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Skriven 2009-10-18 18:59:00 av John Guillory (1:396/60)
     Kommentar till en text av Roy Witt
Ärende: Re: Real coins and junk (was: Newspapers)
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RW>  BA> The one I saw at the bank was struck by the US mint and IS legal
RW>  BA> tender - although why somebody'd pay $21.50 for a coin that has a
RW>  BA> face value of $10 escapes me.  Obviously people do it, though.
RW> While looking for that buckle, I found a coin collection that I'd
RW> completely forgotten. It includes two silver dollars, one with the old
RW> liberty face and one with the new liberty face (1921 vs 1922)...They're
RW> both worth 20 times their face value and even more in metal value. Yet,
RW> I've heard of people taking a coin collection like that and spending it.
RW> They're usually a young person who found dad's coin collection and used it
RW> to buy some pop and candy, then play the pin-ball machines with whats
RW> left.
    Granted, everybody has their perseption of "young", but In the gas
station I work at, I had someone pay for $5 in gas and turned in 5 $1
silver dollars, including one that is still in a un-circulated plastic
case.... (o.k. technically it was "circulated", but it's still in its
collectors case, and I paid $5 for all the silver dollars with I forgot
what % silver (think like .25% silver) in each.... Certainly worth more
than that and he knew it!  The dude was like 40-45 years old... Granted, my
brother-in-law is in his 50's, and my mom and I have to hide our stash of
coines, as we wouldn't dear let him find out we have some valuable coines,
or he'd trade them for a pack of cigarettes....


With that in mind, I'd venture to say that young kids are the last people
I'd expect to spend a valuable coin like that.... In fact, most the folks
at hte store would tell them to bring it back to their parents.... Now for
an adult that's a moron... Yeah, we'll take it! 

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