I work for a little mom and pop company and one day last week the boss's wife overheard me talking to another employee about coin collecting. She said she had a shoe carton of coins that she had been stashing that "caught her eye" ever since she came to our country (she's from Russia). She asked me if I would take a look at them and, of course, I said "heck yeah!".
Anyway, I go through the box, mostly mundane stuff, but isolated a few MAD's, a couple of die cracks and a couple of other curiosities that had cool factor but no value. Including this guy:
However, she had 2
Ike dollars, both of them 1976. One was a type I, and the other a type II. How cool was that! So, I put them in flips and told her although not worth a lot, still cool that she had both types on only 2 coins.
She also had about 50 Susan B's. One of them a '79P Wide rim! So, I put that in a 2x2 to make sure it didn't get confused with the others. Then noticed she had several different year/mm (with full talons) and put them in 2x2's because she almost had a set. I then isolated about another 15 or so full talons, put them in a coin tube, and told her to keep them separate in case they ever became more desirable like full bands or full bells. The rest I put back in her shoebox.
Then she just gave them to me and said she wanted them to have a good home! How cool was that! So, now I have to collect the rest of the set of Susan B's and I can't just have only 2 Ikes! Makes me wonder if I should have kept the
Wheat penny!
Sorry, I wasn't trying to make this a long story.
Posted 03/21/2010 12:58 pm
