<< <i>desk? what desk? you mean the laptop on the coffee table stacked with so much stuff there's no room to set down a drink?..
i used to have a dining table too..
yes, that's all Silver that was literally socked away (see the sock?).. for decades.. tell ya the story some time if anyone cares..
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Say, hrlaser.... we need the rest of the silver in the sock story.
I hope it's not a murder mystery. Ouch!!! >>
okay.. i have some time since i'm done writing for the month.. here's the story.. that's not actually my dining table.. ("and that's not my knee! /slap!").. it's in the home of the 85 year old Mom of a High School classmate of mine (we had our fortieth Reunion a couple of months ago.. Class of 1967, Summer'o'Love, baby)..
anyway.. i've know their family since High School.. they are VERY wealthy.. the Dad, who was in his mid 80s, formerly owned a valve company.. retired, made a fortune.. so the family is quite wealthy.. back in 1964 when he learned that Silver was going to vanish from circulating coinage, he socked away a LOT of it.. he bought rolls and rolls of circulated and Uncirculated dimes, quarters, and Halves, (you can see some of the original paper-wrapped rolls on the table).. stuffed them into clean white socks, and put them in a floor safe in their home. all bought at face value at banks.. i'd reckon about $1000.00 face, give or take..
well sadly, he passed away last year after a stroke the year before.. he was a fun guy to be around and chat with.. former WWII AF flying ace.. the Mom, a former nurse, is still quite mobile, drives, owns multiple homes, even bought herself a Chrysler 300 Hemi a year ago (when he was alive, she wated a new car and went to a nearby Chrysler dealer and told the salesman she needed a sedan into which she could get his wheelchair in the trunk.. drove off the lot in a freakin' 300 Hemi.. i had to explain to her what a Hemi was).. "it's really fast" she told me.. heh.. no $#!+..
so when the Daughter, my High School classmate, is down from Oregoon visiting her Mom at the family home (where the Mom lives alone).. the Mom knew i collected coins and knew a thing or two and said "I want to show you what [the late Dad] stashed away.. let me bring it all out and maybe you can tell me what it all is and what it's worth".. she went into their bedroom and got down and opened up the floor safe and brought out two BUCKETS filled to the brim with those white socks, which were filled with roll after endless roll of Silver.. about 90% of it was 1964-D stuff.. about 75% of it in solid bank rolls that he had bought 43 years ago and NEVER opened..
first, i had to explain to them do NOT NOT NOT take this stuff to a bank and cash it in.. it's all Silver and worth MANY times face value which is all a bank will give you (i explained about how 1964 was the last year of circulating Silver).. do NOT NOT dump it into a CoinStar machine.. what we need to do is to get a mountain of plastic coin tubes for the different denominations and break open these paper rolls and see what you have and then tube all of it..
the Mom flipped through the Yellow Pages and found a local hole-in-the-wall coin store which was open that weekend, hopped in her Hemi (sigh).. went and bought a few dozen tubes, and came back.. meanwhile, the Daughter and i were breaking open the rolls and separating the Gem Uncirculated stuff from the circulated stuff.. there were MANY circulated rolls of Franklin Halves which he had apparently either pulled from change or bought at the bank.. a couple dozen rolls each of 1964-D dimes, Quarters and Kennedy Halves.. plus a couple of rolls worth of MorgEns, a smattering of Mercury dimes, and WLHs.. and ONE SLQ.. ONE..
my tongue was hanging out like Homer Simpson facing a platter of pork chops.. i couldn't believe what i was looking at..
spent the better part of an afternoon tubing all of this Silver which then went back into the floor safe.. although to reward me for my time and knowledge, the Mom let me keep those Gem 1964-D Quarters i had separated out as the best that passed in front of me and put into flips (near the bottom of the photograph)..
