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Pillar of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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Just when you think you've seen it all.
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Pillar of the Community
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The Confederate bill jammed inside of it is just absurd.
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Pillar of the Community
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Some truth in advertising anyway:
I'm not going to tell you that I bought this jar from some old hoard of lost coins or from a ranch of old people coins? Or that I bought this from a 1,000 year old man who sold me hundreds of coins at an estate sale.
Guess I'd better talk to ma about sellin the old yaller dog, git me some biddin money.
And come to think of it, I just picked up a sovereign for melt. I've got enough worn out pence and sterling in my coin boxes for a no-foolin' British hoard. Now all I need is a rusty Heinz 57 can...or since it's an Aussie sovereign, an old Marmite jar.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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11/06/2015 5:05 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Now this is something I haven't seen before.
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Pillar of the Community
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I would not bid on this jar because it does not have the official wax seal on the lid, but it does appear to have some interesting coins.
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 Who's he kidding ,the glass jar by itself weighs about one pound . If the coins in these jars have a good chance of being worth a lot ,then why don't the heck he keep them for himself.  some people (bidders) just don't get it.  |
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The key here on this outrage is the "no return" policy.
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Pillar of the Community
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I love how he says "you do the math" right after he lists values pulling prices from thin air
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Pillar of the Community
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He listed the minimum value of a Morgan as $45. Also, he put all four gold coins on one side so he could get them all in the first picture.
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Fun fact: I once came across a legitimate "mason jar hoard" at an antiques shop near Waxahachie, TX while we were out estate-sale-hunting. The original owner took a 1 quart Ball Perfect Mason, cut a slot into the zinc lid, and put "all of the old ones" in there from his daily pocket change. It looked mostly full of Wheat cents and a few Buffalo nickels. I bought it for $20, and ended up with a bunch of 40s and 50s Wheat cents, a couple of dateless SLQ's, a couple dollars face in circulated Roseys and Washingtons, and a handful of 30s Buffalos, most with partial or full dates. No gold, no key dates, nothing very old, and maybe barely worth $20 at the time (early 90s.) Took the jar and stuck it on the shelf with my other fruit jars. Got to looking at the jar one day a few years after the fact and realized it was a Ball Perfect Mason #3 with "PEPFECT" embossing error, which happens to be a scarcer fruit jar variety. I swiped a zinc/porcelain insert lid from another Ball jar, to replace the one with the slot cut in it, and sold the jar on ebay for $39, which was $19 more than I paid for it with the coins inside from the original seller. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Pillar of the Community
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Great story Paralyse buy the jar and not the coins.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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 This post is HILARIOUS. |
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This guy can be serious about his jar of coins. He doesn't even have a Certificate of Authenticity for it.  |
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Seeing these listings makes me sad, but then again intrigues me... has anyone actually seen something like this but legit from their grandparents or anything filled with actual circulating rare coins? THAT would be something awesome to see!
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Posted 11/06/2015 4:14 pm
