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Valued Member
United States
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*** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***Last Saturday I posted about a penny my wife got in change from J.C. Penny. http://goccf.com/t/315465 Today she comes home from Walmart and tells me she got another old penny in change. This is what she hands me.   I haven't gotten anything even close to this in change for more than 50 years, and she comes up with 2 in one week. The stores are about 4 miles apart, and the odds of her getting 2 wheaties in this condition in one week have to be astronomical. I don't think she's playing a joke on me because she really isn't interested in collecting and would have no idea where to buy them. Any ideas how this could be happening? I'm dumbfounded. Edited by DeputyMax
04/14/2018 8:02 pm
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Valued Member
United States
392 Posts |
You are "living the dream". Enjoy!
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Valued Member
United States
97 Posts |
I think a child living within a two mile radius of those two stores has gotten into their parent's Whitman album. Now excuse me whilst I go check my Lincoln Cent books . . .  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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send your wife out to do more shopping,,,,wow..
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Nice.
It may have been from a collection but I think a lot of non-collectors have a few coins for whatever reason and they eventually end up in circulation again.
Glad it found a good home.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Most likely from someone's collection. Nice find.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2200 Posts |
Someone's collection just got dumped into circulation.
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Valued Member
United States
115 Posts |
A true back into circulation story. My Dad was a Postmaster, so back in the 60's, he saw a lot of old coins,(years later to be valuable),of many denominations on a daily basis and he knew enough to put them aside. The local owner of a bowling alley called my Dad to inform him that his son was spending very old coins, the owner put a halt to the spending spree until my Dad could correct the situation. It was never confirmed as to just how many coins where put back into circulation, the coins that survived are now in my collection, my Dad still lives on.
JFH
JFH
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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That's a nice score, Dgm! Thanks for sharing your confession, JFH.  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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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Lucky you nice coin . |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I wish someone would dump an S-VDB at my bank .  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
Lots of Grandpa and grandma savings hitting the street. This is also true at Good Will and Salvation Army stories. Real antiques hitting in droves. Bought four working Gold pocket watches last week for $20 each. Congratulations on those wheaties  |
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United States
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I think you need to head to the casino with your wife for a bit. And get a few lottery tickets while you're at it.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Nice find, I find often is not young people spend a collectable money, unless it a kid who doesn't know, its usally people who have forgotten they had this in their wallets or have been hand something they have no idea about.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Just the other day I found a I think it was a Florida State Quarter (the one with picture of state in good condition) in change ^_^. |
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United States
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I wish someone would dump an S-VDB at my bank . You and me both. |
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Posted 04/14/2018 7:59 pm
