Co-workers and Copper
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 2:21 pm
So, I do not write much but I needed to share this story.
Yesterday, we had a retirement party for one of the old guys at work. He is a really nice man and taught me a lot over the last couple of years so i was very thankful for that. Well, he decided to give us all a going away present too. After all, he was making out better in the deal as we all had to come to work today and he is going to the islands. Well, over the last two years I gave in and told him about my sickness for sorting copper. We got lots of chuckles over the things I found and just had a good back and forth conversation about pennies, silver, gold, oil, and investments in general.
At his party, he started handing out presents to everyone based on what he knew about them and the things they liked. When he got to me, he whipped out a nice bag of old wheats. Of course my eyes went all big, my wife rolled her eyes in the way many wives do when their husbands derive joy from a hobby they do not understand, and everyone laughed. Then he also whipped out a 1923 Peace Dollar in decent shape to go with them. Of course everyone thought that was cool, and my wife rolled her eyes again.....
So, I got home and decided to crack into the bag of wheats. There were about 3 dollars worth of wheats in the bag. Most were common 40's and 50's dates with about 10 in the pre-1940 range. The oldest was 1919. So as I am in all my glory, I noticed some funny looking ones. Oh Yeah, there were some long lost tribe members lurking in the wheats. Six total! I must say, over the last 3 years of looking through boxes, I have scraped up 6 total, so now my tribe is up to 12. The oldest one was 1891 I believe. As far as wear, they are your typical circulated Indian, but hey, what do I care. I reunited them with their kin already on my collection. I scored copper and silver at work. Wheats, Indians and a Peace Dollar no less. Of course, my wife just rolled her eyes...... I have a feeling if I do not cash these in by the time I die, someone is going to hit the jackpot cause my wife is taking them to the coin counter......
Anyway, I called and thanked the guy time after time since I had his home contact. Funny thing is that I know he is not a coin guy, so I am trying to think of where he came up with all those wheats. I can only come up with the fact that his mom is like 96 and I am thinking she had a jar of them sitting around and they made their way to me. I gotta be careful how I do it, but I think one day after some time passes, I may get back in touch and see if he has anymore stuff lying around his mom's house he wants to get rid of, like maybe more wheats that might include a 1909 S VDB ...... Hey, a guy can dream!
Yesterday, we had a retirement party for one of the old guys at work. He is a really nice man and taught me a lot over the last couple of years so i was very thankful for that. Well, he decided to give us all a going away present too. After all, he was making out better in the deal as we all had to come to work today and he is going to the islands. Well, over the last two years I gave in and told him about my sickness for sorting copper. We got lots of chuckles over the things I found and just had a good back and forth conversation about pennies, silver, gold, oil, and investments in general.
At his party, he started handing out presents to everyone based on what he knew about them and the things they liked. When he got to me, he whipped out a nice bag of old wheats. Of course my eyes went all big, my wife rolled her eyes in the way many wives do when their husbands derive joy from a hobby they do not understand, and everyone laughed. Then he also whipped out a 1923 Peace Dollar in decent shape to go with them. Of course everyone thought that was cool, and my wife rolled her eyes again.....
So, I got home and decided to crack into the bag of wheats. There were about 3 dollars worth of wheats in the bag. Most were common 40's and 50's dates with about 10 in the pre-1940 range. The oldest was 1919. So as I am in all my glory, I noticed some funny looking ones. Oh Yeah, there were some long lost tribe members lurking in the wheats. Six total! I must say, over the last 3 years of looking through boxes, I have scraped up 6 total, so now my tribe is up to 12. The oldest one was 1891 I believe. As far as wear, they are your typical circulated Indian, but hey, what do I care. I reunited them with their kin already on my collection. I scored copper and silver at work. Wheats, Indians and a Peace Dollar no less. Of course, my wife just rolled her eyes...... I have a feeling if I do not cash these in by the time I die, someone is going to hit the jackpot cause my wife is taking them to the coin counter......
Anyway, I called and thanked the guy time after time since I had his home contact. Funny thing is that I know he is not a coin guy, so I am trying to think of where he came up with all those wheats. I can only come up with the fact that his mom is like 96 and I am thinking she had a jar of them sitting around and they made their way to me. I gotta be careful how I do it, but I think one day after some time passes, I may get back in touch and see if he has anymore stuff lying around his mom's house he wants to get rid of, like maybe more wheats that might include a 1909 S VDB ...... Hey, a guy can dream!