Grandsons find today

[Gold Buddy]

My grandson works at a convenience store and today opened a new roll of pennies . His eye caught this right away. Boy he's a happy camper tonight.
He is 22 yr. old and has come up with other old coins but not as exciting as this. Most young people would not notice.

 

[doc holiday]

Very nice--keep him interested.

 

[mudpuppy]

Really cool! Sharp eye there on that kid, good thing Grandpa taught him to pay attention to things......I bet you have him checking 'edges' of coins too for silver!

I tried to pass off a bunch of Chucky Cheese tokens at the local convenience store a few months back...told the Immigrant guy behind the counter they were the new '5 dollar' US coins with Hillary Clinton on them...nearly had him too, he really looked at them hard, then back at me.....If I could have kept a straight face, I bet I could of pulled it off!....
Mud

 

[Gold Buddy]

Thanks mud. Like your wrigting

 

[ken ward]

That young man has an good eye. No telling what he can find in change working at a place like that... KEN. Ind.

 

[DiggerODirt]

LMAO

innochio

 

[gravityrulz]

Gold Buddy, great find by your grandson!

Mud, I'll be grinning the rest of the day thinking about your story. Several 'punny' comments come to mind but I'll let you guys make up your own.

The coin knowledge of the General Public isn't very good, I'm thinking all the recent designs introduced on the cent, nickel, quarter, and dollar coins make it to where folks pay even less attention to what's on the coin.

They will notice something that is a different size, I don't know how many times I've had the 'what is this?' look from cashiers when I give them half dollars, several times I had to tell them they were half dollars, not dollar coins.

 

[PSS1963]

Gold Buddy, great find by your grandson!

Mud, I'll be grinning the rest of the day thinking about your story. Several 'punny' comments come to mind but I'll let you guys make up your own.

The coin knowledge of the General Public isn't very good, I'm thinking all the recent designs introduced on the cent, nickel, quarter, and dollar coins make it to where folks pay even less attention to what's on the coin.

They will notice something that is a different size, I don't know how many times I've had the 'what is this?' look from cashiers when I give them half dollars, several times I had to tell them they were half dollars, not dollar coins.

I know what you mean . . . as a coin collector I was a long-time advocate of design changes (both bored by and embarrassed by the "hall of dead presidents"). However, they made so many varieties in such a short span of time, it was just overwhelming and confusing. Now I just ignore it.

-pete

 

[riverdan]

that's nice, IH's are my super finds in my book, that's a beauty !!

 

[Dirtdigger33]

Very nice find. Tell him to keep on looking. I used to work retail. I found a few good coins.
Many wheats (1919, 1934, 1936, 1939, just to name a few)
Standing liberty quarter ( no date)
1943 merc dime
Some silver Washington quarters
1961 Franklin half
1964 Kennedy half
1965-1970 halts (4 of them)
Silver Canadian quarters (2 of them 1958,196
Quite a few silver Rosies (most common silver coin found)
Many Eisenhower dollars (13 at one time in the drawer, only bought 7, should have bought them all)
A $1 silver certificate
A Florida quarter silver proof
A 24k gold plated Connecticut state quarter
Many foreign coins

It always amazed me what people would spend. One guy even came in on my day off and bought cigarettes with silver quarters. Told the lady at the register that they were silver, but had to have his cigarettes. She bought them all out of the drawer and then told me about it the next day. Wished I would have been at work instead of off. Weird to say that, but I loved finding old coins and paying face value for them.