she also brought out three other tubes.. two were filled solid with 1998 1oz AGEs, and one with 1998 1oz APEs.. apparently the Dad had "invested" in those too.. why in 1998 i had no idea.. but i was sitting there with well over $20,000.00 worth of Gold and Platinum in my hands in three tubes as a thought flashe through my mind "how fast could i dash out of this house, into my car".. but nah, i wouldn't steal from old friends anyway.. but i had never held that much Gold and Platinum in my hands at one time in my life.. when she handed me the roll of 1 oz. APEs and i opened it and my jaw hit the floor she said "What are those? are they Silver DollErs?".. i had to explain to her that they were 1 oz Platinum Eagles worth (at that time) about a thousand bucks each..
there was another HALF-filled tube of 1998 1 oz AGEs.. i asked why half a tube?.. she told me that while the Dad had been in the hospital after his stroke, he had her bring him a roll of AGEs andn was TIPPING THE DOCTORS AND NURSES with them.. oy!..
anyway, except for a couple dozen Gem 1964-D Quarters in flips and one roll of mixed circulated 1964-D Quarters they gave me to keep (i've looked through the tube and i'd say oh.. XF to MS63 probably).. all of that stuff on the table went back into the socks, back into the two buckets, and back into the floor safe.. oh, she let me keep the ONE SLQ that came out of that hoard too.. (it's sitting by itself on a pad of paper on the right.. in that picture.. i took more shots of the table from other angles).. nuthin' special.. it's a 1925 worn down to about AG..
there are still at least a half dozen rools of Halves in their original 1964 paper bank rolls (visible in the picture).. because she didn't buy enough plastic tubes and i have told her i'd like to buy a couple of those still-sealed-taped paper rolls, but since the two women travel between three different homes a lot and the floor safe is a huge pain to get into (tricky combination and you literally have to get down on your stomach to get at it).. that hasn't happened yet.. but will, eventually.. i hope..
so that's the story.. i only wish that was my hoard.. unfortunately, it's not.. but i got a tiny sampling of it to keep for helping them out.. they were quite literally clueless about Silver and what it's all worth.. but i was up front and honest with them and luckily stopped them from doing something monumentally stupid, like turning it all in at a bank..
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.." - John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
desk is clean, but my drawers are stuffed with coins ie Kennedy's, IKE's, modern dimes, nickles and pennies - seems that Im always looking and stashing way nice, circulated, any date, mint modern issues for a rainy day - probably not in my lifetime, but maybe my heirs will benefit.
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<< <i>desk? what desk? you mean the laptop on the coffee table stacked with so much stuff there's no room to set down a drink?..
i used to have a dining table too..
yes, that's all Silver that was literally socked away (see the sock?).. for decades.. tell ya the story some time if anyone cares..
>>
Say, hrlaser.... we need the rest of the silver in the sock story.
I hope it's not a murder mystery. Ouch!!! >>
okay.. i have some time since i'm done writing for the month.. here's the story.. that's not actually my dining table.. ("and that's not my knee! /slap!").. it's in the home of the 85 year old Mom of a High School classmate of mine (we had our fortieth Reunion a couple of months ago.. Class of 1967, Summer'o'Love, baby)..
anyway.. i've know their family since High School.. they are VERY wealthy.. the Dad, who was in his mid 80s, formerly owned a valve company.. retired, made a fortune.. so the family is quite wealthy.. back in 1964 when he learned that Silver was going to vanish from circulating coinage, he socked away a LOT of it.. he bought rolls and rolls of circulated and Uncirculated dimes, quarters, and Halves, (you can see some of the original paper-wrapped rolls on the table).. stuffed them into clean white socks, and put them in a floor safe in their home. all bought at face value at banks.. i'd reckon about $1000.00 face, give or take..
well sadly, he passed away last year after a stroke the year before.. he was a fun guy to be around and chat with.. former WWII AF flying ace.. the Mom, a former nurse, is still quite mobile, drives, owns multiple homes, even bought herself a Chrysler 300 Hemi a year ago (when he was alive, she wated a new car and went to a nearby Chrysler dealer and told the salesman she needed a sedan into which she could get his wheelchair in the trunk.. drove off the lot in a freakin' 300 Hemi.. i had to explain to her what a Hemi was).. "it's really fast" she told me.. heh.. no $#!+..
