Coin Roll and Pocket Change finds?!

Hello there! I've found some pretty interesting stuff circulating in Illinois, what have other people been finding? I don't have much money so I constantly go to the bank and get rolls of pennies to search through. Cheap, fun, and I make some money selling the pre-82 US copper cents as bullion. I've found about 250 wheat cents, including 2 1909s and a 1916D (35m made I think). I've also found about 150 Canadian pennies which I collect just because. I've also found all of the unflipped coins in rolls, and the flipped coins were in pocket change. I have lots of Canadian nickels and quarters, but nothing special to picture. I don't think you want to see 250 wheat cents either.

 I found this huge error (135º off centre) in pocket change two weeks ago ...

            

  UK ten pence 1992 and both sides should be ↑↑ vertical. Today I got the second coin above in change - a 1995 Isle of Man twenty pence with a farm machine on it. Shame UK went decimal in 1971 as no longer any chance of finding silver coins in pocket change anymore. You are so lucky in Illinois  

Citation: TheShrimpVendorI have lots of Canadian nickels and quarters, but nothing special to picture...

Hey don't you work at a Corner Bakery?

You're lucky to work at a register because you can always find silver change. Lucky for me I've found around 10-15 Wartime nickels from the bank but your luck doubles at the register.

I'm applying for a job at Trader Joe's and hopefully I'll get the job and hopefully I'll find some nice silver or foreign.

I've always wanted to find a rotated coin... I spend forever trying to find pennies like that. I'm quite jelly. And I like the shape of that Isle of Man coin, are they expensive to purchase? And yeah, I work at a Panera Bread, it's basically the same thing. I found the Indian penny and the 61 quarter there. Some other interesting stuff too. People often try to pay me with Candian nickels and eurocents, so I normally just accept the money and swap them with my pocket change before I put it in the drawer. I even accepted a Namco token, not knowing what it was lol. Hope you get the job, register work is really fun! I also gotta message you about your trip and find out how that went! Been super busy lately.

Citation: TheShrimpVendorI've always wanted to find a rotated coin... I spend forever trying to find pennies like that. I'm quite jelly. And I like the shape of that Isle of Man coin, are they expensive to purchase?

 

  I don't know about purchase, as I got mine in change, so it cost me face value of 20p only. Also I forgot to mention the other coin I got today - see below. It is also an error - and is a 2002 one pound which is 45º from vertical. The reverse three lions design is correct for the year, as is the edge lettering. Except - it is a forgery; it is too weakly struck. Shame you have no coins on your exchange list, as you could have it, as part of an exchange - unless forgeries don't count!


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Citation: ZacUKThe reverse three lions design is correct for the year, as is the edge lettering. Except - it is a forgery; it is too weakly struck.
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Another way to check if it's a forgery is if the lettering is crudely drawn. Actually I shouldn't be saying anything; I've never been to the UK before.

 You are correct - crudely drawn is an indication; which is what I meant by weakly struck (the lettering and also both sides). Here are three coins for comparison - top is the forgery, second is a rare 1988, and lower is a better-struck 2009. So that last coin makes me think the Royal mint have changed their way of putting edge lettering on; maybe that also applies to the two pound coin as well; there are many on eBay where part letters are for sale, such as the edge letter of the Guy Fawkes coin REMEMBER REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER where one or more R are poorly struck and look like a P letter.

                           

I really need to find a way to let go of my coins... I'll try to find some to exchange. 2,500 more pennies to look through today.

Nice finds, who (or how) do you sell your bullion pennies to? and how much do you sell them for?

  You really need to start swapping, its a lot of fun. Just buy some bulk coins to get started, and put an add on craigslist for buying world coins, that can be a pain though.
  I am sure you can put some wheat's on your swap list

i found this 1959 today,odd lookin  for still being in such a red color ???

In stead of a 2 eurocent coin, I found a one cent USA 1951 in my change.

Today I was happy to find these in my change:

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I love that the Royal Canadian Mint makes all sorts of fun and interesting coins-- almost everyday I find a treat in my change  

My brother got this in his change a few weeks back in Morrisons. I don't think it's actually legal tender, and if I remember correctly £2 coins only came back into circulation with a newer design later in the 90's in bi-metallic form; this is like the older stuff.. I want it from him but I won't pay more than the face value.

