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 Littleton Coin Company - About a year ago, I had the privilege of meeting a cool little guy named Sam. He's a Webelos Cub Scout who's resourceful, crafty and loves to build things. After he found out I work for Littleton Coin Company, he started asking questions about coins - questions I was all too happy to answer! He's inquisitive and always has an eye out. and boy, did it ever pay off for him recently. You see, Sam's gotten in to the habit of checking coin returns wherever he goes. One night, while shopping with his Dad, he came across a small handful of change that had been left behind. It wasn't long after they got home that I received a picture text message. "Check out what Sam found tonight - he's calling soon!" My jaw dropped. It was a plate full of U.S. and world coins. including several Austrian Schillings, 1/2 Francs and 20 Rappen coins of Switzerland, a German 10 Pfennig and a 1 Franc from Belgium. And sitting smack dab in the middle of the group were two Mercury dimes! I was still processing what I was seeing, when my phone rang. I answered to hear a breathless - and VERY excited: Read the Entire Article
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Cute kid . I really miss finding silver and other interesting coins in the reject tray of TD bank coin counting machines.  |
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A good story.  Maybe I need to have my son checking them for me. His luck might be better than mine.  |
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Good job, Sam! Keep up the good work! |
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Wonderful story. If we all still had those young eyes.
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Awesome finds! Surprising he was able to find them in coin returns. What I like doing is inserting bills and coins into soda and snack machines and hitting the coin return button. You get new coins each time of course, but you might get some good ones. I did this at my college and was surprised to find a State Quarter from those painted coin sets. If you do this just make sure nobody else wants to use the machine  |
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A good story and very uplifting! Now if I could only have such luck...
In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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If we all still had those young eyes. I beg your pardon !  |
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Posted 01/12/2017 4:02 pm
