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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The relevance to? coin collecting? or?
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How a rare DV cent made me some great freinds here.
It all started about 2 years ago when I picked up a book. The book was "Strike it rich with pocket change". In that book was the 1992 CAM's which I found one of. So I held that coin for around 2 years not knowing who I would meet or what it's journey would entail. Then I happened upon CCF and began to read and learn more than I already new about coins. I read about errors and varieties and many other great things. And I played the contests. I realized the generousity of a certain individual and started to correspond with that person. I eventually told the person about my 92 CAM and he took a very large interest in the coin. I did not have a camera at the time and had no way of photographing the coin so realizing the generousity of the individul I said "hey would you be willing to take a picture or two of this coin for me and post it"? he said, "sure no problem, send it my way". I did and from that, started a great freindship. I have met another variety collector/seller as well who's generousity is as well overwhelming. Now I could have sold this coin for a large amount but instead chose to sell it for @ 1/2 it's worth. It went to the one who photographed the coin and the person who (thanks to CCF) is now a true freind. WOLF
Didn't count the words but wanted to tell this story anyway. Thanks WOLF
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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P.S. I want to add that a very large number here at CCF are very generous and not just the two mentioned in the story. I appreciate everyone of you and you all know who you are. Thanks so much for being a great forum family. WOLF
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This is a tale of two soda machines. The first sat in my grandfather's shop and sold cans of soda for 50 cents. One day when was about 12, my older brother was trying to buy a soda. When the machine spat out his quarter, he started closely looking at each of the quarters in his pocket. When I asked him what was up, he said he was looking at the dates on them. He said that Granddad had a standing offer of 50 cents for any quarter he found that was dated before 1965.
I filed this fact away. I checked my change every once in a while, but never saw one of these ancient quarters. (I also kept an eye out for 1909 S-VDB cents and 1916-D dimes because the Weekly Reader once told me those were big deals. Never mind that at the time I had no idea where the VDB would have been located, nor did I realize that a 1916 dime would not have FDR's profile!)
About 20 years later I was sitting next to another soda machine in the teacher's lounge at work. This one was much larger, fancier, and sold plastic bottles of soda for $1.00. One of the science teachers was frustrated with the machine and asked if any of us had a quarter to trade since the machine wouldn't take his.
I fished out a quarter and he tossed his on the table where it made a crazy sound.
"Uh, did you hear that? This may be silver."
"Yeah, I think it's old. That's probably why the machine won't take it."
"Are you sure you want to trade it to me?"
"Yeah, it's just been riding around in my truck for a while."
Back in my classroom, I looked up the value of this 1962 quarter that I had just bought at face value. The "Google Machine" said it had a melt value of almost $3.00. Well, I dug through my pockets and I had two $1 bills. So I found the science teacher and handed him the bills and told him his quarter was worth some real cash. It took some persuading, but I finally forced the bills on him.
Of course, the moral of this story is that over 20 years, the cost of a soda may increase by 100%, but the value of a silver quarter will increase by over 600%!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How I started collecting coins This is a true story and I've mentioned it in other posts.... As a kid, my family and I were fortunate to spend many years living next door to the Fichtner family. They had four beautiful daughters, two of which would occupy some of my thoughts in later years, but when I was only 8 years old my attention was riveted on Mr. Fichtner's coin collection. Our families were frequent guests of the other's and I first became aware of the collection one day when I saw him pulling the coins out of their albums and polishing them, one by one, with a rag and some sort of polish that he applied to both silver and copper coins. I know what you're thinking...that what he was doing was blasphemous. Simply put, he was a neat freak, and everything he owned shone. I'm sure that, to him, polishing his coins seemed every bit as appropriate and natural as waxing his car. I didn't know any better way back then and so I didn't bring this sin to his attention. His collection consisted of a very incomplete Buffalo nickel set, a half-way incomplete 1909-1940 Lincoln set, an incomplete Mercury dime set, a nearly complete Roosevelt dime set and a completed 1941-1959 Lincoln set. Maybe he had grown tired of the hobby, or more likely he recognized the rapture on my face whenever he pulled out those coins, but it wasn't long until he "sold" them all to me for face value. Thus began the hobby for me. I stopped polishing the coins a couple years later when I learned it was not the right thing to do and, in time, I replaced them all with coins that had not been cleaned. Although I lived next door to him for another 12 or more years -- until I got married and moved away -- I never pointed out to him the error of his ways with regard to cleaning the coins. I just let him know each time I began a new set a set or obtained a particularly tough date. Almost 50 years later, whenever my thoughts turn numismatic, I still think of him and his well-polished coins and I remember the kindness and generosity behind that face value sale he initiated. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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We have six stories. I score them and post the results today. Thank you.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1256 Posts |
And the winners...
1. Cherrypicked by wheezydog
2. Into the Land Of the Little Swingers, Or, Betrayed By the Dime Chime by pls
3. How I started collecting coins by weerdsteev
Please PM addresses
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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OMG Thank you, I won! Fantastic! I hope you and others enjoyed my spontaneous keyboard banged out twilight zone story. I just started typing and that's what it became. I enjoyed the other stories as well. I wish there were more to read. PM-ed address, again thank you so much!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Congrats wheezy...I would have chosen your story too!
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Valued Member
United States
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 I lost but it was very fun to read the stories I think I might do something like this when I get up there in posts congrats to the winners, cool prizes  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10284 Posts |
My nice old coin arrived today . Thank you very much! I like it a lot.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Congrats to wheezy for a great story and his top win!
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United States
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