dg39
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- Mar 30, 2006
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How many penneys can fit in a 1950's Tennis Ball Can.
Been meaning to tell this tale but never got a chance to sit down and think about the details. About 15 years ago I ran in to a friend of my family who was elderly. He lived in a home that was built in the middle thirtys. I had asked him several times if I could MD his yard and he had always said call him and we would see. So, one day I just happened to see him on his front porch. I stoped my car , pulled my trusty White's 6000 out of the back seat and said to him, lets see what we can find. OK , he said and we started sweeping the yard. About an hour later and if I remember right six or seven coins..Wheats and one buffalo and some jeffersons we decided to quit. He said come on in and lets have a coke. We went into the house and sat at the dining room table for about a half an hour as I recounted some of my MD adventures.
After a while he said, you know something, I've got something you might be interested in. I said, OK, what? He went to a side board by the table and rummaged around inside for a moment and took out an old 1940's or 50's metal tennis ball can. The kind that held three balls. Sat it down on the table and said, you know I had forgotten about this untill we started talking about coins. He told me this story. His mom and dad owned a general store in Ohio around 1910 to 1920. Indian head penneys were going out of circulation and every time they got one in change they would put it in a box.
When they closed the store , I understand there was a box full of indian heads. My friend ended up with them and sometime during the 1950's put them in a metal tennis ball can. He poped the lid and out cascaded over three hundred Indian head Penneys! He said if you like I will sell them to you, I have no use for them. I did not even bother to check the dates. he counted them and I asked how much. His anwser was.. is 35 cents each too much? Needless to say I left with the tennis ball can and over 300 Indian Head Penneys. Over the years I have sold the early ones, but I still have several hundred from the 1850's on.. If I can find the Can, I'll take a photo of it. Its in a box somewhere.. I've got the penneys in holders and dated. Its just one of those things that happen once in a life time and when you least expect it.
Fun to remember, hope you enjoyed it. I'll try to find the can if enough are interested in seeing it. And I can take a photo of a big pile of the coins.
DG
Been meaning to tell this tale but never got a chance to sit down and think about the details. About 15 years ago I ran in to a friend of my family who was elderly. He lived in a home that was built in the middle thirtys. I had asked him several times if I could MD his yard and he had always said call him and we would see. So, one day I just happened to see him on his front porch. I stoped my car , pulled my trusty White's 6000 out of the back seat and said to him, lets see what we can find. OK , he said and we started sweeping the yard. About an hour later and if I remember right six or seven coins..Wheats and one buffalo and some jeffersons we decided to quit. He said come on in and lets have a coke. We went into the house and sat at the dining room table for about a half an hour as I recounted some of my MD adventures.
After a while he said, you know something, I've got something you might be interested in. I said, OK, what? He went to a side board by the table and rummaged around inside for a moment and took out an old 1940's or 50's metal tennis ball can. The kind that held three balls. Sat it down on the table and said, you know I had forgotten about this untill we started talking about coins. He told me this story. His mom and dad owned a general store in Ohio around 1910 to 1920. Indian head penneys were going out of circulation and every time they got one in change they would put it in a box.
When they closed the store , I understand there was a box full of indian heads. My friend ended up with them and sometime during the 1950's put them in a metal tennis ball can. He poped the lid and out cascaded over three hundred Indian head Penneys! He said if you like I will sell them to you, I have no use for them. I did not even bother to check the dates. he counted them and I asked how much. His anwser was.. is 35 cents each too much? Needless to say I left with the tennis ball can and over 300 Indian Head Penneys. Over the years I have sold the early ones, but I still have several hundred from the 1850's on.. If I can find the Can, I'll take a photo of it. Its in a box somewhere.. I've got the penneys in holders and dated. Its just one of those things that happen once in a life time and when you least expect it.
Fun to remember, hope you enjoyed it. I'll try to find the can if enough are interested in seeing it. And I can take a photo of a big pile of the coins.
DG
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