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> Check this out guys, Found something interesting in my 914
Ed_Turbo
post Aug 25 2019, 03:36 PM
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Wanted to share this interesting moment when I was working inside the cabin.

A 1975 penny hidden underneath the carpeting of my 1975 914.
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post Aug 25 2019, 04:01 PM
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Looks to have minimal wear, prolly been in there since then.

Put it back, acknowledging it as the good fortune talisman it be...
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post Aug 25 2019, 04:14 PM
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Nice find! For sport, I sift my pocket change looking for pre-1982 pennies.

Keep it - pre-1982 copper pennies are the only coins left in circulation actually worth more than face value. The nickel is close to par but hasn't tipped over $0.05 yet. The day is coming. Pre-1964 silver is worth more of course, but it's been over two decades since I found silver coinage in my pocket change.

New pennies are garbage zinc with a light plating of copper.

http://www.coinflation.com/unitedstates/

And we wonder why 914's are now trading for crazy prices. Prices aren't higher, the value of the dollar is lower. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)

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post Aug 25 2019, 05:01 PM
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I would put it back and document your car has a lucky penny installed since new !
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post Aug 25 2019, 05:42 PM
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Check its hell hole for rust before you put it back
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My dad rebuilt a early sixties sprint car recently and when he was finished he glued a nickel to the rear push bar. When I asked him why he did it he said "all the old racers did that. That way if they crashed the car it was always worth at least a nickel"
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post Aug 26 2019, 05:08 AM
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In my 67 bus I found a 1966 german nickel (pfennig) during the resto, US bus so it must have fell out of a workers pocket during production. Not worth anything but a cool find.
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post Aug 26 2019, 08:13 AM
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I keep the coins, business cards, pens, pencils and once even a .38 casing in a bag in the glove box. It's part the cars soul that I won't remove. Brings me good luck. I call it a Ju-Ju bag. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post Aug 26 2019, 01:26 PM
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I found a couple quarters in my car
Unfortunately, it was after I had removed the rusted outer driver's side long and I was cleaning out the dirt and rust flakes.

I realized I had poked through into the passenger's compartment.
Worst feeling I ever had finding money.

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post Sep 4 2019, 05:41 AM
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My black 1976 sold two days before I could buy it back in 2008...found the seller and he was holding my old hospital ID ca. 1977 in his hand, stuck behind the seat.

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post Sep 4 2019, 06:28 AM
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QUOTE(Superhawk996 @ Aug 25 2019, 06:14 PM) *

Nice find! For sport, I sift my pocket change looking for pre-1982 pennies.

Keep it - pre-1982 copper pennies are the only coins left in circulation actually worth more than face value. The nickel is close to par but hasn't tipped over $0.05 yet. The day is coming. Pre-1964 silver is worth more of course, but it's been over two decades since I found silver coinage in my pocket change.

New pennies are garbage zinc with a light plating of copper.

http://www.coinflation.com/unitedstates/

And we wonder why 914's are now trading for crazy prices. Prices aren't higher, the value of the dollar is lower. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)



Thanks for Posting this info.
Very cool.
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post Sep 4 2019, 08:02 AM
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QUOTE(BK911 @ Sep 4 2019, 08:28 AM) *

QUOTE(Superhawk996 @ Aug 25 2019, 06:14 PM) *

Nice find! For sport, I sift my pocket change looking for pre-1982 pennies.

Keep it - pre-1982 copper pennies are the only coins left in circulation actually worth more than face value. The nickel is close to par but hasn't tipped over $0.05 yet. The day is coming. Pre-1964 silver is worth more of course, but it's been over two decades since I found silver coinage in my pocket change.

New pennies are garbage zinc with a light plating of copper.

http://www.coinflation.com/unitedstates/

And we wonder why 914's are now trading for crazy prices. Prices aren't higher, the value of the dollar is lower. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)



Thanks for Posting this info.
Very cool.


It is very cool, for a very good read on way this debasement has happened download this free pdf of Murray Rothbard's tome "What Has Government Done To Our Money" sorry for the OT link
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post Sep 4 2019, 08:10 AM
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QUOTE(Mark Henry @ Aug 26 2019, 07:08 AM) *

In my 67 bus I found a 1966 german nickel (pfennig) during the resto, US bus so it must have fell out of a workers pocket during production. Not worth anything but a cool find.

A pfennig is the same as a penny
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post Sep 4 2019, 04:14 PM
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I found this in my 66 34,000 mile corvette: Attached Image
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