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Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:51 pm
by corky569
I was just wondering if anyone has ever found one. If so, how bout a story?

Re: Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:25 pm
by Elcid69
My grandfather would bring home a few rolls of pennies when he cashed his railroad pay check every Fri., I was 5 years old & it was 1952.
We saved them all in rolls as I remember. My mother and I moved to S.C. the next year and he retired from the railroad in 1965, I was a senior in school, the Eagle's we saved and others he kept sorting paid for 4 years of my college. FV 4.00+-

Re: Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:30 pm
by DRP270
Awesome stacking story success. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:09 am
by Coinage
I was wondering the same thing, but I presume finding one in the wild is next to nill.

Re: Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:00 pm
by lahmejoon
I believe someone on the TreasureNet forum posted that he or she found one in the wild about six months ago. I don't recall the story, but it's amazing if true.

Re: Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:01 pm
by rickygee
I found one with a Cessna 150 on the obverse. :o :lol: :lol:

Re: Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:30 pm
by DirtyFingers
IMO, you'll have a better chance at snagging a FEC with a discriminator than than you would by
sorting of any kind.

Not saying it couldn't happen, as all things can, but buying a lottery ticket might bring better results.

Re: Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:49 pm
by Diggin4copper
I found a large cent in a bag of halfs....

Re: Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:45 pm
by uthminsta
Well... how many 1857-1864 cents have even been found? Seems like finding ANY of those dates would be... huge.

Re: Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:45 pm
by Elcid69
Keep the Eagle flying........

Re: Flying Eagle Cent

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:26 am
by OtusLotus
I don't know if this counts, but I was at my girlfriend's Aunts house, and they gave me a few jars of coins to search thru.. and low and behold, there was an 1857 Flying Eagle cent. I handed it to her and said take good care of this. It would have been crazy to think that she could have gone to the nearest TD Bank and dumped it into Penny.