so when the Daughter, my High School classmate, is down from Oregoon visiting her Mom at the family home (where the Mom lives alone).. the Mom knew i collected coins and knew a thing or two and said "I want to show you what [the late Dad] stashed away.. let me bring it all out and maybe you can tell me what it all is and what it's worth".. she went into their bedroom and got down and opened up the floor safe and brought out two BUCKETS filled to the brim with those white socks, which were filled with roll after endless roll of Silver.. about 90% of it was 1964-D stuff.. about 75% of it in solid bank rolls that he had bought 43 years ago and NEVER opened..
first, i had to explain to them do NOT NOT NOT take this stuff to a bank and cash it in.. it's all Silver and worth MANY times face value which is all a bank will give you (i explained about how 1964 was the last year of circulating Silver).. do NOT NOT dump it into a CoinStar machine.. what we need to do is to get a mountain of plastic coin tubes for the different denominations and break open these paper rolls and see what you have and then tube all of it..
the Mom flipped through the Yellow Pages and found a local hole-in-the-wall coin store which was open that weekend, hopped in her Hemi (sigh).. went and bought a few dozen tubes, and came back.. meanwhile, the Daughter and i were breaking open the rolls and separating the Gem Uncirculated stuff from the circulated stuff.. there were MANY circulated rolls of Franklin Halves which he had apparently either pulled from change or bought at the bank.. a couple dozen rolls each of 1964-D dimes, Quarters and Kennedy Halves.. plus a couple of rolls worth of MorgEns, a smattering of Mercury dimes, and WLHs.. and ONE SLQ.. ONE..
my tongue was hanging out like Homer Simpson facing a platter of pork chops.. i couldn't believe what i was looking at..
spent the better part of an afternoon tubing all of this Silver which then went back into the floor safe.. although to reward me for my time and knowledge, the Mom let me keep those Gem 1964-D Quarters i had separated out as the best that passed in front of me and put into flips (near the bottom of the photograph)..
she also brought out three other tubes.. two were filled solid with 1998 1oz AGEs, and one with 1998 1oz APEs.. apparently the Dad had "invested" in those too.. why in 1998 i had no idea.. but i was sitting there with well over $20,000.00 worth of Gold and Platinum in my hands in three tubes as a thought flashe through my mind "how fast could i dash out of this house, into my car".. but nah, i wouldn't steal from old friends anyway.. but i had never held that much Gold and Platinum in my hands at one time in my life.. when she handed me the roll of 1 oz. APEs and i opened it and my jaw hit the floor she said "What are those? are they Silver DollErs?".. i had to explain to her that they were 1 oz Platinum Eagles worth (at that time) about a thousand bucks each..
there was another HALF-filled tube of 1998 1 oz AGEs.. i asked why half a tube?.. she told me that while the Dad had been in the hospital after his stroke, he had her bring him a roll of AGEs andn was TIPPING THE DOCTORS AND NURSES with them.. oy!..
anyway, except for a couple dozen Gem 1964-D Quarters in flips and one roll of mixed circulated 1964-D Quarters they gave me to keep (i've looked through the tube and i'd say oh.. XF to MS63 probably).. all of that stuff on the table went back into the socks, back into the two buckets, and back into the floor safe.. oh, she let me keep the ONE SLQ that came out of that hoard too.. (it's sitting by itself on a pad of paper on the right.. in that picture.. i took more shots of the table from other angles).. nuthin' special.. it's a 1925 worn down to about AG..
there are still at least a half dozen rools of Halves in their original 1964 paper bank rolls (visible in the picture).. because she didn't buy enough plastic tubes and i have told her i'd like to buy a couple of those still-sealed-taped paper rolls, but since the two women travel between three different homes a lot and the floor safe is a huge pain to get into (tricky combination and you literally have to get down on your stomach to get at it).. that hasn't happened yet.. but will, eventually.. i hope..
so that's the story.. i only wish that was my hoard.. unfortunately, it's not.. but i got a tiny sampling of it to keep for helping them out.. they were quite literally clueless about Silver and what it's all worth.. but i was up front and honest with them and luckily stopped them from doing something monumentally stupid, like turning it all in at a bank.. >>
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Glad to know that I am not the only one that keeps odd food around on my desk. I have one right had drawer that is filled with just sugar - bubblegum, candy, cookies, etc.
