Great trip home

[daveg13]

I was back home for the holiday, and started talking to my Grandparents about coins. They said to come over on Fri. and I could go through all of what they had. So, a couple of hours later after some quick searching we found some good stuff.
1 - Walker
2 - Franklins
14 - '64's
49 - 40% halfs
6 - Standing liberty quarters
7 - 90% Washington quarters
1 - Mercury dime
8 - 90% Rosies
3 - Canadian silver quarters
5 - Buffalo nickels
35 - pre '60 nickels
And 2 big coffee cans full of pennies that have tons of wheaties and pre '82's in them. I'm still going thru the cents and will post some #'s when I'm finished.
But the best part was, they said to take everything! Grandparents are AWESOME!

 

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[daveg13]

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[coinmojo]

So I guess they just had coffie cans filled with change that they have been accumulating over the last 40 -60 years?? more details on their story, Please. Do they have one. Did they help you search. You must have been pretty stoked.

The picture is nice.

As long as I have been collecting and the amount of coins that I search, I still don't have a single standing liberty in my collection.

They are nice.

Mojo

 

[treasurefiend]

Awesome!!! When my grand parents died their old coin stach got split up between my my aunts and uncles and my ma, I got a call one day and my ma gave me her share!!!

 

[BBcardsRI]

Sweet!

Some nice looking coinage you got there!

Silva for the win!

~Dave

 

[daveg13]

So I guess they just had coffie cans filled with change that they have been accumulating over the last 40 -60 years?? more details on their story, Please. Do they have one. Did they help you search. You must have been pretty stoked.

Yep, coffee cans, boxes, etc from who knows when. They just kept bringing stuff out. They were never coin collectors, just always kept their change and never bothered to cash it in. There's more to go thru, when I go back for Christmas. And yes, they helped me search. I went thru the 2 large coffee cans of cents that they gave me and found 361 wheaties, and probably 75% pre '82. Kinda cool when in every handful there is 5 or 6 wheats and you end up with way more "keepers" than rejects.

 

[BBcardsRI]

I have a great Aunt who when she was living by herself had a big jar of change that she would let me look through each time I went to visit her. She would let me pick a coin out to keep. Got a bunch of Franklin halves that way. She has begun to come down with althzheimers, so she is now living in a "home". When they cleaned out her house they found tons of old money. Fiat and coins. I was able to salvage a bunch of the old silver but it sickens me to think of how much was dumped into coinstar machines.

I think all of the money they found went to my Grandmother who is the closest relative to my aunt. I visit my grandparents every week and one day there was a bunch of change around... I commented on it and my grandfather said that it was the last of my Aunts coins they had found that they needed to get rid of and that he would be glad when it was all gone. I got to search through all of it, but I shudder to think how much he had already dumped considering this was "the last of it" and there was still quite a bit there...

When my great aunt would give money out to my Mother and aunts for christmas and such, 90% of the time the bills were like 1950's and older.

She came from the generation where you didn't trust banks because of the great depression.

I believe I was told they used to keep all the money under the matress but were robbed once, yet still continued to keep the money in the house versus the bank.

~Dave