were already mostly removed from circulation by this time. I also used to exchange rolls of pennies with our bank on a weekly basis - found a 1909 VDB once and a few steelies. Old Jefferson nickles are still fairly common, though most are not typically worth more than face value.
When I worked at Woolworth's in the mid '80s, I would always have some pocket change to exchange with anything interesting I found in the register. Don't remember finding much more than wheaties, though. |
I have been a collector as far back as I can remeber, and up until the last decade, 98% of my collection was gleaned from pocket change - either mine, or a family members.
I found my first wartime penny in the 1980's and thought it was an error penny until a while later someone told me that's the way they were made in the 'States during the war; My first buffalo nickle, and mercury dime were given to me by my great aunt; My first (and only) american silver change find was on my honeymoon in July 2013 - were were at the dole factory, and were getting quarters from the change machine to make crushed pennies for my nephews and nieces - and low and behold I got a silver quarter!! the people who really "cheat" are the ones who go the the bank every week, and buy a box full of rolled coins to search through for silver ect... I primarily just pay attention to my pocket change. |
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I know a pharmacist that swapped out a bunch of 1920's vintage silver dollars out of the cash register years ago. He later learned from a parent of a sticky-finger kid, that the kid was stealing the coins to buy what he wanted at the drug store. Those were expensive sticks of gum!
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My parents saved a bunch of “zinc” pennies that were made for a time during WWII. Must’ve been around 1956 that I spent them .... on penny candy, of course.
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I went through my small stash of old coins today.
I have many of the copper Wheat pennies and will find one every few years. Most all of the 1943 pennies where steel and coated with zinc for the WWII effort. We needed the copper for ammunition material. Below are a couple zinc pennies and a couple “Old” one cent examples (1883, 1893). My Father received some coins (copper, silver) from his dad and passed them to me 50+ years ago. PS, I only had “one” Buffalo Nickel until this week. Now I have two. Chris. |
Anyone have any old paper money? My wife brought home a 1928 five dollar bill a long time ago. She was cashier at a liquor store at the time. It's in excellent condition. Have no idea what it's worth.
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We were cleaning out a basement at a bank throwing away all of the stuff that had been sitting for years. Completely random I found 2 1935 silver certificate dollar bills. Pop was born in 1935 so I had them matted and framed and gave them to him for his birthday.
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thanks for the link!
(I will read it later) I have a silver certificate - it's nearly perfect.. except for a tiny piece of the corner... which is missing. |
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Greg, read here about Red Seal 5 dollar bills.
http://oldcurrencyvalues.com/1928_red_seal_fives/ Check the serial no., if it begins with a red star, it's got some value. As the story mentions, they weren't necessarily printed in 1928, the 1928F was still being printed in the '50s. |
Figures...worth about $7....lol Mine is a 1928B
Thanks John! |
What some of you might be missing in worrying about what each coin is worth, is the cool factor.
Like it or not we are heading quickly to a cashless world. Denmark has already switched |
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