Error World Found In Change Page

FOUND IN
CIRCULATION

These are the stories of people. Real people. People like you and me. People who check their pocket change. People who check YOUR pocket change. People who get rolls of coins from banks to check. People who look over your shoulder in the supermarket to see what you got in change. People who look constantly on the ground when they walk. People who... well, you get the idea. These are the stories of what is being found today by people who are diligent enough to actually LOOK for it. All finds do not have to be BIG. Small finds can be exciting too. Anyone wishing their story to be told, please e-mail me with the story, and hopefully a picture of the find. Thank you.

DATE	MEMBER	STORY	PHOTO

10-18-03	starjb	Today, I received a 2003-P Sac Dollar in my change. It came out of a USPS stamp vending machine after I had put a $20 bill in. I like going to get Sac dollars from the post office. I live in Mesa, AZ. A long way for coin that hasn't been released for general circulation. The coin is in Mint Uncirculated condition with just a couple of contact marks.
08-03-03	Chuck	HI ALL. JUST WANTED TO TELL YA OF A SURPRISE i GOT. I GOT A BOX OF PENNIES{25.00} AT ONE OF MY BANKS YESTERDAY. AFTER GOING THROUGH THEM THIS IS WHAT I COME UP WITH-1869 INDIAN{1} 1909 {7} 1909vdb{8} 1909s{1} 243 FROM 1910-1958 . ALL GOOD OR BETTER GOING TO TRY TO GET MORE BOXES MONDAY. THEY COME UP FROM PHILLY SEE YA CHUCK
07-15-03	Smitty	A longtime good friend of mine dropped by yesterday and shared the following with me, which iterates that you find em where you find em lol. My Buddy works for a heating and air cond company. His brand new service truck was dusty from the place where he lives, so he went to the carwash to give it a quick hosin'. He walked over to the change machine to get some quarters (while doing so, he found a jeff nickle and pocketed it), but found the smallest bill he had was a 5, so he decided not to wash the truck as opposed to a fistfull of quarters in his pocket lol. Walking back to his truck, he looked down and saw somthing small & coinlike. Much to his surprise, and mine, it was a seated liberty 1853 half-dime. It had the upper right quadrant crushed a bit, (old old damage) so it was just a bit out-of-round. Without the damage, I would say it was about a VG+ most letters in liberty were visible, but some gone and the others worn. It wasn't bent at least lol. I placed it in a 2x2 for him and he went his way back to work a very happy man!!! lmao. The nickle was just an everyday common modern coin. PROOF! Any of us could find anything, anywhere at anytime me thinks lol
03-27-03	Brian Alan Balise <n1tot>	Went to the bank tonite after work to get some rolls of pennies, I was bored and figured I'd do some hunting. Not expecting to find much, (maybe a die crack or two) I came across a 1994 in really good shape. Not thinking much of it, I decided to flip it top to bottom. Not sure what I was looking at, I took another penny and flipped it. Sure enough, a rotated die almost 180 deg.I guess hunting still pays off and errors are still out there. The only reason I flipped the coin , is because somewhere in the back of my mind I had read an article years ago about someone finding an 1994 cent rotated die. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. (KEEP HUNTING,YOU NEVER KNOW!!!!!!!!!)
04-27-01	Brian Jorgensen <Jorgy>	My coin find is a new listing with John Wexler identified as a 1969s Counterclash Reverse WCLR-001. The way I ended up finding the 4 examples I have is a bit weird. Whenever I go to the local coin shop, my son and I always look through his Lincoln cent album and pick out a date or two from the 40's through the early 70's that are of a lower grade. He is trying to eventually get Whitman cent album #2 in all BU. When we looked on this trip, we picked out 1969s and 1974d. I try to get a roll or two of the date so he can get his higher grade coin and I can search through the roll for anything I might like. For some reason I decided to get 2 rolls of the 69's (wish I had picked up the other 2 rolls they had). When I searched through them I found the coins. After I got done searching the 69's rolls and was putting them in the container I keep my UNC rolls in I noticed that I already had a roll of 69's. For some reason my son and I had forgot to put one in his cent album when we got the first roll about a month before. I remembered I had gotten them after I saw the roll. If we had put one in his album I never would have gotten these 4 coins. I was not sure what I had so I started asking on EW and RCC about them. Laz (James) pointed me to both John Wexler and James Wiles. Dermestid (Mike D.) also suggested I contact John Bordner, President of NCADD and attributer for John Wexler, which I did. John B. emailed me and arranged for me to send him one of the