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Hoard!

PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2013 4:45 pm
by Morsecode
A neighbor of mine called and asked if I could look at some coins she accumulated. She said, 'there are some old ones, and some State quarters...' needless to say, I wasn't expecting much. Was I ever wrong!

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There are containers and envelopes, albums, old bank coin savers, coins wrapped in wax paper - it's like Christmas at my house. Oh yeah, I took them home. It's gonna take two months to go through this stuff. There's an entire box of colonial coins, many Vf+. Another box of silver. A box with old and new foreign coin & currency....I barely scratched the surface in two hours of poking around.

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The Juniors cigar box is wood, and each wax paper packet contains anywhere from 3 to 6 colonials

Re: Hoard!

PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2013 5:15 pm
by henrysmedford
Wow!!!

Re: Hoard!

PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2013 7:56 pm
by aloneibreak
very cool

my grandpa always stored the few coins he had in Band-Aid or sucrets tins

Re: Hoard!

PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2013 10:19 pm
by mtalbot_ca
Nice!!!!!!

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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2013 3:03 am
by Numis Pam
Sweet! Have fun lookin! :D

Re: Hoard!

PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2013 8:45 pm
by Morsecode
200 year old stuff has it's own kind of cool

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Re: Hoard!

PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2013 9:02 pm
by Morsecode
Here's the overview of what was in the cigar box

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Plus, $45 face 90%, 2 Morgans (incl a very nice 1892), 3 Peace, $25+ 40%, half roll of war nicks, some early Canadian copper, Canadian silver, $4 or $5 unsearched wheats (yes...for once, actually unsearched. Since 1960 anyway), a box of older foreign, another small box of semi numi stuff I set aside needs work, half dozen rolls of uncirc State quarters (no Wisconsin; they'd already be on ebay), & $267.76 in ordinary coin which I ran through the Arcade this afternoon. :P

Mrs. F----- was thrilled when I cashed her out

Re: Hoard!

PostPosted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:50 am
by joefro
Wow, it would be awesome to get to pick through a hoard like that! I got to pick through one that was like 1/10th that size after one of my uncles passed away and it was very cool. I sold most of it for my aunt, dumped a ton of silver back when it was about $12/oz. :oops:

Re: Hoard!

PostPosted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:21 pm
by ihavecoins
wow. I want in!