Yep the culprits in my case were a couple of early teen neighbors. The
police surmised they were amateurish by the things they took and the
condition they left the house in.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: OT: State Quarters
My parent's home (in Bridgewater, NJ) was the subject of a very
amateurish break-in while they were on vacation. Very little was
taken, except a couple of bottles of liquor and my father's collection
of Indian Head pennies and Buffalo nickles. They were spent in local
stores, leading to the arrest of three teenagers. Like you, my father
recovered almost none of the coins.
Dan
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote:
Long story to follow.....
While working my way thru college, I had a night & weekend job of
delivering
liquor for a local liquor store in New Jersey. Needless to say I handled
alot of change and was sharp enough to know to weed out the silver coins
I
received. Over a few years of doing this I amassed several hundred
dollars
of silver coins.
Fast forward about 15 years....
My new home was burglarized and among some of the things taken were alot
of
those silver coins. I advised the police that most likely these coins
would
be used as every day money. Sure enough after a few days, the police
informed me that a couple of kids had tried to use the coins at a local
7-11
store - merchants in the area had been notified of the robbery and the
possibility of silver coins showing up in every day transactions - the
7-11
owner contacted the police and the kids were arrested. When informed of
this, I asked the merchant if I could get my coins back and was told that
they were not kept, but were given out as change in daily transactions -
YEAH RIGHT - he damm well knew what he had and kept them. I still have
the
remnants of that silver coin collection but nowhere near the quantity
that I
had amassed.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffery Smith"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: OT: State Quarters
In New Orleans, the locals used to refer to dimes (in general) as
"silver
dimes". That threw me for a while since silver dimes had not been made
for
years when I moved here.
I used to run across the occasional Indian Head cent. I guess we are
really dating ourselves with these admissions. ;-)
Jeffery
On Nov 23, 2010, at 8:03 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
When I was a young lad, I would find an Indian Head cent in the change
every now and them. I would go through the cash registers at my
grandfathers butcher shop and my uncle's gas station, looking for
Indian Head pennies and Buffalo nickles.
Dan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]>
wrote:
Actually
right - hence ... :)
Richard (my sweetheart to died in 1993) had a batch of wheaties... I
look
at the pennies I get and I keep finding them
though not many, of course, and not in such good shape but I have a
hundred
or so
ann
Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
One almost never sees "wheaties" or steel cents in circulation any
more.
Dan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]>
wrote:
Now JOhn and I have lots of info :-)
I only mentioned looking for "s' cause John did -- prior to his
email
I
didn't know a thing about it...
aside from thinking it would be cute to have all the states.. or
that
someone MIGHT wnat oe in the distant future,
all I know about coins are what "wheaties" are and if I got a 1943
copper
coin I could get a prety nice price for one.
I have one steel coin from 1943 that I wrote a story about in grade
school... thinking it was the unusual one.... think I
I dentified with being out of step? you betcha
ann
Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Ann:
I'm afraid you won't find many "S" mintmarks. The San Francisco
Mint
no longer makes coins for general circulation. They specialize in
proof coins, which are specially struck to have greater luster, and
special issues.
http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=15253&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=10211
Any "S" or "W" (West Point) mint marks you find are special issues,
not meant for general circulation. If you find one in regular
change,
there is is a good chance it was stolen from someone's collection,
by
someone too stupid to realize its value, who then spent it at face
value instead of selling it as a collectible.
I usually limit myself these days to buying the annual uncirculated
mint sets and proof sets directly from the US Mint.
Dan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]>
wrote:
John -- this is odd ..
I jsut started doing this too.. I have 43 different ones so far -
in
less
than a month... but I hadn't thought about looking at whether they
were
P
or D and didnt know about "S" at all
Im only keeping one of each state to make a set and just though
tit
would
be
nice to have or to save and possibly sell for $1.00 profit or so.
I have to just a magnifier to see which state I have in text but
I'm
getting to know the pictures.
Now I'm gonna want to look at each to see if they have an "S" lol
glad you are recouping I didn't get to wish you well _before_ the
procedure
as I didnt see your post until yesterday...
ann
John Sessoms wrote:
Does anyone know more about the state quarters than I do?
Let me rephrase that ... Does anyone know LESS about the state
quarters
than I do?
I just found something odd. At least it's odd to me.
Ever since the program began, I have tried to keep every one of
the
state
quarters I've received in change. Just tuck 'em into the watch
pocket
on
my
jeans and they tend to pile up around the house. I think I've
spent
less
than $10.00 of the state quarters since 1999.
Mostly because of my east coast location I get 'P' quarters.
Every
once
in
a while I sort through the piles and separate them by state & put
'em
into
plastic tubes.
Any 'D' quarters I get are segregated to a separate pile. I don't
get
enough to justify separate tubes for each state, but I can sort
them
by
year.
Anyway, I'm rambling ...
I needed some change just now and grabbed a dollar's worth out of
the
pile
I hadn't sorted through yet and decided to make sure I wasn't
grabbing
a
'D'
quarter.
Instead, there was a South Carolina 'S' quarter.
I understood the 'S' were all silver proof sets, but this is a
regular
clad quarter.
Try to keep the explanation simple like me. ;-D
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