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Just saw these stories the past couple days...the first link was on Coinflation (today, I think) and the second one was actually in my former hometown of Owensboro, Ky., this week!

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sectio ... id=9350208

http://www.14news.com/story/24176991/go ... red-kettle

http://www.ketv.com/news/local-news/rar ... index.html

http://kfor.com/2013/12/04/salvation-ar ... -donation/

Looks like we have Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska and Oklahoma so far!

hobo finds wrote:http://www.ketv.com/news/local-news/rare-gold-coin-found-in-salvation-army-red-kettle/-/9674510/23249576/-/5pt3m7z/-/index.html

http://kfor.com/2013/12/04/salvation-ar ... -donation/

Looks like we have Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska and Oklahoma so far!

We get them in NE every year. Has to be the same person (persons), but there usually are a few each year. If we did not have that happen some year around here, that would be news.

EDIT: Just read the news story, That is a dinky one (1/10'th oz). Usually there are a couple 1 ounce coins dropped. At least they were smart enough to drop a slabbed coin. There have simply been 'loose' gold dropped. I would be worried that it would get missed, and simply dropped into some coin counter. Hmmm, thinking of that, it would not be out of the realm of thought of having a happy coin-star find, or bank counter reject find. But I would be that SA looks pretty closely for silver or gold around here, because it happens every year.

I just realized there was a photo of the note enclosed with the gold coin in Owensboro--pretty cool message!

http://www.katv.com/story/24193998/conw ... -in-kettle

Arkansas

http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/2013/1 ... ok/?page=2

Another Illinois here

And Another Illinois here! They must be doing well in Illinois! http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013 ... ation-army

not sure if this is the same one but I don't think so... http://www.commercial-news.com/local/x6 ... rps-kettle

North Caralina here... http://www.wxii12.com/news/local-news/p ... index.html

I cant believe so many get donated!!

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/e ... c5b00.html

http://blog.al.com/live/2013/12/salvati ... ld_in.html

Alabama

http://www.kokomotribune.com/local/x601 ... rmy-kettle

Indiana

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/421015/

North Dakota

A lot of Krugerrands donated so far!

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2013 ... 1361/rss41

Michigan

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/f ... -Donations

Iowa

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/e ... 92f14.html

Maryland

Iowa again...

http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/update ... f6186.html

http://murrayledger.com/news/salvation- ... 963f4.html

Kentucky

You know this made me wonder how many ASEs or other silver they might take in and not realize what they have. I was thinking of dropping an ASE on my next shopping trip but it will probably be lost in the shuffle.

Treetop wrote:You know this made me wonder how many ASEs or other silver they might take in and not realize what they have. I was thinking of dropping an ASE on my next shopping trip but it will probably be lost in the shuffle.

Funny when I do a search for these I type in "valuable coins donated to Salvation Army" and thought I would find some silver by now.

Treetop wrote:You know this made me wonder how many ASEs or other silver they might take in and not realize what they have. I was thinking of dropping an ASE on my next shopping trip but it will probably be lost in the shuffle.

Put a note with it.

Oregon

http://www.koin.com/news/washington-cou ... red-kettle

And from Portland, I wonder if they came from the Portland Mint

Oklahoma and some Silver also...

http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/sec ... n-s/ncNJr/

Oregon again

http://www.kptv.com/story/24257034/valu ... -beaverton

Tennessee

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article ... gold-again

Florida diamond ring

http://www.examiner.com/article/salvati ... red-kettle

South Dakota

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/ ... ebb44.html

odd finds from across nation

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... 2775927838

more Illinois

http://algonquin.patch.com/groups/goodn ... -algonquin

some are repeated I think. But big total for this county 19 coins so far!