Are you a ....REAL.... collector?

topstuf

Is your house built of scrap lumber and recycled nails? Do you get charity while you bury your gold and coins? Hah! Thought not.

Here's a REAL collector.

Link to AK Miller collection

Those prices realized for the cars would be .....dead bang BARGAINS..... today.

Russ

Wow! That's very cool in a sad sort of way.

Russ, NCNE

Shamika

Wow!!! I've never seen this story before. And to think what else lurks out there. Amazing.

cladking

I used to sleep in campgrounds so I could drive around looking for banks that had the latest coins
in good shape. The car got 40MPG and even the food was brought along. There's at least a passing similarity.

Gemineye

Interesting ........Irony...........................

CoinOnTheCob

I want to metal detect that property.

alfalfa

Neat story! Thanks for the link.

RJ

pontiacinf

That was a very interesting read

notlogical

<< <i>I want to metal detect that property. >>

CoinOnTheCob

I plagiarized the link and pawned if off as my own on the Metal Detecting forum.

MAD4MORGANS

Yes I am!!

AND KEEP YOUR STINKIN' METAL DETECTOR OUTTA MY BACK YARD!!

CoinOnTheCob

<< AND KEEP YOUR STINKIN' METAL DETECTOR OUTTA MY BACK YARD!! >>

I want to add you to my Christmas-card list, Mad4Morgans, what's your address?

MAD4MORGANS

<< <i><< AND KEEP YOUR STINKIN' METAL DETECTOR OUTTA MY BACK YARD!! >>

I want to add you to my Christmas-card list, Mad4Morgans, what's your address? >>




uhhh....somewhere in Roseville, California!!

CoinOnTheCob

<< AND KEEP YOUR STINKIN' METAL DETECTOR OUTTA MY BACK YARD!! >>

<< I want to add you to my Christmas-card list, Mad4Morgans, what's your address? >>

<< uhhh....somewhere in Roseville, California!! >>


I already 'tected THAT property.

dizzyfoxx

story.

carl

Strange thing there MAD4MORGANS. The plates on those cars look like Illinois plates. Winshield appears to have vehical stickers common to Illinois cities and towns. Photos have a AM stamp on lower right, Sun is out, shadows are long, grass is green and so are trees. Indications are last Summer in the Mid West not California.
However, car in parts next to house indicates Red Neck Back Yard not common in a great state like Illinois.

shirohniichan

I'm not a real collector per se, but I do have some 8 reales. Here's one:

MAD4MORGANS

<< <i>Strange thing there MAD4MORGANS. The plates on those cars look like Illinois plates. Winshield appears to have vehical stickers common to Illinois cities and towns. Photos have a AM stamp on lower right, Sun is out, shadows are long, grass is green and so are trees. Indications are last Summer in the Mid West not California.
However, car in parts next to house indicates Red Neck Back Yard not common in a great state like Illinois. >>



OK, Not California...Forida (See My Profile)

The car out back in my redneck yard is my wife's grandfather's/fathers's old 74 Nova originally from New York State.
The Blue Nova out in the front yard is my 74 Nova originally from Georgia.
And the Vanilla colored one on my front lawn is my son's 74 and I picked that one up in Missouri.

The pictures of the one in back were taken on a different day.

These are not as cool as the ones in the original story... guess compared to them these are probably considered "Modern Crap"!!

LanLord

Wow, ever since I was a little tyke, a Stutz Bearcat (any year) has been a dream car for me.

I'm sure it would be a money pit to keep it going, but what a cool car to own. How cool to own multiples.

Neat story.

TwoSides2aCoin

Yikes.

This reminds me of a story.

I have this friend who's late father ran a credit union. He told me even from his earliest memories (we're both 51) how he remembers his dad coming home from work each night with the coins in the register from the day's business...., going through all of them, writing a check for all the wheats and silver coins each day.

His father passed away about fifteen or twenty years ago, leaving in a safe deposit box, and still there.... twenty one thousand dollars face value in silver roosevelt and mercury dimes. I, er, uh .... um... I about freaked. I suggested to him several times over the past 7 or 8 yrs to let me help his mom organize, and at least pick out some of the cherries for submission, etc, etc..... He said "NO"... She just says to leave 'em. I guess that's okay, too. Knowing how safe those safe deposit boxes are .

Anyway, about a month ago, he calls me up and invites me over to "show" me something. I go to his house and he pulls out an old can full of rolls of mercury dimes, and a small can of loose ones. I asked what this represents. He just said, "well Joe... I went to my mom's yesterday and I was sorting some of the garage out when I came across some rolls of pennies, but as I got to looking, I noticed they were these dimes."

To shorten the story, the hundred or so that I looked at were MERCURY dimes from the thirties and forties... VG up to AU
.... I couldn't believe my eyes as I started looking. About ten minutes in, I asked him how many he found in the garage and he says, "um, over seven hundred dollars in face value".

So, once again, I asked what he or his mom wanted to do.....I pleaded and tried to persuade him to let me help his mom out and catalogue and sort, or to at least pull some cherries for grading. He says, "no way Joe, she doesn't even know these are out in the garage... I only took a few to show you.
I'll sneak these back ,tell her that she has a few coins she needs to get from the garage to the safe deposit box,".....

At this point, I smiled and said,

"well, if that's how you guys wish to proceed with this, far be it from me to get in the way",

to which he replied,
" hey , she don't need the money"...

To which I replied,
"OBVIOUSLY".

It goes through my mind at least three or four times per year about that stash (usually as I check silver prices). We can only imagine what treasures stay buried and how the value only rises, even from the ashes.

One must ask himself at which point in one's life does he choose to help others build their dreams or hoard away the riches and treasures unto the grave.

I personally do not care as the game of coins is just me looking for perfection, and I know, as a believer, that there isn't a perfect coin... but, as a natural man, I think : "WTF are these people's main malfunctions in life ?"

... some things just don't make sense to me, but bless you all this Sunday morn.

MAD4MORGANS

Show her how much they go for on eBay!!

And then show how much some go when they are graded.

dwssws

I guess I am not a REAL collector cause I don't have any cars up on blocks in my yard.

very interesting story! thanks for sharing