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Doesn't have to be the oldest or rarest. Just a coin you'd think you would have never found. For example, I have never found a 1970 Kennedy half yet but have found some Barber halves and a Seated Liberty half, but finding a 1970 half for me would be cool. I think Barbers and SL are rarer in the wild, but OK, YMMV. The coolest coin I have found via CRH'ing has to be a 1996-S 90% Kennedy half-dollar. I don't know. Something about a contemporary 90% coin that was issued in limited production that turns up in a coin roll.

Lately, I'd have to say a 1943 dime from Newfoundland in a BWR of dimes. It is by far the rarest coin I own at about half the mintage of a 1916-D Merc.
But about 20+ years ago I got a 1936-S Rhode Island Tercentenary commemorative half from a local bank. They had no idea what it was and I got it for face value. Probably the coolest single find I've ever had!

While my boys and I had the coin roll searching bug earlier this year, we found an 1893 columbian commemorative half dollar in a box of halves. We we started this we figured we would eventually find some walking liberty's but never did. So to find something much older was quite a shock. A definite keeper for my sons collection!

I have found 3 "love token" dimes over the past 5 years, the oldest 1858, and the newest 1875. These are very interesting because soemone personalized the back side wtih styalized initials.
I also got a silver nazi coin from 1943 with the swaztica (sp?) and Von Hindenberg's picture --- that may not be a rare coin, but it was an interesting coin to find in circulation as a dime ---- who passed that on without noticing?

I found a 2008 S dime proof. I was keeping it in my wallet for good luck, but I lost it

Honest ABE smoking a funny looking cigar

Coolest coin found- Wisconsin extra leaf (low) quarter. Let me add one that I'm shocked that I haven't seen in a long time- I go through lots of boxes of pennies and nickels. I've found plenty of war nickels and a few Buffalos. Yet I haven't seen a single 1943 steel cent, and they made over a billion of them. Also, it is not like the steel cents are valuable at all. I guess there are some things that are hoarded and just not put back into circulation.

Recyclersteve wrote: Yet I haven't seen a single 1943 steel cent, and they made over a billion of them. Also, it is not like the steel cents are valuable at all. I guess there are some things that are hoarded and just not put back into circulation.

The also get stuck on coin counter magnets we find a few there.

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