Posted 09/14/2014 11:56 pm
Ha! Yes, odd place. My father recently passed away, and he was a bit of an accumulator and hoarder of a lot of things, one of them being coins, bills, stamps, trains. He put coins in jars, bottles, change purses, envelopes, prescription bottles, baggies, curad tins, ashtrays (didn't smoke), filled a shaving kit bag; just about anything worthy of storing coins.
He also has a collection he built with his father, that wasn't documented, appraised or photographed.
All in all, we found over $1,400 in collected modern coinage. 4,500 wheat pennies, 25lbs of silver coins, 2 ounces of gold coins. Other noteworthy non-numismatic finds are: Charles Lindbergh cancelled envelope from his St. Louis to Chicago route after he flew across the Atlantic; U.S. Senate and U.S. House Gallery Passes signed by Senator Pomerance (Pomerantz?) during the TeaPot Dome Scandal hearings. A letter addressed to J. Edgar Hoover pre-WWII asking him to invite my grandfather to Washington; signed U.S. Senate Letterhead by then Senator Warren G. Harding plus a signed Presidential portrait of Harding. War time U.S. Treasury letter head signed by two Senators from Ohio.
Anyway, neat stuff found in odd places.
He also has a collection he built with his father, that wasn't documented, appraised or photographed.
All in all, we found over $1,400 in collected modern coinage. 4,500 wheat pennies, 25lbs of silver coins, 2 ounces of gold coins. Other noteworthy non-numismatic finds are: Charles Lindbergh cancelled envelope from his St. Louis to Chicago route after he flew across the Atlantic; U.S. Senate and U.S. House Gallery Passes signed by Senator Pomerance (Pomerantz?) during the TeaPot Dome Scandal hearings. A letter addressed to J. Edgar Hoover pre-WWII asking him to invite my grandfather to Washington; signed U.S. Senate Letterhead by then Senator Warren G. Harding plus a signed Presidential portrait of Harding. War time U.S. Treasury letter head signed by two Senators from Ohio.
Anyway, neat stuff found in odd places.