The desk looks bad now, but it was much worse before I had to move things to a second desk. Notice all the Auction catalogues on the fireplace, you may not see it, but I'm displaying currency inside the fireplace. The large clamp on magnifier is for getting a close look at the coins/currency on my monitor when visiting web sites.
Recent purchase. Set up a desk in the Guest Rm. Two monitors and two cyclops for when I can get help.
The suitcase is full of Whitmans. Various denominations in the buckets.
The desk in the closet is the funniest thing. Hope you have a skylight in there. Actually, I owned a business once that was short on space. I took out the toilet/sink in a very small second bathroom, put in two file cabinets and a counter on top of them for a desk. Sometimes a customer that wandered around ended up going into my office looking for a john, wasn't funny at the time, looking back is different. They were probably more perturbed than I was.
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Focus! Focus! they scream at the projectionist.. or use flash..
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.." - John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
are those all slab boxes fulla slabs I see there?..
So what's your address and when is no one home..
I'd show you guys a picture of my place but I don't want to be responsible for the hospital bills of anyone who looks at it, faints, and smacks their head on something as they collapse..
needless to say, if you saw it, the words "no woman lives there" might spring to mind..
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on.. I don't do these things to other people.. I require the same of them.." - John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
heheh some of these are funny till I looked at mine ...
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Unfortunately, I don't have a proper desk to proudly show off... No fancy 3-22" monitor setups here. But if anyone cares, this is my workstation in my corner of a shared bedroom that I use quite frequently. I cleverly disguised it with a very nerd-like Rubik's Cube theme The station can be quickly turned into a postal station (directly behind the desk is a pile of packaging materials), then to a coin station, a computer repair station (the bottom-left corner where that CD sits 9 laptops), and finally, if I'm bored, a puzzle station.
Looking at my desk, you would have never guessed I was a coin collector, eh?
Okay, okay, I'll 'fess up... I'm actually a puzzle freak too. I can solve the Rubik's cube in around 50 seconds (best time around 31 seconds). But that is nothing compared to other people I know of
-Ben
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Sorting through some dark side that I just acquired.
I must speak to the maid about those cobwebs back there....I'm almost certain there is a big nasty spider to go along with them, black and hairy and I'm sure it will be able to jump 3' straight into the air to land directly onto my arm or leg. ~willies~
Lots of nice desk shots. The one thing that comes to mind though is I see very little room on a lot of the desks for a coffee cup or even a whiskey glass.
Great thread, I just cleaned up my office a week or so ago, but it's already piled with crap (I am working on a submission and actually work from here too). I guess it may make an amusing addition to this thread. Will update this post shortly.
Taken a few minutes ago..................................The metal is the "Portsmouth Medal pf Honor"
I witnessed a purse snatcher knock down an elderly lady and take her purse. I chased the burglar down and held her till a police car came by. The city awarded me with the hero medal.
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<< <i>Taken a few minutes ago..................................The metal is the "Portsmouth Medal pf Honor"
I witnessed a purse snatcher knock down an elderly lady and take her purse. I chased the burglar down and held her till a police car came by. The city awarded me with the hero medal.
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<< <i>desk? what desk? you mean the laptop on the coffee table stacked with so much stuff there's no room to set down a drink?..
i used to have a dining table too..
yes, that's all Silver that was literally socked away (see the sock?).. for decades.. tell ya the story some time if anyone cares..
Say, hrlaser.... we need the rest of the silver in the sock story.
