oxbowbarefoot
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Found my second GOLD coin today! But not how you'd expect...
Last Saturday it was raining pretty hard here in southern Vermont so rather than going detecting, I decided to go to the bank. It's been a long time since I've done a good coin roll hunt so I figured I'd try my luck. They only had $50 in halves, which turned out to be skunks. I decided to buy a box of nickels. Now, I almost always find foreign coins in any denomination when going through boxes, but never like the one I found Saturday. About 15 rolls into the box I hadn't found any keepers until I noticed an gold/brass color. It was the same diameter as the nickels but had raised print along its rim. I figured it was going to be a modern brass foreign coin or token. When I pulled it from the roll I was pretty shocked to see 1878 20 francs. I flipped it over and saw the Angel. Foreign gold coins are not my specialty, so l had to look it up. Turns out it's 90% gold with a total of .1867 Troy ounces of pure gold. Not a bad return on investment for a nickel. The coin is polished and scratched, so it's probably only worth it's melt value, but gold is gold
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Last Saturday it was raining pretty hard here in southern Vermont so rather than going detecting, I decided to go to the bank. It's been a long time since I've done a good coin roll hunt so I figured I'd try my luck. They only had $50 in halves, which turned out to be skunks. I decided to buy a box of nickels. Now, I almost always find foreign coins in any denomination when going through boxes, but never like the one I found Saturday. About 15 rolls into the box I hadn't found any keepers until I noticed an gold/brass color. It was the same diameter as the nickels but had raised print along its rim. I figured it was going to be a modern brass foreign coin or token. When I pulled it from the roll I was pretty shocked to see 1878 20 francs. I flipped it over and saw the Angel. Foreign gold coins are not my specialty, so l had to look it up. Turns out it's 90% gold with a total of .1867 Troy ounces of pure gold. Not a bad return on investment for a nickel. The coin is polished and scratched, so it's probably only worth it's melt value, but gold is gold
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Fabulous!
Haha, great find I imagine it has some type of numismatic premium. 
Maybe slightly over scrap, the problem is selling it for above spot. 
