What was your strangest find in a box of coins? Any denomination.

[24k dreams]

Also, what was your most valuable find?

 

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[24k dreams]

My strangest find was a 1902 Great Britain penny in a box of halves.

 

[drewbaccas]

A clear plastic disc the size of a dime

 

[mAGma]

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[Styfflin]

Probably my crispy Nazi 10 Reichspfennig in a box of nickels - http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/coin-roll-hunting/332932-inglorious-reichspfennig.html. What a long, strange journey it must have been to get to me.

 

[SilverFace]

Ive found my share of strange foreign coins in nickel and cents rolls including a couple of light weight aluminum (I think) foreign coins from somewhere in the middle east or Africa in nickel rolls. I also found some type of pfennig coin from 1950 in a box of nickels. I looked it up online and found out there is a valuable type of this coin but that's not the one I had. And I remember when I found my first magicians half I thought that was kinda strange because I hadn't even heard of them before. And finding an ASE (my avatar) earlier this year was strange because even though it has a $1 denomination it is a 1 oz silver bullion coin and was never intended to be used in circulation at face value. But I got that loose from a teller in a bank envelope and not in a box obviously.

My most valuable single coin I've found is still the 1899 Morgan I found a few years ago that's probably worth about $130 in its condition. My single most value find of coins from a bank at one time was finding 3 solid cwr's of Walkers and Bens from a bank a couple of years ago. I remember silver was about $43 oz then so the intrinsic value of the coins at that time was around $960 or so from what I remember. It will be hard for me to ever top those two finds in terms of value but u never know with this hobby. I remember just a month or two before I joined here some guy found an entire box of Walkers. If any of u haven't seen that post with his pics of stacks and stacks of Walkers u should check it out. Now that was amazing!

H$H!

 

[BuffaloBoy]

a piece of wood that took up the space of about 10-12 dimes in a brinks dime roll 2 years ago.

 

[jr98119]

guitar picks
Rileyboy

 

[mark1982]

A stick of gum not in a roll but in a sealed box of dimes.

 

[24k dreams]

A stick of gum not in a roll but in a sealed box of dimes.

Lol that's pretty funny!

 

[BigWaveDave]

as a kid I found a barber dime in a roll of pennies.... 1903 I think. it wasn't dirty, as are some clad dimes you find sometimes. also found a few of those Lincoln smoking a pipe types...familiar w/ those? I don't know the back story on them, I just know I cant part w/ them.

 

[twiasp]

Keyring the exact thickness and circumference as a half dollar, guitar pics, and the oddest was a dateless shield nickel in a bag of Eisenhower dollars.

 

[Will45]

A oblong zinc colored penny in the spot of 2 nickels in a sealed box.

 

[usandthem]

I found the back of a Swiss made watch in a roll of pennies once.

 

[Dozer D]

Not in a box, but reject tray on a counting machine I found a thin 925 sterling silver necklace chain (about 16 inches), no clasp, but still silver. Coins are .900, this chain is .925; much purer than AG coins.

 

[GlenDronach]

In one roll of halves, I got a Pope Pius XII Vatican coin (silver).

In a roll of pennies a week or two later, I got a silver Hindu token that is given as offerings at temples

Weird that my interesting finds came within weeks of each other and both religious. Happily, both silver too!

 

[24k dreams]

In one roll of halves, I got a Pope Pius XII Vatican coin (silver).

In a roll of pennies a week or two later, I got a silver Hindu token that is given as offerings at temples

Weird that my interesting finds came within weeks of each other and both religious. Happily, both silver too!

And a week after that you became a priest? Lol

Nice finds its almost like a sign? Or just luck?

 

[silvermagnet]

accordselux: i found a pope pius token on the beach but was very delapidated.

 

[GlenDronach]

And a week after that you became a priest? Lol

Nice finds its almost like a sign? Or just luck?

With the events of the last few months, it may have been.

I've got to treat religion like Pokemon, apparently. Gotta catch em all! If I practice enough, I'm bound to get the right one!

Next up, hopefully, is Zoroastrianism.

accordselux: i found a pope pius token on the beach but was very delapidated.

Weird... They seem pretty odd to find in the wild, huh? I'll grab a pic in a bit.

 

[hotrod]

I don't really know
My weirdest thing was cotton balls shoved in the middle of the roll.
My most valuable would be a 1913 s type 2 Buffalo