I hope it's not a murder mystery. Ouch!!! >>
okay.. i have some time since i'm done writing for the month.. here's the story.. that's not actually my dining table.. ("and that's not my knee! /slap!").. it's in the home of the 85 year old Mom of a High School classmate of mine (we had our fortieth Reunion a couple of months ago.. Class of 1967, Summer'o'Love, baby)..
anyway.. i've know their family since High School.. they are VERY wealthy.. the Dad, who was in his mid 80s, formerly owned a valve company.. retired, made a fortune.. so the family is quite wealthy.. back in 1964 when he learned that Silver was going to vanish from circulating coinage, he socked away a LOT of it.. he bought rolls and rolls of circulated and Uncirculated dimes, quarters, and Halves, (you can see some of the original paper-wrapped rolls on the table).. stuffed them into clean white socks, and put them in a floor safe in their home. all bought at face value at banks.. i'd reckon about $1000.00 face, give or take..
well sadly, he passed away last year after a stroke the year before.. he was a fun guy to be around and chat with.. former WWII AF flying ace.. the Mom, a former nurse, is still quite mobile, drives, owns multiple homes, even bought herself a Chrysler 300 Hemi a year ago (when he was alive, she wated a new car and went to a nearby Chrysler dealer and told the salesman she needed a sedan into which she could get his wheelchair in the trunk.. drove off the lot in a freakin' 300 Hemi.. i had to explain to her what a Hemi was).. "it's really fast" she told me.. heh.. no $#!+..
so when the Daughter, my High School classmate, is down from Oregoon visiting her Mom at the family home (where the Mom lives alone).. the Mom knew i collected coins and knew a thing or two and said "I want to show you what [the late Dad] stashed away.. let me bring it all out and maybe you can tell me what it all is and what it's worth".. she went into their bedroom and got down and opened up the floor safe and brought out two BUCKETS filled to the brim with those white socks, which were filled with roll after endless roll of Silver.. about 90% of it was 1964-D stuff.. about 75% of it in solid bank rolls that he had bought 43 years ago and NEVER opened..
first, i had to explain to them do NOT NOT NOT take this stuff to a bank and cash it in.. it's all Silver and worth MANY times face value which is all a bank will give you (i explained about how 1964 was the last year of circulating Silver).. do NOT NOT dump it into a CoinStar machine.. what we need to do is to get a mountain of plastic coin tubes for the different denominations and break open these paper rolls and see what you have and then tube all of it..
the Mom flipped through the Yellow Pages and found a local hole-in-the-wall coin store which was open that weekend, hopped in her Hemi (sigh).. went and bought a few dozen tubes, and came back.. meanwhile, the Daughter and i were breaking open the rolls and separating the Gem Uncirculated stuff from the circulated stuff.. there were MANY circulated rolls of Franklin Halves which he had apparently either pulled from change or bought at the bank.. a couple dozen rolls each of 1964-D dimes, Quarters and Kennedy Halves.. plus a couple of rolls worth of MorgEns, a smattering of Mercury dimes, and WLHs.. and ONE SLQ.. ONE..
my tongue was hanging out like Homer Simpson facing a platter of pork chops.. i couldn't believe what i was looking at..
spent the better part of an afternoon tubing all of this Silver which then went back into the floor safe.. although to reward me for my time and knowledge, the Mom let me keep those Gem 1964-D Quarters i had separated out as the best that passed in front of me and put into flips (near the bottom of the photograph)..
she also brought out three other tubes.. two were filled solid with 1998 1oz AGEs, and one with 1998 1oz APEs.. apparently the Dad had "invested" in those too.. why in 1998 i had no idea.. but i was sitting there with well over $20,000.00 worth of Gold and Platinum in my hands in three tubes as a thought flashe through my mind "how fast could i dash out of this house, into my car".. but nah, i wouldn't steal from old friends anyway.. but i had never held that much Gold and Platinum in my hands at one time in my life.. when she handed me the roll of 1 oz. APEs and i opened it and my jaw hit the floor she said "What are those? are they Silver DollErs?".. i had to explain to her that they were 1 oz Platinum Eagles worth (at that time) about a thousand bucks each..
there was another HALF-filled tube of 1998 1 oz AGEs.. i asked why half a tube?.. she told me that while the Dad had been in the hospital after his stroke, he had her bring him a roll of AGEs andn was TIPPING THE DOCTORS AND NURSES with them.. oy!..
