A Christmas surprise

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A Christmas surprise

Postby justoneguy » Mon Dec 26, 2011 6:06 pm

We were opening presents on Christmas morning, when my daughter and son-in law gave me a package.
I open it to see a whitman folder for morgan dollars and Wait was is that ??
It's a small blue box, I can tell right awat that it was a U.S. mint box, but kinda beat up.
They start explaining to me, how hard I am to buy for so, they just threw in an old coin set from when he was a kid.
I look at the box, it says "United States Liberty Coins". Hmm, something sounded familier about that.
Was a "Liberty Coin" an ASE ? No that wasn't it.
I opened the box took a peek at what's inside, then leave the room to get my glasses.
WOW, It really was what I thought it was.
a 1986 commemerative silve dollar, woo hoo !!
But there next to it, there IT was, a $5 liberty gold coin 1/4 oz of US minted gold! :shock: :shock:
then some other no-point of having half dollar.
I tell them right away that this is too much, they can't afford to give me such an expensive gift.
Turns out that He's had it since childhood and played with it a lot.
They had tried to sell this set at a garage sale for $1 last year, but cnoone was interested in it.
I told him that I thought that I could sell it for them for about $450 or so.
It's been a huge topic of discussion how I knew instantly and exactly what i had recieved.
I thank all Ya'all
We agreed that I should sell it and that we would split the cash evenly.
Now I'm thinking of giving them $300 cash for it and keeping my little Christmas miracle coin set
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Re: A Christmas surprise

Postby 68Camaro » Mon Dec 26, 2011 6:24 pm

Excellent! I have several of these. Price fluctuates with the market and demand, and ebay prices are all over the place, but $430 is probably a nominal value for the set. (The gold coin isn't quite a 1/4 oz. The $20 piece wasn't an ounce, as the price of gold wasn't fixed at $20, but $20.67, so a $5 coin is 5/20.67 ounces of gold, or .2419 toz.) They gold goes for $400-ish, and another $25-ish for the dollar. Amazing that they couldn't sell it for $1 - face value alone is $6.50!
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Re: A Christmas surprise

Postby Thogey » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:07 pm

Can you let us know the next time the kids have a garage sale!?
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Re: A Christmas surprise

Postby bman » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:23 pm

Thogey wrote:Can you let us know the next time the kids have a garage sale!?



I was thinking the same thing!!! :shock:
my old Realcent feedback thread: http://realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=171
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Re: A Christmas surprise

Postby NotABigDeal » Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:03 pm

Surprise for sure. Nice gift. Maybe they should go through any coins they have from now on, hehe.

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Re: A Christmas surprise

Postby fb101 » Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:17 pm

That was sweet. Congratulations.
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Re: A Christmas surprise

Postby twentybux » Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:32 pm

Congrats and Merry Christmas!
"If 'ifs and buts' were candies and nuts we'd all have a happy Christmas." -- Coach Jackson (my 8th grade track coach)

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