@tradedollarnut said:
I agree that a true 75-P chop of that condition is a $10k coin. So damn rare - in 20 years of looking this was as close as I could find
Other than scarcity, what makes this date/MM so valuable?
@tradedollarnut said:
I agree that a true 75-P chop of that condition is a $10k coin. So damn rare - in 20 years of looking this was as close as I could find
Other than scarcity, what makes this date/MM so valuable?
Most of the coins sent to China were from the west coast mints - even with ample mintages in other years the Philly coins with chopmark’s are scarce.. 1875 limited production from Philly appears to have stayed stateside thus leading to a rarity
@Tramp said:
I was told that my grandmother hid cash in all her coats and pant pockets. That way no matter what she was wearing she would always have cash on her. Must have been "The Greatest Generation" things to do.
It was a Depression Child thing to do. My Mother’s Father went 18 months without earning a nickel, and Ma always had to have some cash stashed in the house “just in case.”
Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author of "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
@Tramp said:
I was told that my grandmother hid cash in all her coats and pant pockets. That way no matter what she was wearing she would always have cash on her. Must have been "The Greatest Generation" things to do.
It was a Depression Child thing to do. My Mother’s Father went 18 months without earning a nickel, and Ma always had to have some cash stashed in the house “just in case.”
My parents bought a house in the 1960s and eventually found a few glass jars filled with silver dollars buried in the backyard. As a kid when I would hear this story, I could never wrap my head around it.
The Great depression had such an impact on people who lived through it as well as their children.
@Namvet69 said:
Okay, I'll bite. What exactly were you looking for in the first place? Peace Roy
Ha! My wife wanted half of my home office closet so I was just cleaning out space
That is so cool. Some time ago I was going through a stack of old envelopes in a closet drawer that I wa cleaning out and came across a high relief Saint that I had completely forgotten about. It could just as well have been tossed out with the other envelopes that contained worthless dated paid bills.
@Tramp said:
I was told that my grandmother hid cash in all her coats and pant pockets. That way no matter what she was wearing she would always have cash on her. Must have been "The Greatest Generation" things to do.
It was a Depression Child thing to do. My Mother’s Father went 18 months without earning a nickel, and Ma always had to have some cash stashed in the house “just in case.”
My parents bought a house in the 1960s and eventually found a few glass jars filled with silver dollars buried in the backyard. As a kid when I would hear this story, I could never wrap my head around it.
The Great depression had such an impact on people who lived through it as well as their children.
Back in the mid-80's when I was working at a coin shop in Chicago, a family came in, older Mother, big husky son plus his wife and kids. The guy was straining under the weight of a sturdy wooden box. I directed him and the mother into a private room while the wife and kids waited outside.
Story: The Mother's husband, who guessing from her age was probably a Depression child, had recently died suddenly. He had not trusted banks, and some years earlier had converted a large portion of their "nest egg" into gold and silver, which he buried in the back yard in Mason jars. Mother did not have any idea what he had, and did not know where anything was. No list, map, etc. Big strong son dug up the entire back yard two feet deep, house to alley, side to side. Every now and then he found a jar. He was unable to discern any grid or pattern to them. The jars were in the box.
I grabbed a bunch of trays and started going through the jars. The Dollars were all of two common dates, possibly 1885-O and 1886-P IIRC. Sorting and stacking them by 20's I came up with exactly 1,000 of each. Obviously he had bought two original bags and divvyed them up.
One jar contained common circ. $20 Libs. Slightly over 100 pieces, again IIRC. I came up with a nice number, which surprised her it was that much. She accepted the offer, but then confessed that she was worried sick that the son might have missed something. I explained to her that since the dollars totaled exactly 1,000 each, it was probably two original bags and that the Son had probably gotten them all. This reassured her somewhat, but she was still worried that there might be another jar of gold down there. I could not help her there, but gave the Son some advice about metal detectors. They never came back, so I assumed that he never found anything else.
I had a co-worker once who told me a story about how when his widowed father had died, he had to clean out a rather cluttered apartment. There was a stack of old newspapers several feet high, and as he was grabbing handfuls of the papers to toss them into garbage bags he suddenly saw four $100 bills atop the rest of the stack. He unbagged what he had bagged and went through all of the newspapers page by page and found thousands of dollars in currency. There were other things hidden in the apartment.
At least I knew where my Mother's cash stash was. She had bought some fake electrical outlet boxes that she had mounted inside various closets. She had showed me where they were once, but since I was out of state when she went I told my Sister to plug a lamp into every outlet in the house. The ones that did not work were the fakes.
Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author of "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
@Tramp said:
I was told that my grandmother hid cash in all her coats and pant pockets. That way no matter what she was wearing she would always have cash on her. Must have been "The Greatest Generation" things to do.
It was a Depression Child thing to do. My Mother’s Father went 18 months without earning a nickel, and Ma always had to have some cash stashed in the house “just in case.”
My parents bought a house in the 1960s and eventually found a few glass jars filled with silver dollars buried in the backyard. As a kid when I would hear this story, I could never wrap my head around it.
The Great depression had such an impact on people who lived through it as well as their children.
Back in the mid-80's when I was working at a coin shop in Chicago, a family came in, older Mother, big husky son plus his wife and kids. The guy was straining under the weight of a sturdy wooden box. I directed him and the mother into a private room while the wife and kids waited outside.