anyway, except for a couple dozen Gem 1964-D Quarters in flips and one roll of mixed circulated 1964-D Quarters they gave me to keep (i've looked through the tube and i'd say oh.. XF to MS63 probably).. all of that stuff on the table went back into the socks, back into the two buckets, and back into the floor safe.. oh, she let me keep the ONE SLQ that came out of that hoard too.. (it's sitting by itself on a pad of paper on the right.. in that picture.. i took more shots of the table from other angles).. nuthin' special.. it's a 1925 worn down to about AG..
there are still at least a half dozen rools of Halves in their original 1964 paper bank rolls (visible in the picture).. because she didn't buy enough plastic tubes and i have told her i'd like to buy a couple of those still-sealed-taped paper rolls, but since the two women travel between three different homes a lot and the floor safe is a huge pain to get into (tricky combination and you literally have to get down on your stomach to get at it).. that hasn't happened yet.. but will, eventually.. i hope..
so that's the story.. i only wish that was my hoard.. unfortunately, it's not.. but i got a tiny sampling of it to keep for helping them out.. they were quite literally clueless about Silver and what it's all worth.. but i was up front and honest with them and luckily stopped them from doing something monumentally stupid, like turning it all in at a bank..
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
I figured it was probably because of the following wiring issue...
I just love hoard stories.
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<< <i>desk? what desk? you mean the laptop on the coffee table stacked with so much stuff there's no room to set down a drink?..
i used to have a dining table too..
yes, that's all Silver that was literally socked away (see the sock?).. for decades.. tell ya the story some time if anyone cares..
Say, hrlaser.... we need the rest of the silver in the sock story.
I hope it's not a murder mystery. Ouch!!! >>
okay.. i have some time since i'm done writing for the month.. here's the story.. that's not actually my dining table.. ("and that's not my knee! /slap!").. it's in the home of the 85 year old Mom of a High School classmate of mine (we had our fortieth Reunion a couple of months ago.. Class of 1967, Summer'o'Love, baby)..
anyway.. i've know their family since High School.. they are VERY wealthy.. the Dad, who was in his mid 80s, formerly owned a valve company.. retired, made a fortune.. so the family is quite wealthy.. back in 1964 when he learned that Silver was going to vanish from circulating coinage, he socked away a LOT of it.. he bought rolls and rolls of circulated and Uncirculated dimes, quarters, and Halves, (you can see some of the original paper-wrapped rolls on the table).. stuffed them into clean white socks, and put them in a floor safe in their home. all bought at face value at banks.. i'd reckon about $1000.00 face, give or take..
well sadly, he passed away last year after a stroke the year before.. he was a fun guy to be around and chat with.. former WWII AF flying ace.. the Mom, a former nurse, is still quite mobile, drives, owns multiple homes, even bought herself a Chrysler 300 Hemi a year ago (when he was alive, she wated a new car and went to a nearby Chrysler dealer and told the salesman she needed a sedan into which she could get his wheelchair in the trunk.. drove off the lot in a freakin' 300 Hemi.. i had to explain to her what a Hemi was).. "it's really fast" she told me.. heh.. no $#!+..
so when the Daughter, my High School classmate, is down from Oregoon visiting her Mom at the family home (where the Mom lives alone).. the Mom knew i collected coins and knew a thing or two and said "I want to show you what [the late Dad] stashed away.. let me bring it all out and maybe you can tell me what it all is and what it's worth".. she went into their bedroom and got down and opened up the floor safe and brought out two BUCKETS filled to the brim with those white socks, which were filled with roll after endless roll of Silver.. about 90% of it was 1964-D stuff.. about 75% of it in solid bank rolls that he had bought 43 years ago and NEVER opened..
first, i had to explain to them do NOT NOT NOT take this stuff to a bank and cash it in.. it's all Silver and worth MANY times face value which is all a bank will give you (i explained about how 1964 was the last year of circulating Silver).. do NOT NOT dump it into a CoinStar machine.. what we need to do is to get a mountain of plastic coin tubes for the different denominations and break open these paper rolls and see what you have and then tube all of it..
