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Valued Member
United States
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Yet another one of my store clerks, this one at Wal-mart, apologized to me earlier today. She also lost my number . She told me an old man came in last night and bought just under $25.00 worth of groceries. But paid with a 25 dollar roll of coins. ALL of which were $20.00 gold peices , that the dates were 18?! She said their still in the cash office and to just go talk to Debbie. Well, all that was left was the empty roll with thirty dollars in cash put in it's place. I did get the mans name and searched high and low for a phone number. All were wrong. But to anyone that has access to the phone company's records, there is one more Mr.Tyler who's number is unpublished by request. If so, good luck and remember the hot tip. I'll settel for 10%. HA! Moved to Main forum - Sap |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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how does a $25.00 roll contain a roll of $20.00 gold pieces? Seems to me a roll would contain atleast 10 coins and that would be a 200.00 roll not a 25.00 roll so I think someone is pulling your leg over this one
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It may of been a roll of sacs or pres. dollars most likely.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
968 Posts |
I think the Sac./Pres. theory makes the most sense. Unless the old guy was suffering from severe Alzheimers no one would do such a thing. It is one thing to spend old silver coins, even classic styles from the 1800s. But everyone knows gold coins are worth a fair chunk of change.
Besides dementia the only way I could possibly see this as real is if those coins were put into a roll meant to hold the large dollar coins (Ike and earlier).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is it me or is it not odd that no one removed the coins, what ever they were, from the roll to see just what was in there?At least at the time of the transaction, I know they were removed later and dead presidents were found in their place.
Ron, I would think you are on to something with your suggestion....Mike
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Valued Member
 United States
347 Posts |
no guy's, went back to get to the bottom of the story and it was two rolls for Eisenhower's Dollar. I now have personaly seen the empty roll with an identical roll still in the till for that register. Someone was in a hurry! And with good reason! One end of the roll was torn off then covered with several strips of scotch tape. The light is good in the cash room and my vision is 20/15, and there was no mistake in the color through the tape. Standing in the door opening, it's approx. 12 feet away.
My brother is a detective and knows the Geraral Manager, so if the person that has the first part of the treasure does'nt put two and two together, We will at least have an ending, or better yet pictures, or even better . . . I won't get my hopes up too high but what a nice dream to have come so close to. If I had only entered my phone number into the cashier lady's cell phone instead of writing it on a register receipt two months ago we would have a different ending to the story. Behold the power of hindsight!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 First it was a $25.00 roll of coins....now it's 2 rolls of Ikes? (Which are $20.00 rolls). If you are implying that the rolls contained Double Eagles...I find it hard to believe that somebody kept $40,000.00+ in gold laying around in paper wrappers. Maybe the coins took on a nice golden tone due to the wrappers! I guess we'll just have to wait and see if you can provide anymore info. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Seems pretty far out to me. Time will tell.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Also double eagles are smaller in diameter than Ike dollars so the rolls would feel very oddand the coins would rattle around in the roll. (Unless you cut the wrapper down the side and then wrapped it down tight and used tape to hold it together.) Even then it would be twenty coins, not twenty-five. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Joe, I really want to believe you on things like this, and I don't want to sound rude, but your posting history suggests you are coming across these sorts of "amazing finds" all the time (such as your Sac. dollar that has 3 different errors on it). With so many of them turning out to be nothing, it becomes hard to get excited when you have the next great thing come along.
In this case you originally said he paid with a roll and that roll had been moved into the cash office. When you got there it had been opened, but for some reason the paper roll itself was still laying there, and $30 was left in its place. Now you are saying there were two rolls, one of which was still in the register, and you saw that second roll from a distance and could tell it was gold. If they still have that second roll, why didn't you buy it?
I'd love to be proven wrong here and find out this really happened the way you think it did, but you have to understand why this story generates a lot of skepticism here. That isn't to say you are making things up, just that your perception of what happened and what actually happened may be two different things.
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Valued Member
United States
347 Posts |
Sorry I wasn't there when it happened. All I can tell you is my soarce is without a doubt, She is always reliable. Her words were " I've never seen anything like that before! Not in my twenty years working here have I seen such a thing. Maybe he's color blind or something?".
I say what I see, you see what I find. Maybe I'm pulling my own leg? So saruma, I will always do as I say I will, patience on that end and persistance on mine .
I don't know what else to tell you, Other than it's all real here ALWAYS!
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Valued Member
United States
245 Posts |
"I don't know what else to tell you, Other than it's all real here ALWAYS!"
This may be real to you Joe, but that doesn't make it real for anyone else. You could be operating on a superior level of rationalism which we can't comprehend.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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how did it go from a $20.00 gold piece to Eisenhower dollars? seems the cashier would know what the coin was worth, and you said at first he bought 25.00 worth of groceries and paid with a $20.00 Gold coin and he had a full roll of them. Did the cashier take the Eisenhower dollar as it being worth $20.00 if so they wouldn't be telling you the story because they would not stay in business long that way. What we don't understand is you said the cashier told you he paid with coins that had a $20.00 face value but now it turns out to be $1.00 coins |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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another thing that strikes me as weird is the clerk told you specifically that the coins were from 18? and well that would shut out any Ikes as well
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hey, I think I found one of those dollars;  Nope, I guess not;  |
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Valued Member
United States
347 Posts |
Well, the bottom of the story has come! The manager on duty is who my "CSI' tactics finaly came to. And I was correct first off with my 'clerks' words!
I didn't get some details but listen to this....He only would/could show me one that he says "I'll Keep this on in my pocket from now on!" , and that one was 1870 something(?). He wouldn't let out of his hand and his thumb covered the last number.too frasked to ask I guess. But asked to see the back side and it was 'CC'! I don't even know what that coins called yet but it said 'TWENTY D'. Extra fine I guess.
It was two rolls, to make up what I guess $30,000 in Gold, cause thats where he said he they went. "How much?", and all he could say was "Aww, I did alright.".
I don't miss much, but that's a hard hit to all kinds of desires! My coin searching clerk did think of me right off, but one case of coulda-shoulda-woulda! ! ! ! ! !
I'll go one further and find him on next shift and inquire about a photo for us all. I can tell you that I don't really know what to feel right now. What a great loss. I bet there was a millon there. I know what I'm going to do next in light of it all though,
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Posted 12/17/2009 10:36 pm
