Seriously - How does this coin from 1879 end up in a box of pennies?

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I was searching through a box of pennies tonight and found this 1879 1 kreuzen coin from Austria.

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Isn't this a crazy find? How does a coin like this end up in a box of pennies?

This is easily the oldest coin - foreign or domestic - that I have found CRH.

Have you found an older coin CRH this year?
 

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I found a 1854 French 10 centime in a half dollar roll. It is so slick and the date is barely legible, its not even worth $0.50 but a neat find nonetheless.
 

DustDevilMarc said:
I was searching through a box of pennies tonight and found this 1879 1 kreuzen coin from Austria. <img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1067547"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1067546"/> Isn't this a crazy find? How does a coin like this end up in a box of pennies? This is easily the oldest coin - foreign or domestic - that I have found CRH. Have you found an older coin CRH this year?
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Same way busted half dollars end up in teller trays. People are stupid. Some one found a gold coin in a box of pennies a year or two ago.
 

Never ask why but instead say "Today is my lucky day."

Very nice find, and the tale that can go with it is worth telling.

Rascal
 

I dump lots of coins back into circ - Buffalos, IH's, foreigns (I dont collect 'em) etc, in hopes of inspiring future collectors.
 

I found an Austrian 1 Kreuzen in a CWR
Mine was crusted over and needed a few days in vinegar.

Many people throw away their pennies, few still look at their change carefully.

Enjoy your find!
 

I've done extensive research on this for you, and will answer the "how" part of your question.

Well that there coin was owned by an austrian by the name of Von Scheises. Herr Scheises, was a simple man who happened to have the Von name. He was beat up and mugged on a frequent basis, as were most Vons back in that day in Austria as hordes of marxist-leninist proletariat would commonly assault the Vons. 'Von' preceeding a name was a mark of luxory, class prentioniousness and such. But this man, he had enough of austria one day and went to britian with only the clothes on his back and a few coin in his pocket.

Unfortunately, upon arriving there he found that he could not speak english and was very hard to find employement. He eventually he slipped one stormy night and lost all his coins down a sewer drain.

The next morning, the coin had drifted to the hood. not just any hood, but bad birmingham, the dirtiest city in england at the time. The coin remained burried in soot for another 40 years, until the power of erosoion and stuff collasped the brickwork around the drain system. By chance, a small boy happened to pick up the coin and conspired to pass it off as a penny or small denomination. The trick worked, he bought some stuff that is irrelevant to this tale, and the coin passed hands to the man working that day, Sir Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill. Mister dope himself. He held onto this coin in his personal collection until loosing it in a bet against FDR around 1944. FDR wasn't a man who cared about physical assets, so he tossed it out one day whenever he was smoking some cigarettes out near his polio resort.

Fast foreworeward to 1973, a pioneer metal detecting enthusiast finds the coin. As he is walking, he is unfortunately confused with a wanted man, and goes to jail for tresspassing and theft. Upon getting out of jail, he drops the coin on a New York City side walk.

A stock broker finds it, has it framed, then has a divorce, the wife wants the coin, so does he. Murder-suicide. Boom. All over this accursed coin, that in all reality isn't even worth that much. Years later, the child of this whack family happens to find the coin, sells it to the pawnshap, and they realize the coins worthless so they decide to use the newly installed coin counters, and back then, they were pretty bad at filtering foriegn currencies.

Then, the coin sat in the valts of brinks for years and years and years and years..... YEARS. Until 2014, where Cent roll after cent roll had gone through, it was stuck in one little cent roll.

It just so happens that you, dawg DustDevilMarc, were the individual who happened to go to the right bank at the right time and order the right box of cents, and in this box, you found the coin in question. This is the story of how, why, if. This is up to you if you choose to believe it. The question is..... What will the history of this coin tell when you're done with it?
 

BuffaloBoy said:
I found a 1854 French 10 centime in a half dollar roll. It is so slick and the date is barely legible, its not even worth $0.50 but a neat find nonetheless.
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Small world. I found the same coin in basically the same condition a few weeks back. And I am in the southern Canadian parries. This wasn't in a coin roll. It was laying out back behind an old rail road bunk house. A guy that I used to work with told me that he went into a bank once and asked the teller if they had any old coin rolls. She came back with a bunch of nickle rolls from the twenties, which is a fairly hard to find coin around here (from that era). I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or get angry, lol. I think that I just sat there and said "wow" and stared at him, lol.
 

NWMP said:
Small world. I found the same coin in basically the same condition a few weeks back. And I am in the southern Canadian parries. This wasn't in a coin roll. It was laying out back behind an old rail road bunk house. A guy that I used to work with told me that he went into a bank once and asked the teller if they had any old coin rolls. She came back with a bunch of nickle rolls from the twenties, which is a fairly hard to find coin around here (from that era). I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or get angry, lol. I think that I just sat there and said "wow" and stared at him, lol.
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Yeah, Buff boy and I have been in contact about this. I found the exact same one in a roll of my halfs, even though we are not near one another.011.jpg
 

Crazy cool coin man!

Today's the day! ~Mel Fisher
 

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