Oh I forgot my finds didn't stop there...

[Pete in MI]

Sherry and I went to a restaurant and this is what I got back in the change. Very detailed.

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[steve in so la]

go wrong that day ! Neat old finds, if I was rich I'd jet back and beat the other Steve to that field with you Steve in so az

 

[fishingone]

Thats great, my wife is a manager at a store and you would not believe what she brings home each night! Lets just say there is allot of silver still floating around out there!

 

[Pete in MI]

If I was rich Steve we'd be having a forum hunt up here and I'd pay everyone's way.

 

[Pete in MI]

Welcome to the forum. I think what is happening is there are a lot of old people who collected Wheats and silver coins over the years. As the old folk are passing away the younger generation doesn't know the value of what their parents and grandparents had so they just use it for money...or take it to one of those machines that give you less than you put in to convert it to dollars. Whoever owns those machines are making a killing both in what they get to keep (percentage of what is put in) and all those old coins.

My wife's grandmother had amassed a large collection of wheat pennies over the years and she passed away a few years back. Her sister wound up with her house and all the contents - including all these rolls and roll and rolls of wheat pennies. They didn't keep hardly anything of what grandma used to have. Where it all went is anyone's guess but we know that the Sister and her kids did not have the value in place that the grandma had on them. We gave the grandma an antique magnifying glass once as a gift. Her eyesight was failing and this was a great gift. We asked if it was possible to get the manifying glass but was told 'everything was taken out to the curb'.

Sad.

Anyway, again welcome to the forum. Do you get much detecint in?

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

n/t

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

Glad to have ya here! God bless!

Mike

 

[steve in so la]

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[Anonymous]

Pete that is

 

[Jamie(MI)]

Missed you up north. We will do it another time.

 

[Pete in MI]

n/t