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Valued Member
United States
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Long story short, my father let me keep about 40 or so rolls of my grandfather's wheat pennies. Mostly from the 40's and 50's but there were some earlier than that. So I figured I'd be a good guy and give half of them to my brother. Not only did he get rid of them, but used them at a store at face value. I am beyond disappointed as for one, I trusted him that he'd hold onto them. Secondly, they were our grandfather's Wheat cent collection. Has anyone else had something like this happen? I can only imagine how I'd feel if it were pre-65 silver. |
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Valued Member
 United States
265 Posts |
Well if anyone is in southern MA near the cape, there are a good 12-20 rolls worth of wheaties circulating there. If you live near there and find a bunch, please let me know. I'd love to help fellow collectors or even search myself to try and recover them. Last time I split something like that.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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When my wife was a child, she's now 64 (but I didn't tell you her age), her older sister got into Dad's stash of Indian Head cents and spent a number of them at the local store. Not quite your situation, but I'm sure he was not happy about that. Paul Bulgerin
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United States
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My brother is in his early 30s. He should know better. I should have known better too since he has no imcome and has traded off a handful of grandpa's Mercury dimes as well. Lesson learned: Don't give irresponsible people things that they need to be responsible for. It's not because they were wheaties, it's because they were our grandfather's and a good amount of them. I know I'm new but this is the one place I could vent about it. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
800 Posts |
I own and operate a small luncheonette. One day a young girl paid for her sandwich with a Morgan silver dollar. I held on to it for over a year figuring one of her parents might be in asking for it back. Well, that hasn't happened. BTW, sounds like me and my brother. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 and sorry your brother is so irresponsible mailman. That's a hard lesson to learn but as you mentioned at least it wasn't silver coins. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have a brother like that ....  Maybe I didn't beat him up enough when we were young  Edited by GR58
10/31/2016 7:27 pm
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Valued Member
United States
265 Posts |
I do have to let it go though. It just sucks when I would have held onto them. Live and learn.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Sorry this happened. I do understand that not everyone values keepsakes, but why not say so right away?
You're right, you have to let it go, but I fully understand how you feel.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Whether they are 40-50s or teens-20s, I'd punch someone if they did that. It just makes me cringe inside when I read that. My coin oriented brain screaming, "Why! WHY! WHYYYY!!"
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Valued Member
Canada
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I heard of some idiots doing this to someone I knew years ago
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Valued Member
United States
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A cousin joined the US Air Force during the Vietnam War. His mother "cleaned up" his room while he was gone. She brought a small box of silver coins to the bank because it was taking up space in his desk. She did give him the money when he came back.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Ugh, tough story. to CCF and hopefully you'll have a less painful story to share with us down the road. |
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United States
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How long ago did he spend them? I posted on here pictures of some pennies I picked up on the South Shore of Massachusetts I got a 1955 S and 1959 D that were both BU in change about two months ago. I even commented that I thought they must have been from someones collection that got dumped by accident. http://goccf.com/t/268453&whichpage=1 |
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United States
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Its tough when they have sentimental value. My brother has a Large Ball jar filled with our Great Grandfathers gambling pennies. He would sit around once a week and play poker with his buddies using only pennies (we also found out years later than our uncle caught him cheating pretending to ante without adding to the pot). My brother isn't a coin collector but still has that jar of pennies unopened since he got it 20 years ago when we were teenagers. I asked him to let me look through them to see if there he has anything of value but he declined. He wants to keep it how grandpa left it. The jar of pennies is more important than the pennies.
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Posted 10/31/2016 6:14 pm
