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During my visit with mom last night, I told her that I had got back into coin collecting and that Lincolns were my favorite. Shen then reminded me of a water cooler bottle that she used to have full of cents that she had thrown in there for years. That bottle must have weighed 300-400 lbs! When they moved a few years back, my stepfather left them in his van overnight because he needed help moving it. When he came out the next morning, someone had broken into the van and stolen them!  What I wouldn't give to be able to sit down and go through that right now! |
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That's terrible. Hope your mom is doing better Scoob ;-)
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yeah my grandfather hoarded coins his whole life and after my grandmother died he had some people staying with him taking care of him and they took a bunch of his collection that he had in books and old coffee cans and miscellaneous jars. He could never prove they took them but the damage had already been done. When he died I had his collection here so no one else would steal the rest which was probably 10-20 thousand coins he had left. I can only imagine what had gotten taken from what he said he had and what I actually found allot of the more valuable coins were gone. He collected all these coins when they were still in circulation so he had $20 gold coins and all that he had kept
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Yes, vermontensium, she is doing better. Long way to go, but much better. Thank you.
Bryan, what a bummer. How sad that someone would take advantage of him like that. The stories he had to tell must have been incredible. Most of us couldn't even imagine what it was like to toss around gold pieces like they were zincolns!
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Bryan, what a bummer. How sad that someone would take advantage of him like that. The stories he had to tell must have been incredible. Most of us couldn't even imagine what it was like to toss around gold pieces like they were zincolns! Well he wasn't a real wealthy man but he owned a Esso station (what is now EXXON I believe)and also worked in a cotton mill at the same time in the 40's and 50's. He had a few 1955/55 lincoln cents that he had gotten out of packs of cigarettes that were in the cigarette machine because a pack of smokes would cost 24ยข and the cigarette companies would put cents in the packs because the machines would only take nickel dimes and quarters. For those of you youngsters a cigarette machine is a vending machine that holds cigarettes and you put your money in and pull a handle that reminds me of a pinball handle that shoots the ball and the pack of cigarettes that you chose would fall out. This was during those times that there were no age requirement for buying cigarettes. I remember then as late as the late 80's in a mill I worked at while in High School |
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For those of you youngsters a cigarette machine is a vending machine that holds cigarettes and you put your money in and pull a handle that reminds me of a pinball handle... A pinball machine is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a themed playfield inside a glass-covered case. It's kinda like a gameboy that transforms into a 3-D monitor that acts as the control. Hope that helps a bit.  |
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yeah I kind of forgot to mention what a pinball game was since some of these youngsters probably have never seen one of them either.....GOD I feel old!
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Sorry to hear about the stolen hoard, Scooby, but very glad to know your mother continues to improve.  I remember playing pinball a lot as a kid. I also remember the Pinball Wizard. Tommy, can you hear me?  |
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Starting to sound like I'm really old forum. Yes there are a lot of real young kids here that probably know little of the the good old days. This always reminds me of not to long ago I was talking to a kid next door of about 12. I told her when I was a kid there wasn't even a TV set or computer yet. She simple asked what did you plug your intendo machine in to? (not sure if intendo is right spelling) To add to this post not to long ago at work someone was telling me how they just got married. their parents had saved dimes in one of those giant bottles since they were kids and gave it to them for the wedding. Really spent time shaking them all out and taking to a bank in large bags. AAHHHHhhh.  Quote:
When they moved a few years back, my stepfather left them in his van overnight because he needed help moving it. When he came out the next morning, someone had broken into the van and stolen them! And that too is a AAAHHHHHHHHhhhh.  |
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Posted 10/10/2010 7:34 pm