Story: The Mother's husband, who guessing from her age was probably a Depression child, had recently died suddenly. He had not trusted banks, and some years earlier had converted a large portion of their "nest egg" into gold and silver, which he buried in the back yard in Mason jars. Mother did not have any idea what he had, and did not know where anything was. No list, map, etc. Big strong son dug up the entire back yard two feet deep, house to alley, side to side. Every now and then he found a jar. He was unable to discern any grid or pattern to them. The jars were in the box.
I grabbed a bunch of trays and started going through the jars. The Dollars were all of two common dates, possibly 1885-O and 1886-P IIRC. Sorting and stacking them by 20's I came up with exactly 1,000 of each. Obviously he had bought two original bags and divvyed them up.
One jar contained common circ. $20 Libs. Slightly over 100 pieces, again IIRC. I came up with a nice number, which surprised her it was that much. She accepted the offer, but then confessed that she was worried sick that the son might have missed something. I explained to her that since the dollars totaled exactly 1,000 each, it was probably two original bags and that the Son had probably gotten them all. This reassured her somewhat, but she was still worried that there might be another jar of gold down there. I could not help her there, but gave the Son some advice about metal detectors. They never came back, so I assumed that he never found anything else.
I had a co-worker once who told me a story about how when his widowed father had died, he had to clean out a rather cluttered apartment. There was a stack of old newspapers several feet high, and as he was grabbing handfuls of the papers to toss them into garbage bags he suddenly saw four $100 bills atop the rest of the stack. He unbagged what he had bagged and went through all of the newspapers page by page and found thousands of dollars in currency. There were other things hidden in the apartment.
At least I knew where my Mother's cash stash was. She had bought some fake electrical outlet boxes that she had mounted inside various closets. She had showed me where they were once, but since I was out of state when she went I told my Sister to plug a lamp into every outlet in the house. The ones that did not work were the fakes.
That is absolutely wild! A backyard turned into an archeological excavation lol!
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Other than scarcity, what makes this date/MM so valuable?
Most of the coins sent to China were from the west coast mints - even with ample mintages in other years the Philly coins with chopmark’s are scarce.. 1875 limited production from Philly appears to have stayed stateside thus leading to a rarity
It was a Depression Child thing to do. My Mother’s Father went 18 months without earning a nickel, and Ma always had to have some cash stashed in the house “just in case.”
My parents bought a house in the 1960s and eventually found a few glass jars filled with silver dollars buried in the backyard. As a kid when I would hear this story, I could never wrap my head around it.
The Great depression had such an impact on people who lived through it as well as their children.
CAC | PCGS | NGC
That is so cool. Some time ago I was going through a stack of old envelopes in a closet drawer that I wa cleaning out and came across a high relief Saint that I had completely forgotten about. It could just as well have been tossed out with the other envelopes that contained worthless dated paid bills.
Definitely an adrenaline rush.
Back in the mid-80's when I was working at a coin shop in Chicago, a family came in, older Mother, big husky son plus his wife and kids. The guy was straining under the weight of a sturdy wooden box. I directed him and the mother into a private room while the wife and kids waited outside.
Story: The Mother's husband, who guessing from her age was probably a Depression child, had recently died suddenly. He had not trusted banks, and some years earlier had converted a large portion of their "nest egg" into gold and silver, which he buried in the back yard in Mason jars. Mother did not have any idea what he had, and did not know where anything was. No list, map, etc. Big strong son dug up the entire back yard two feet deep, house to alley, side to side. Every now and then he found a jar. He was unable to discern any grid or pattern to them. The jars were in the box.
I grabbed a bunch of trays and started going through the jars. The Dollars were all of two common dates, possibly 1885-O and 1886-P IIRC. Sorting and stacking them by 20's I came up with exactly 1,000 of each. Obviously he had bought two original bags and divvyed them up.
One jar contained common circ. $20 Libs. Slightly over 100 pieces, again IIRC. I came up with a nice number, which surprised her it was that much. She accepted the offer, but then confessed that she was worried sick that the son might have missed something. I explained to her that since the dollars totaled exactly 1,000 each, it was probably two original bags and that the Son had probably gotten them all. This reassured her somewhat, but she was still worried that there might be another jar of gold down there. I could not help her there, but gave the Son some advice about metal detectors. They never came back, so I assumed that he never found anything else.
I had a co-worker once who told me a story about how when his widowed father had died, he had to clean out a rather cluttered apartment. There was a stack of old newspapers several feet high, and as he was grabbing handfuls of the papers to toss them into garbage bags he suddenly saw four $100 bills atop the rest of the stack. He unbagged what he had bagged and went through all of the newspapers page by page and found thousands of dollars in currency. There were other things hidden in the apartment.
At least I knew where my Mother's cash stash was. She had bought some fake electrical outlet boxes that she had mounted inside various closets. She had showed me where they were once, but since I was out of state when she went I told my Sister to plug a lamp into every outlet in the house. The ones that did not work were the fakes.
Sorry, but how the H*ll do you misplace that?!?
That is absolutely wild! A backyard turned into an archeological excavation lol!
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WOW - this had have been a thrill to find
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