Heres a challenge for you , where is the most unusual place that you found a coin in your collection and do you still have a soft spot for it and tell people about it.
Metal detecting finds are included!

Ah, yes it was some 39 years ago! I was 10 years old and living on Cyprus and when visiting Salamis saw a bit of something on a berm on the side of the cleared old Roman road as it came into town. It was rather worn and oxidized but turned out (as I found out 30 years later) to be a nummus of Justinian I. Still have it though should not admit to it as I guess it may be contraband these days...

Well I think up to now dave has the most profit from a coin record buying a coin for 50p that is worth around £300.
Bet your eyes nearly popped out and you started shaking finding that one!
Just shows it can be done!

I was repleying to the post above yours 1993 j h sixpence post ,it has a cat value around £300 in fine
I have never been that lucky have picked up coins for £2 and sold for £34 , which ain't bad!

Peter,I have never seen an 1893 Jubilee Head coin of any denomination.

One of the most interesting finds I did make was a few years ago.I was helping out my boss's twin brother in Auckland.I found a British 1723 SSC 1/- with the French Coat-of-Arms at the date.I ended up landing it for NZ$125.I still have this coin.

Another interesting coin I picked up was just over 2 years ago.It was a New Hebrides silver 100 Francs Essai (pattern coin).It was a coin that I recognised.I had seen it in the collection of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand,who decided to sell off some of their collection.There was a collection of New Zealand 19th. Century traders' currency tokens that was up for auction.I wrote a letter to the paper criticising the R.B.N.Z. for wanting to sell their collection.In the end,my boss's twin brother bought this familiar coin.When I saw it,he & I were happy with a price of NZ$150 for it.

The New Hebrides coinage was issued by the French,but because the New Hebrides was an Anglo-French condominium,these coins are legitimate British Commonwealth issues.The New Hebrides became an independent British Commonwealth member state under the name 'Republic of Vanuatu'.

I also have a very worn British 1905 2/6 that still has the date legible,& I also have a British 1952 6d.,which is extremely hard to find.

Aidan.

I pick up a steven penny at a boot fair in hastings ( seems to be a hot spot for bargins ) for 13 quid, the penny is GVF+ and unrecorded. I also won a fartrhing on ebay 185I last 1 being roman, again unrecorded. But the most bizzare find must be a dog walk around carisbrooke castle on the isle wight, i found a charles ii halfpenny NF jet black with out a green spot on it.

When I was a 10 or 11 year old schoolboy in the 60s another boy suddenly produced a large copper disk from his pocket while we were walking home from school and started rolling it down the road. It looked like some sort of a paper weight but when it finally came to rest at the bottom of the hill it turned out to be a cartwheel twopence, sadly already badly disfigured by the undignified treatment its owner was inflicting on it. I had never seen such a huge copper coin before and no idea what it was but was already avidedly combing through every one's change and swapping them new coppers for Victorian and Edwardian ones. I told the boy it was a shame to destroy something that looked very much like a coin to me and which could be valuable but he didn't believe something so large could be a real coin. He had found it in a drawer or an attic at home and said there was another smaller one that he hadn't beaten up yet and he would give it to me, if I liked coins, since no one in his family cared about them. The next day he gave me a 1806 halfpenny in fine condition. At the time I couldn't figure out what this was either because it was bigger than circulation halpennies but smaller than a penny but I soon got hold of a book and identified both the halfpenny and the twopence. Even though it is not worth much I still treasure the halfpenny as it is the first coin I ever owned of a type that was no longer in circulation and awakened me to the idea of going further than just combing through change to acquire coins.

i found a 1933 1/2d in one of those 2p pushing machines in an arcade... it fell out with some 2p's at random lol
i found my favourate piece, my 1858 small date farthing at my dealers.. his book was using peck, therfore he didn't have the thing listed, £5 well spent lol

it is acctually in VF grade so i'm pleased

found some coins where i expected... just some unexpected coins
spent around £8 on a 600g of coins (just over 200) which is just usual foreign stuff, to mainly get bits for other countries
was researching a few of the silver bits and found i had a 1939 rhodesea 6D (200k minted) in EF thats a good £50-60 coin alone
another recent bulk buy, i got for another piece i wanted for my collection, about a 1uid its not much for 5-6 coins, i took photos of some old pennies, as edward pennies of 1908/9 wore to a differant colour. i was amazed to find when i uploaded the first picture i had a F169 1909 penny (where the 1 points to the tooth)

it was a lucky find like i said
http://www.omnicoin.com/user_view.aspx?id=ScottO <-- full omni collection

to hand it looks better, the odd dark part on obverse looks normal :/

speaking of lucky finds i missed 1 and probably my best
fair grade 1728 plumes sixpence... in a tin at my dealers... the price of the coins in this tin... 25p each

and today, netted a george III off centre strike halfpenny in fine grade sadly, its a good off centre sadly its the date that missed the coin (the exerge is only 1-2mm from the bottom of the coin)

I found a Barber Dime in an old hotel in the basement and it was dated 1915 and worn s badly it was barely worth anything except the silver content.