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Many of us know that Country puts a LOT of time and effort into the monthly tracking threads. And a LOT of us provide input into those threads. That's what makes all the coordination so useful - the fact that it represents a wide spectrum of finds from a wide spectrum of people, sorting a whole LOT of coins (about 2 and a quarter MILLION dollars sorted and reported).

So a few weeks back I was thinking, I wonder what sort of finds would stand out as the most elite? After some research into all the previous threads, considering how many of a certain type were found in relation to others, and watching this latest month's thread as it went along, I present to you what I call the "ELITE FINDS." Feel free to add your own if you consider it a "holy cow" find, or a "once in a lifetime" find... Dates of the finds are included so that you can look it up in the original thread and read about it. Hope you like it!

(INDIANS and LINCOLNS were not included in this, although there were undoubtedly some pretty elite finds among those types Indians are tracked here: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=136 and Lincolns are tracked here: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=263 ). So let's get on with what I did coordinate:

19TH CENTURY FINDS: 18
1801 Large cent hirbonzig 4/30
1838 Capped bust half dollar bamajoe 9/20
1854 Seated Liberty dime rainsonme 6/27
1857 Large cent zerocd 2/25
1867 Italy 10 centesimi computerjones 7/17
1883 V nickel zerocd 12/24
1885 V nickel txbullion 10/7
1891 Seated Liberty dime agcollector 2/13
1891 V nickel zerocd 2/9
1891 V nickel zigmeister 7/22
1895 Austria 2 heller zerocd 4/25
1896 V nickel brian0918 7/15
1899 Barber half amalekidad 2/5
1899-O Morgan dollar cecropiamoth 7/1
1899 V nickel fb101 3/10
1899 V nickel cwgii 6/18
1899 V nickel cwgii 8/9
1900 V nickel zigmeister 9/9

ALL BARBERS: 15
- four dimes
1907 rosco 5/19
1911 fb101 12/17
1912 gravybro 11/17
1914-D uderic 9/29
- one quarter
1901 dumpsterdiver 2/6
- eleven halves
1899 amalekidad 2/5
1900-O kestrelia
1902 12khz 5/27
1905 beauanderos 11/30
1906-O zerocd 3/23
1907 zerocd 3/23
1907-O zerocd 3/23
1908 zerocd 3/23
1909-O fb101 2/17
1913 uderic 9/2
1915S 12khz 1/28

LARGE CENTS: 2
1801 Draped bust hirbonzig 4/30
1857 Coronet zerocd 2/25

THREE CENT SILVER: 1
1861 ethon 12/14 (check it out here viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2146)

V NICKELS: 29 (but no reported shield nickels... curious
1883 zerocd 12/24
1885 txbullion 10/7
1891 zerocd 2/9
1891 zigmeister 7/22
1896 brian0918 7/15
1899 fb101 3/10
1899 cwgii 6/18
1899 cwgii 8/9
1900 zigmeister 9/9
1902 polishpunisher 12/27
1903 zerocd 1/16
1903 cwgii 3/8
1903 dakota1955 11/24
1903 agmoose 12/23
1904 chris6084 7/30
1905 zerocd 10/19
1905 zerocd 10/21
1906 zigmeister 6/1
1906 zerocd 10/20
1907 zerocd 2/9
1907 zerocd 3/4
1908 abc 9/19
1908 cwgii 10/28
1909 chris6084 11/20
1910 zerocd 1/7
1910 chris6084 9/19
1911 chris6084 8/20
1911 chris6084 9/19
1912 zerocd 2/9

SEATED LIBERTY DIMES: 2
1854 rainsonme 6/27
1891 agcollector 2/13

STANDING LIBERTY QUARTERS: 2
rainsonme found two dateless SLQ's on 1/23

OTHER HALVES: 13
1838 Capped bust bamajoe 9/20
1925 Stone Mountain agcoinhunter 7/23
1925 Stone Mountain agcoinhunter 8/6
1925 Stone Mountain bamajoe 9/10
1925 Stone Mountain agcoinhunter 9/11
1925 Stone Mountain bamajoe 9/30
1926 Sesquicentennial zerocd 3/23
1946 Booker T. Washington 12khz 1/28
1946 Booker T. Washington bamajoe 8/28
1946 Booker T. Washington amalekidad 9/4
1951 Booker T. Washington goodvend 1/22
1954 Booker T. Washington & George Washington Carver sdmarasso 11/9
1982 George Washington uderic 7/24

