Half New Sheqel

This was a present from a customer at work. We were chatting about her accent and she mentioned she was just visiting from Israel and I mentioned I'd only just gotten some coins from there the week before and she said she'd give me a few more. This is one of them.

1948 Wheat Penny

This one was in the same roll as the 1958 below- it's from San Francisco, California originally.

1958 Wheat Penny

Found this one and the next one in a roll of pennies at work. I have no idea where our coin rolls come from- it's like a time traveler's house or something.

CTA Fare Token

This is an old Chicago Bus Fare token. I'm only going to scan one side because it's exactly the same on both. Totally love the little radioactive shape cut out in the middle. It's pretty funny I just pulled this out of the box because I was just in Chicago earlier this year and now they use those little magnetic strip cards. I was totally the person always putting the card in the machine wrong and holding up the entire line. Apparently tokens stopped being used in June 1999 so this was made some time before that. Siiiiigh.

1942 One Penny

 Out of all of the coins I have I think this one may be the prettiest- as far as I'm concerned. I love the color, I love the size of it- cause this is actually a pretty big coin- the weathering. It's also a weird coin because it doesn't have Elizabeth II on it. She's on so many coins, in so many countries it's weird to think there was someone on those coins before her. I think I've got four coins with George VI on them.

1976 50 New Pence

This is a heptagon. Yeah, I had no idea what word that was either. But apparently this shape lets the coin roll freely and go in machines better. This size isn't legal anymore- they've switched to a smaller 50p.

1952 Wheat Penny

A 1952 D wheat penny, all the way from Denver, Colorado. I have no idea whats up with who delivers the coins to my store. Its a weird day when I can't find at least one wheat penny.

2006 1 Jiao

This coin is from the same nice lady as who gave me the 2003 Yuan. I hope she's doing well back in China.

2003 1 Yuan

This is a Chinese coin that has a sort of cute story. I've never been to China, though it looks really lovely. I was working the other week and a customer was in the store buying a lot before she had to go back to her teaching position in China. I mentioned the coin collection and she gave me two to add to it. It's worth about .13 cents and it's one of the few still live coins I have in my collection.