Closet Coin Collectors

You wouldn't believe who you run into everyday who is a closet coin collector.

I go through my boxes of roll hunting before and after work and usually have several bags of sorted coins sitting next to my desk.

So far I have had one of our vendors sales reps tell me he had a silver dollar (most likely an Ike) he had set aside somewhere but couldn't remember where and another sales rep told me he and his brother had a pile of silver dollars they got from their father when he passed.

Our Fed Ex rep mentioned he had a bunch of Morgan dollars and from the sound of it many of the are pretty nice.

One of the vehicle hikers for Penske always asks me about my silver finds as he has a few old silver coins.

The old guy who has a lady friend down the block from one of the owners sons house who stops in once in a while brought in some coins and old paper money going back to colonial times and some Civil War paper that he got as collateral for borrowing someone some money who never came back to square up. I bought a couple of Peace dollars off of him.

My boss (the owners other son) has an uncle who runs a coin operated air pump business and he has a pile of silver quarters he has gotten out of his machines over the years. I put a transmission in his service truck in exchange for $12.50 face in silver quarters. I think we both got a deal.

A higher up at one of the dump banks told me he had a bunch of Morgans and a banker at another dump bank was talking to me about a bunch Indian Head cents he had sold one time.

At a different branch another banker asked me about Ikes as she said she was saving them when she could get them for here kids. Another teller told me her mother grabbed some Sac dollars when they first came out because of here Native American ancestry. Another teller asked me when I first started how she could sell off some here silver finds and like an idiot I told her to put them on Craigslist instead of me offering to take a look at what she had. She was pregnant and I guess looking to free up some cash for the new baby but I was working with very little capitol at the time and it didn't click at the time.

Today the auditor for one of the finance companies came in and asked about a bag of halves I had and he said he had 1800 dateless Buffalo nickels his father had accumulated over the years.

Many times I have run into bank customers while dumping and we started talking about coins.

You never know who you will run into who know coins or has a stash somewhere.