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Citation: eminemI love that the Royal Canadian Mint makes all sorts of fun and interesting coins-- almost everyday I find a treat in my change  

Yeh, but that makes them not special (although I admit it does make my Canadian roll searching much more interesting).    

Just made my first Silver Quarter find in a roll... 1952. It's my third Canadian Silver Quarter but the first I have found! Was very cool.

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Citation: aswitzerJust made my first Silver Quarter find in a roll... 1952. It's my third Canadian Silver Quarter but the first I have found! Was very cool.

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Cool, pretty low mintage, though.

Reviving  

I search through tonnes of penny roles because as of February 4th the penny will officially be gone from circulation in Canada

I've found coins from the Bahamas, Bermuda, Taiwan; euros from Greece, France, and others.

I've found wheat pennies from late 30's early 40s, Canadian pennies from 1930s 40s 50s and 60s
Today I found a beautiful UNC red 1958 penny, wonder how it kept its condition for so long.

I've also found several varieties of Canadian pennies such as the 1965s, 2006s and I found a 2009 non-magnetic coin,1 out of over 400 other 2009 pennies I got.  

There has been a strange lack of 2012 pennies for some reason... I'm talking an average of 2 out 500 pennies...

I found I silver dime recently.

I used to find heaps when we had the large style coins.  I used to find shillings, sixpences, florins in my change instead of 5, 10 and 20 cent coins, I used to find australian and fijian coins as well.  But since we've switched to the reduced sized coins in 2006 I've found absolutely nothing other than normal coins. It sucks!!

Citation: neilithicI used to find heaps when we had the large style coins.  I udes to find only shillings, sixpences, florins in my change instead of 5, 10 and 20 cent coins, I sed to find australian and fijian coins as well.  But since we've switched to the reduced sized coins in 2006 I've found absolutely nothing other than normal coins. It sucks!!

Yeah here the mint has been aggressively taking out all coins older than 2003, especially for the nickels dimes and quarters. And now the pennies will be gone  

Starting February 4th the only fun will be commemorative quarters  

Good lord, just read what I typed.  I must be more tired than I thought, that's barely literate.  Oh well it is Monday morning over here.

 I have had no commemorative UK £2 coins for ages, now two come along at once in one day; and spookily they both have a design with hands. Still not seen any 2013 coins yet, including the £2 coins.

                                            

  Olympic Handover (Beijing/London) 2008 and Florence Nightingale 2010, both in pocket change.

I found this in a roll of quarters

Citation: ALLRED1950I found this in a roll of quarters

What is it?

It's a blank with the edge rolled. It's called a planchet; it's a US quarter that did not get in the coin press

I'll post my most recent finds, I got a St. Helena & Ascension £1 from a roll and some good condition bridges £ pieces, I have just got another WWF 50, I got an Isle of Man 20 p with a Subaru Impreza and an Escort Cosworth, Isle of Man 2p with cyclists on, and a St. Helena 1p

1921 penny, two pennys from the 1930s (can't remember exact date) from one penny roll... that roll was 1940s-1960s with the two 30s and 1921 penny inside... rigged roll much. (Thanks CIBC...I think lol)

1917 25 cent Newfoundland (silver)

two silver dimes.

all from Canada.

you will find a lot of 5 bani coins (Romanian) in Canadian penny rolls

2 euro coin...

Arabic coins (mostly UAE)

Caribbean coins
- Aruban, Bermudan, others...

I've found pence in my change as well

Well, as a citizen of a EU country I come foreign coins across all the time!

While on a vacation in Panama some years ago (2005 I think) I found a 1/10 balboa 1962 silver coin when buying my 1st beer of the trip. It was a great trip, for sure.

I get about a million and one special quarters in my change, and have found at least 2 2014 Sochi loonies thus far. (Not to mention a few commemorative nickels). When the Olympics were actually happening I swear the Canadian banks deliberately recirculated a ton of Olympics and other special quarters, because I found about a gazillion when I kept asking for things to be changed into quarters during that time. I still find them, just not quite as often (and not the same ones -- lately I've been finding a lot of old 1999/2000 quarters, or provincial quarters).

Found just random lil red coins, some USA cents, Canadian cents, UK pennies, and Irish 1 pingins.
All them from coin bags from bank or in change from sps instead of the usual euro lil red ones.
Nothing else...