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 Posted 12/18/2008  10:45 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add chris1222nascar to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
What does everyone think of these coins put into Salvation Army kettles?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217...and_donation
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 Posted 12/18/2008  11:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Its a great way to make a large anonymous donation and in virtually all cases, the coins are in airtites or flips to protect them plus the extra packaging is a bit of a signal that they have something special.
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 Posted 12/18/2008  10:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DNA to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
One of the bell ringers saw the BU Martin Van Buren dollar I dropped into his kettle and asked "Is that a gold coin?!" I showed him another BU dollar and explained what it was (and donated that one, too!) The guy had never seen a BU Presidential dollar coin!

At least one gold coin has been dropped into a S.A. kettle every year in Denver in recent times. Last year, they got an 1883 Half Eagle and a couple of Krugerrands.

This bell ringer may have thought he was catching a gold coin donor in the act!

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 Posted 12/19/2008  4:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TreasHunt to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
nice, and it is fun?
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