DOLLARS: 4
1899-O Morgan cecropiamoth 7/1
1923 Peace bamajoe 7/3
1924 Peace fb101 1/28
1924 Peace twocents 11/2

Add me in a 1911 barber dime 12/17

I just checked the Indian cent tracking thread and it looks like there were around 275 of those reported found this year. Compare that, which we consider a rather rare find (I've heard the estimate of one about every $10,000), to the numbers of the coins listed above...

That's an interesting and impressive list.

Thanks for the work Uthminsta.

Alot of them I give a big.......WOW!

I found a 1915 P barber half and a 21 P merc in bullion purchases if that counts

misteroman wrote:I found a 1915 P barber half and a 21 P merc in bullion purchases if that counts

Of course it counts... you found cool coins! But I would say it doesn't exactly qualify for this thread since it wasn't found while roll searching and/or at face value. That's kind of the way Country's threads go, so I'll stick with that.

1892-S barber half in a bag of 90% i bought at melt.

Nice summary for the year. I will say finding not only 1 but 3 Stone Mountain commerative halves was the highlight of my year. And seeing Bamajoe in a state away find 2 more in the same general time was amazing.

My best find was a 1900-O half.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kP9F3PYdQlU/TJyEkKMtlRI/AAAAAAAADYg/iLQ0alLlzMQ/s1600/barber.jpg

kestrelia wrote:My best find was a 1900-O half.

Wow, nice find. Was it found at face value?

Yup. I don't believe in buying coins for anything, but face ... nowhere near as fun.

kestrelia wrote:Yup. I don't believe in buying coins for anything, but face ... nowhere near as fun.

Hey man I'm glad you joined this forum. Your blog is the coolest! If I remember correctly I found it even before realcent.

This is a great idea uthminsta- maybe after awhile we could vote on find of the year...

Here's my 2011 contribution of 2 BARBER HALVES (1915-D and 1901) found in the same $500 box of halves on 1/6/11:

I found an 1896 V nickel, I believe in early 2010.

Cool list!

This is an amazing thread! If we have a more recent one I have not come across it yet.

Dang!!!!.......Wish I had something like one of these to report..... I gotta sort more!!!!

wow, thanks for putting the list together. more motivation.

Heres a fun thread to look at. Does anyone have a find since 2012 that would qualify?

I found a couple of V nickels a couple of years ago and one of them was on the end of a roll. I believe I shared a picture on the nickel tracking thread when it was found. I am sure there are many more finds we all had along the way. Thanks for sharing this "old" thread.

I wasn't yet an RC member when this thread was created, but it is a GREAT idea for a thread.

I dug back into the record books to see if I could find anything to add. On May 7, 2010 (before I joined this site) I found a 1970-D half (very tough date to find, since it was NIFC and 40% silver and very low mintage to boot). It was in $24 of halves received from one of the big name banks.

I know the other stuff was older, but I figured that the 70-D is actually worth more than some of the other coins found so I thought I'd include it in this thread.

Also I checked other years but couldn't find anything of note as yet.

1970-D is tough to find. I thought I would never find one so I bought one from a pawn shop to fill the hole in my book. I eventually did find one in a bag on 9-22-2015.
I am not a super sorter but have searched 49 bags and 18 boxes over the years, plus the loose halfs and misc small amount of rolls that I come across. In all of those just the one 1970-D.

Here are the finds that I have had that might qualify for this thread.

12-28-10 1893 Columbian half.
09-22-15 1970-D Kenney half.
09-29-16 1835 half dime. (found in a bag of half dollars)

I like it...Elite Finds! Here are mine that qualify, though they all pre-date this thread:

19th Century
1899 V nickel (11/26/05)

Barbers
1908-D quarter (11/28/06)
1906-O half (10/2/06)

V nickels
1899 (11/26/05)
1906 (10/14/06)
1912 (6/3/02)

Standing Liberty Quarters
Dateless D-mint (12/2/06)

Hey guys- impressive record keeping!