From: Ann Sanfedele
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
I'm not really a coin collector, but I tend to latch on to any oddities
that pass through my hands, simply because they're fun. I still find
occasional wheat pennies and more rarely still run across a steel penny.
When I was at Target, I was the go-to guy for odd money; the "A guest
wants to pay with this. Is it real money?" guy.
"Sure. It's real, you just don't see them that often any more. I'll take
that one if you want me to, and give you this one in its place, then you
won't have to worry about it." 8^D
Got a $5.00 US Treasury Note (just like a regular Federal Reserve Note
except that the serial number is red ink and it says U.S. Treasury
instead of Federal Reserve); several two dollar bills - bi-centennial
and non-bicentennial versions, even a $2.00 silver certificate once.
A few other silver certificates, several silver dimes and an Indian Head
penny. Some Kennedy silver half dollars, an Eisenhower dollar or two and
a Peace dollar.
Even got a "don't give a damn about a greenback dollar" Greenback Dollar.
I was always up-front about it, "I don't know what it's worth, but you
could take that out to the coin guy at the flea market and he'd probably
buy it from you."
It's interesting how quickly the value piles up if you just make a
decision not to spend any of the State Quarters (or DC/Territory and the
new America the Beautiful series) when they're in your change.
I'd come home with 2 - 5 quarters every day, which is $200 - $400 a year
even if none of them is ever worth more than face value.
A couple of them *are* worth more than face value. I've run across some
error quarters. Nothing major, just obstructed die or rotated die
sufficient that it's worth anywhere from $0.50 - $10.00.
And, I'll take a silver quarter as change any time someone wants to give
me one. Won't squawk about it one bit either.
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