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Valued Member
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You don't live in upstate NY, do you?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This kind of story is exactly why I don't keep my coins in the open. When my Son was around 7 years old (he's 23 now), I introduced him to my coin collection. His interest was tepid to say the least, but he seemed to pay particular attention to the 8-10 Morgan dollars that I had in lock-tite holders. A few days after me and my son went through the coins, I noticed all of the Morgans were freed from the Lock Tites and gone. After some very brief detective work, my son informed me that he'd given the Morgans to several of his friends. The end of the story turned out well... We retraced his trail and I got all of the Morgans back. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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There's a jewellery store in the town where I live that sells second hand gold coins that people have brought in. Usually they're just old bullion coins but about a year ago I saw that one of the coins appeared to be a proof Half-Sovereign that was being sold at a price you would normally expect to pay for a bullion version. I thought I might get myself a good deal (a gold proof coin for the price of gold bullion) so I asked to see the coin. The jeweller not only opened up the capsule and removed the proof coin with his bare hands (putting a nice fingerprint on the coin) he had made a small sticker with the price written on it and stuck it straight onto the coin itself! I couldn't believe they could ruin a coin like that. Needless to say I did not proceed with the deal.
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04/17/2013 08:45 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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More sad stories really don't help but try this one. A neighbor of mine USED to collect Gold Coins. He had them in a safe in his house. Since he was old and living alone, he gave the combination to his Daughter and Son in Law. their Son, not sure how he found the combination, went to his Grandfather's house when not at home. Opened the safe, took all the Gold Coins, sold them all for drugs.
He ended up in jail but since his Grandfather was and is old, he felt sorry for the kid so he bailed him out, dropped all charges. All coins lost though.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This is the kind of story in which I keep my collection in slabs.  I am  for your loss...hopefully you can recover some of those 96-W's. Edited by oih82w8
04/17/2013 1:07 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Doesn't have to do with coins or monetary value but .......... My brother in law is a huge golfer and huge Tiger Woods fan. He saw Tiger at a casino in Vegas one day and had him sign a twenty dollar bill. He was going to frame it and hang it in his office with all his other golfing memorabilia. Well my sister in law came home from working the night shift, noticed there was no milk in the fridge for breakfast. Thinking she would do something nice, she took the twenty out of his wallet and went down to the local 7/11 to get some milk.
Needless to say when he woke the next morning........... all worked out, at the speed of light he raced to the store and retrieved his prize out of the night deposits pouch.
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Valued Member
United States
417 Posts |
My Wife Loves Me.
Every day she let me search through her change before it goes into her "Mad Money" fund.
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Valued Member
 United States
362 Posts |
Well I just got two of 50 back in change yesterday. It's a start.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeah go to all the businesses in town and ask if they have change for a buck. Ha, tell them you need dimes for the pay phone.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
561 Posts |
Where can you even find a pay phone anymore? lol
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Pillar of the Community
United States
814 Posts |
My first coin collection met a tragic fate. I began collecting when I was 9 and when I was 11 my senior citizen partner from a school program gave me her collection, which had been started when she was my age. By the time I was 12 my collection had grown to about $1500 in value, half of it silver.
Then tragedy struck. One of my younger brothers started slowly take parts of it and using it to buy junk food at school. I noticed but couldn't figure out who had been doing it, nor could my parents. This went on for a month until one day it was all gone, everything that was left. A fee weeks later I heard change jingling as me brother changed his sheets. Upon further invesigation, a slit and a hole inside the mattress was discovered. Maybe 5% of my collection remained. Grounding was not enough off a punishment.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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See...this is what happens to smokers! Yeah. Smoking kills... collections. Edited by SaintRidley
04/22/2013 8:22 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Yeah. Smoking kills... collections. You're right ! The sad part is, I have never smoked (all but 4 or 5 cigarettes)all of my life. However I've chosen to surround myself with those who smoke, usually women. Mainly because of what my grandpa told me, "Boy, girls who smoke are easy." Guess you gotta pay one way or another. I just got hit plus interest.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
567 Posts |
My mother used to take my grandfather's pre-1965 quarters and buy pizza with them. He had a shoebox full of them which he pulled from change back in the late 60's. She wondered why he would get mad at her for taking them...
I once dropped a Virginia copper and it disappeared, never to be seen again. Rolled off into the proverbial sunset.
My wife once spent $10 low serial # star note I had pulled from circulation on smokes.
My son just the other day found a two dollar bill I had set on the table after getting it from the bank and crumpled it up. He also tore the cover off of one of my law books. Gotta love toddlers.
My collection now lives in two safes, both kept above high water line (another story about that one).
Best, and my condolences on the dimes. I feel your pain.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Geez, jcmworld...Luck doesn't seem to be on your side.
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