Rare Coins Used To Buy Cigarettes

The coins are hardly "rare".

The Lankstir police should have better things to do.

People will spend older coins for smokes or booze, but rarely bread or milk. If the polcie had any sense, they'd realize this.

I would be one of those clerks who takes the coins home. Yes, indeed. I bet the Liberty nickels and Buffalo nickels I've found in my boxes of nickels are stolen too (zomg, I've got to call the bank and report them! We're only allowed to find coins from 1965 to present in rolls).

Just have to LOL at the fact a 1960 nickel is considered 'rare' (don't wait to start hoarding them!), along with the Canadian coins. Wow, I hate misinformed people when it comes to simple money (the ones who look at you strange when you pay with a dollar coin, or halves and the ones in this story).

The cops should track that lady down and tell her that smoking is bad for her.

Since we're on the subject of spending valuable coins, a lady who pumps gas for a living, received a $10 Hawaii "war note" for payment here in town. At our last coin show, she showed us the note which was in superb condition. It's tucked in the frame of her wedding photo now.

My ex manages a gas station/convenience store. About 5 years ago she showed me 2 1921 Morgans and a '22 and '23 Peace dollar that somebody had just spent( I had stopped to get gas). I told her they were worth about $5.00 each. She sold them to me for $30.00. They were all xf/au. These were obviously ripped from somebodys collection.

I don't smoke so not sure if my neighbors telling me the truth or not but in the Chicago area a pack of cigeretts runs about $9.00
AND there is supposed to be a dollar a pack increase for more taxes.
The problem here is just which is worth more, the coins or a cigerett.
At this rate a 1916D Mercury dime will soon be nothing compared to a carton of those things. So which is better to start hoarding, coins or cigeretts? You know there are a lot of people that DON'T NEED COINS. But ask a smoker how long he can go without one of those little white things.

I smoked from 1954 to 1994. I paid as little as $1.00 per carton and as much as $14.00 or $15.00 a carton. I wonder what I would have had I invested that money in coins.....what if, what if, what if.

You want to talk about wigging out? I worked in a grocery store back in 1979 and somebody tried to pay for his groceries with a $500.00 bill! My manager was a Christian man, but he went off...lol. That was the only $500.00 bill I've ever seen in circulation!

I don't believe they have found a gold buffalo in any of those salvation army kettles yet! Besides, those gold coins going into those kettles were donations. they weren't spent on Cigarettes or beer at a covenience store.