by uthminsta » Sun Dec 09, 2012 9:49 pm
I have a similar MYSTERY BOX story.
My grandpa has been a coin collector since the 50's. He actually had my mom and her sisters help him go through $50 penny bags way back then. "Back when they ALL weighed 34 pounds," he told me once. You would find an Indian in every few rolls, he says. Imagine being able to put together a roll of Indians with a single bank bag. Anyway, he always said they were looking and looking and looking - for years and years - for the elusive 1955 doubled die.
I told you that in order to set in your mind that he really does know what he's doing. He's owned quite a bit of gold, silver, and beautiful coins over the decades. Bought and sold many thousands of numismatic gems. He has a pretty nice brilliant uncirculated Mexican collection, with each year in a neat display case, a collection I've looked at more than once.
Okay. So a couple years ago, mom comes home from visiting him and Granny, and she has a box. About the size of a medium flat rate. She showed it to me in her closet. She told me she was instructed not to open it until he died.
...and she still hasn't.