coins. James Wiles replied and also forwarded my email to Mike Ellis and Mike emailed me so off went another of the four I have. Through many emails to both Mike Ellis and John Bordner both have helped me learn allot about more than just this particular coin. Johns determination, as you can see in the article in the March 6 isssue of NN page 46, is that it is the first known or listed (in the Wexler files at least, don't know about any others) Counter Clash Reverse . I want to thank all those I named for the considerable help they have given me. It has been quite a fun and learning experience. BTW, I only started collecting when the State quarters came out so I am pretty much a newbie and this shows that "they are still out there to be found" so keep looking.
11-14-00	Shawn Havery AKA sph1577	Last summer I got a job as a cashier at a local grocery store, a few blocks away from my house back in Sarasota, FL. It was a pretty menial job, but was nicely highlighted by the large volume of coins I got to go through every day as I completed transactions with various customers. I got really good at checking coins quickly, mostly for wheat cents and the like, with only a minor reduction in transaction speed. Other than the many wheat cents, various pre-1960 coins, and very rarely a silver dime I traded out of my register, I only on occasion ended up with something really interesting. One time I actually found a 1991-S proof quarter among the quarters in my tray, which made me laugh out loud, trying to imagine how it managed to end up in circulation (I still have the "mishandled proof"). I also found a minor broadstruck 1997-P quarter. But my greatest discovery by far was a die adjustment strike cent, which I discovered in a roll of 2000 cents when I was pouring out the coins into my tray. I didn't know that much about errors at the time, and all I knew was that it looked like a blank planchet cent, though not quite as blank. I didn't think it could be particularly valuable, but it was very special to me as it was the first (and, so far, only) true, obvious error coin which I had found in circulation. About a month and a half ago I decided to send it off to PCI, even though at the time I was pretty sure in my mind that it wouldn't even be worth the $8.00 grading fee, but it would be nice to get it certified as it was my little baby. When I got it back, it graded MS64RD, which I was glad to see since I had ended up touching the coin a few times when I had recovered it. It annoyed me that it came back as a "NO DATE", though the date is almost impossible to see (I'm still working on it, but I know it's there!). I know it's a 2000 because it was in a new roll of 2000 cents (unfortunately I didn't note the mintmark, but it was probably Philadelphia mint). But I was confused at the phrase "Set Up Piece" which also appeared on the holder. I was worried, perhaps they thought this coin was a "set up" that someone created on purpose? When I called PCI and talked to a grader there, he explained that this type of coin (also known as a "die trial" or "die adjustment strike") resulted when a new die is being tested for the proper striking pressure, and this of course was one of the pieces minted with the striking pressure set too low. I got excited, how could something like this have gotten out? They would have benn struck before the circulation coins, so I figured it should be quite easy to destroy all of them. At that point I knew I had something special. When I asked a couple error experts how much it could be worth (namely, Rich Schemmer and Mike Byers), they both told me the same thing: about $50! I was overjoyed. I couldn't believe that I had found a coin in my cash register tray that I could trade out for just a cent, and it was worth fifty dollars! Of course I can never sell it, as it holds a very special place in my heart as my first true, obvious error coin which I personally found in circulation (well, technically I guess I probably caught it just before it entered circulation, but that kind of makes it even more special). It also helped me a great deal to get further into mint error collecting, and I will treasure this beautiful coin for the rest of my life. I have created an ErrorWorld photo album for my die trial cent, which you can view here: Please let me know what you think. Thanks!
11-03-00	Basilkay	Went to the bank today. I saw in the teller's tray a bunch of Kennedy Halves.With glee I said I want them all. When I got home,much to my surprise, I found a 1970 S Silver Proof in the bunch. It is in V/G condition except for the discoloration.
11-03-00	Acom_m	I got 5 rolls of sac dollars from the mint today and was looking at them, and one of them a denver mint one the obverse is fine but the reverse never got struck it looks like a blank then the one next to it in the roll the obverse is blank and the reverse is fine.