Miami Valley Coin Club

You Never Know

What’s that? It’s a coin of some type.

You never know when the next interesting coin will show up. One did for me last week. I was returning a rental truck and something caught my attention on the ground in the parking lot.

It was a coin or a token of some sort, but it was a lot thicker than a coin should be. It wasn’t in the greatest condition. How long had it been laying in the parking lot?

Upon closer inspection the coin appeared to say “One Pound” on it. After a little time on the internet, I found out that it was a 1996 one pound British coin depicting the Celtic cross of Northern Ireland. How a British Northern Ireland coin ended up on a rental truck parking lot in Dayton, Ohio I’ll never know.

I found out that it was decided that from 1984, British £1 coins would feature different reverse designs for each of the four parts of the United Kingdom. All £1 coins dated 1996 feature on the reverse a Celtic cross symbolizing Northern Ireland. The coin was demonetized last year and is worth only about $1.30 U.S.

But the story of how and where I found it… priceless!

(This is what my coin could have looked like… before it was run over and left in a parking lot! Keep you eyes peeled! You never know what coin may be out there just waiting to be found.)