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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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You could call the charity and tell them to be on the look out and offer, $5 or $10 so it's a win-win.
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The charity may already have a "coin expert" in their counting room doing this, in which case, I agree - their "special" coins are off-limits to you. And not only a coin expert with charities, but also with other things at places where people drop off contributions. For example where I live there was a gun collection made and a gift certificate for gym shoes for each gun. A cop I know said only about half the guns make it past the first table. The cops watch for and collect the better ones. At a Goodwill place I dropped off some cloths. One item was a leather coat. The person taking the stuff in said, this is for me, thanks. Ever wonder about the people that have a laundromat. Imagine the vast amount of coins they see every day. I met person that had a few of them. He told me he makes almost as much selling coins as he does with the business. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ya charity buckets is an iffy one.
Yet I have done it with tip jars at restaurants.
I saw a 1956 quarter in one, asked if I could have it for a dollar. Of course they said yes.
On another occasion, I saw a $1 bill with serial #00006649. I thought it was interesting, lowest # I've seen, and asked to switch it with $2.
They looked at me weird, but then said sure. I explained that "I collect those type of things" and they let me buy it.
So for charity, I would imagine it's the same principle.
The worst they can do is say no. That's my motto.
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Pillar of the Community
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okay here it is. How the heck did I forget about this, over a year later. you guys are lucky I remember what happen. What happen was well, the McDonalds is across the street from my high school and I was going from auto class to foods class, auto class is on the far side of the school and foods class is on the other side of the school ironically closest to the McDonalds. On the way to foods class I was asking my SEA education assistant if I could go to the McDonalds and get the coin because it was Wednesday, the day they said the manager would be there. She said I would need to ask the foods teacher so when I got to the class I asked her and she gave me the go ahead, I ran out of the school and went down across the street to the McDonalds as all my class mates saw through the window. I asked for the manager and she came and dumped the whole container out all over the counter and I got the dime and gave her a quarter. The dime happened to be a 1964 Canadian dime. I went back to the foods class and showed everybody it and when I got home showed my dad. If my coin collection was a city this dime would not be a building like all the rest, it would be a monument for how it was acquired.
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Moderator
 United States
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I hate seeing old threads bumped, and was pretty angry....until I saw the post that bumped it.  Too cool, man. That's the kind of initiative that sets people apart in life.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Therein it should remain.
Gee willikers! It would only have about a buck fifty's worth of silver in it, anyway!
I don't think it would be worth bothering with.
Why can't the charity have this small amount of silver?
If it was a truely valuable coin, perhaps you could have offered to buy it for market price.
But that is hypothetical.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I didn't realize how old the thread was until about the 4th entry. Happy to see that and honest request was met by a gracious individual who didn't mind taking a minute to improve the outcomes (our member and the charity). Win-win at a minimum.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8521 Posts |
The silver more than likely wouldn't have went to the charity but to a coin counting machine at a bank somewhere.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Canada
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When I see silver coins in those boxes, I slip in a little folded (typed) note in the box that states: Quote:
You have silver coins in this box (Canadian 10c and 25c before 1968). In exchange for those coins, I will donate 10x their face value to this charity. Text me at: XXX-XXX-XXXX (obviously, my cell number will not be posted here). This almost always works... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@SPP-Ottawa Just curious if you've gotten contacted by executing the method you mentioned. Thanks. Normic, glad it worked out for you!Kudos 4 the update. Edited by CopperCastle
03/15/2015 12:23 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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SsuperDdave, thanks for letting me know. sel_69l, silver is silver and for how much of it is out there and for how hard it is to find, when I see it I'mtaking initiative. My dad read your post and told me to tell you that the people that get the coins don't take the dime out because its silver and that it would of just gone with the rest of the coins but I was going to say that already. Rackster, Ya I was just looking through my non archived posts and saw this thread. I didn't know I could see all my posts like that. The manager seemed like the kind of manager I would like to have at my work Haha. 52Raymo, that's what my dad told me, its why I like to preserve them. SPP-Ottawa, That's a good idea, thanks for saying it. It might come in handy for me one day. A couple months after I got the dime I saw another one of the exact same year at Tim Horton's charity container and could not get it. CopperCastle, Thanks, I'mglad it worked out too. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
If it's just gone with the rest of the coins there would be no great loss for anybody.
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Pillar of the Community
798 Posts |
That doesn't make sense. did you read that I put a quarter in for the dime  The quarter I gave I was happy to loose because it gained me a silver dime. If I left it in the charity bin they wouldn't of gotten 15 more cents because of me and I wouldn't of gotten a silver dime.. something you cant even find in circulation in this country anymore because of the alloy recovery program. What do you mean by great loss  |
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United States
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You did them a favour. Well done. I do not like the idea of putting valuable coins in charity bins. This leaves it up to them to recognize it and make additional effort to get full value for it. With time being money, it would probably not pay them for the hassle. So if you want to give a charity a dollar worth of silver, why not just give them a dollar from the start?  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I don't like it either, in this country if coins like that find there way into a bank its game over... unless a coin roll hunter comes along and asks if they have any silver and they don't say they cant give it because its discontinued. Or if you want to give them $20 worth of silver, you just throw a 20 in and walk off with your silver dollar you have in your purse or wallet for whatever reason.
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