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I was cleaning out my safe (Interpert cleaning as re-arranging) when I come across two Whitman books I purchased for Walkers about a year ago. I took them out of the bottom of the safe and opened both of them. Imagine my surprise when I found seven, yes seven, Walkers between the two books. I didn't put them in there, I had bought them at a coin shop in anticipation of starting a collection and then found that I liked Dansco better than Whitman. The dates escape me but I do remember the first book had a coin in the second slot which would indicate the second year of mintage for that series. The gentlemen at the coin shop where I purchased them must have never cleaned them out. They were only two dollars in a grab bag type arrangement on his floor. I am normally an honest individual and would have said something had I seen them. I bought the books in TN on Vacation and live in FL. I don't think I am going to go out of my way after a year to return them unless the one is quite valuable, then my conscience wouldn't leave me alone. Just thought I would share this story. Sounds made up but it really happened...  I was even getting ready to just toss them in the garbage as collection day was today. Thank God I opened them.... Edited by Freedom
06/29/2011 11:36 am
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Let me get home and I will scan them for you.....
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Yeah I did that with my older brothers coin collection-I'd had the books sitting there for years and I never knew there was coins in them!
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Sounds made up but it really happened... I don't think it sounds made up, I have heard others finding coins in albums they purchased as empty before also |
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Nice find!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I concur, something similar happened when I bought my sister a Wheat penny Whitman, but hers only had 1 wheatie from the 40s in it. |
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I have fond coins that I have hidden before, but never anyone else's coins I mistaken bought
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You really should have done that Spring Cleaning in Spring, not Summer.
Nice find.
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Woah that was a close one! Can't wait to see pics
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Way cool, and no reason at all to feel guilty. If there was a 17s type 1 in MS in there I would simply count it as my good fortune. No different than buying a painting and finding an original copy of the Bill of Rights under it.
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Ok, Instead of scanning, cropping and other crap to get it on here, I will list the dates and mints found.
First Book:
1) 1920-P F12 or F15
2) 1933-S F12
3) 1940-P XF/AU
4) 1940-S XF/AU
Second Book
5) 1942-P XF/AU
6) 1943-P XF/AU X 2
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Last summer I bought a Dansco 7070 album at a flea market for two dollars from a coin dealer and months later when I was looking at what coins for each type I would need to fill it I noticed the edge of a coin which had slipped out of its hole and moved down in between the rows. It was an 1853 arrows and rays quarter in about good condition. I then studied all of the other pages and found a Barber dime had also slipped out the same way. I don't recall the date for it. I gave both coins to my mother to put with my parents small accumulation of silver coins. Lesson to be learned here is sometimes used albums will yield a pleasant surprise. BTW, I have begun to fill the album. Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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What a pleasant surprise for you after all of that time, especially with the price of silver the way it is right now! I love to hear stories like this and congratulations on your amazing discovery.
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