shuck_pocket_change_article Recently ... I was notified of a in-circulation find that I'm fairly certain even I would have noticed. In an email from my brother in the Richmond, Virginia, area, he noted that a co-worker had discovered an unusual coin in his pocket change. A U.S. coin, but one that didn't quite look right. I contacted the finder, and he provided me with this narrative (slightly edited for publication):

He sent a couple of snapshots of this well-worn coin to my brother, who forwarded them to me.

Wondering how this nearly 150-year old coin, minted in the fourth year of a denomination last produced in 1889, found it's way into a Chick-fil-A cash drawer leads to interesting speculation.

We will probably never know why this coin ended up at a Chick-fil-A, but it seems likely it passed through a couple of hands, and possibly a bank or two, on its way to a new home as the star coin of a one- coin collection.

Perhaps the most intriguing question is wondering whether there were others like this from the original source, also placed into circulation and now waiting to be found. And as unlikely as this last possibility might be and though I live a long way from Virginia, I think I'll be looking a little more closely at my pocket change from now on

To read the complete article, see:Pocket Change Yields an Unusual Find(www.coinlink.com/News/us-coins/pocket-change-yields-an-unusual-find/)