the Mom flipped through the Yellow Pages and found a local hole-in-the-wall coin store which was open that weekend, hopped in her Hemi (sigh).. went and bought a few dozen tubes, and came back.. meanwhile, the Daughter and i were breaking open the rolls and separating the Gem Uncirculated stuff from the circulated stuff.. there were MANY circulated rolls of Franklin Halves which he had apparently either pulled from change or bought at the bank.. a couple dozen rolls each of 1964-D dimes, Quarters and Kennedy Halves.. plus a couple of rolls worth of MorgEns, a smattering of Mercury dimes, and WLHs.. and ONE SLQ.. ONE..
my tongue was hanging out like Homer Simpson facing a platter of pork chops.. i couldn't believe what i was looking at..
spent the better part of an afternoon tubing all of this Silver which then went back into the floor safe.. although to reward me for my time and knowledge, the Mom let me keep those Gem 1964-D Quarters i had separated out as the best that passed in front of me and put into flips (near the bottom of the photograph)..
she also brought out three other tubes.. two were filled solid with 1998 1oz AGEs, and one with 1998 1oz APEs.. apparently the Dad had "invested" in those too.. why in 1998 i had no idea.. but i was sitting there with well over $20,000.00 worth of Gold and Platinum in my hands in three tubes as a thought flashe through my mind "how fast could i dash out of this house, into my car".. but nah, i wouldn't steal from old friends anyway.. but i had never held that much Gold and Platinum in my hands at one time in my life.. when she handed me the roll of 1 oz. APEs and i opened it and my jaw hit the floor she said "What are those? are they Silver DollErs?".. i had to explain to her that they were 1 oz Platinum Eagles worth (at that time) about a thousand bucks each..
there was another HALF-filled tube of 1998 1 oz AGEs.. i asked why half a tube?.. she told me that while the Dad had been in the hospital after his stroke, he had her bring him a roll of AGEs andn was TIPPING THE DOCTORS AND NURSES with them.. oy!..
anyway, except for a couple dozen Gem 1964-D Quarters in flips and one roll of mixed circulated 1964-D Quarters they gave me to keep (i've looked through the tube and i'd say oh.. XF to MS63 probably).. all of that stuff on the table went back into the socks, back into the two buckets, and back into the floor safe.. oh, she let me keep the ONE SLQ that came out of that hoard too.. (it's sitting by itself on a pad of paper on the right.. in that picture.. i took more shots of the table from other angles).. nuthin' special.. it's a 1925 worn down to about AG..
there are still at least a half dozen rools of Halves in their original 1964 paper bank rolls (visible in the picture).. because she didn't buy enough plastic tubes and i have told her i'd like to buy a couple of those still-sealed-taped paper rolls, but since the two women travel between three different homes a lot and the floor safe is a huge pain to get into (tricky combination and you literally have to get down on your stomach to get at it).. that hasn't happened yet.. but will, eventually.. i hope..
so that's the story.. i only wish that was my hoard.. unfortunately, it's not.. but i got a tiny sampling of it to keep for helping them out.. they were quite literally clueless about Silver and what it's all worth.. but i was up front and honest with them and luckily stopped them from doing something monumentally stupid, like turning it all in at a bank.. >>
Holy crap, that's quite a story!
Glad to know that I am not the only one that keeps odd food around on my desk. I have one right had drawer that is filled with just sugar - bubblegum, candy, cookies, etc.
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The desk looks bad now, but it was much worse before I had to move things to a second desk. Notice all the Auction catalogues on the fireplace, you may not see it, but I'm displaying currency inside the fireplace.
The large clamp on magnifier is for getting a close look at the coins/currency on my monitor when visiting web sites.
Recent purchase. Set up a desk in the Guest Rm. Two monitors and two cyclops for when I can get help.
The suitcase is full of Whitmans. Various denominations in the buckets.
The desk in the closet is the funniest thing. Hope you have a skylight in there. Actually, I owned a business once that was short on space. I took out the toilet/sink in a very small second bathroom, put in two file cabinets and a counter on top of them for a desk. Sometimes a customer that wandered around ended up going into my office looking for a john, wasn't funny at the time, looking back is different. They were probably more perturbed than I was.
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Hoard the keys.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
<< <i>Does anyone else care to share what their workspace looks like? >>
Wish I could but that's classified
Ryan
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Focus! Focus! they scream at the projectionist.. or use flash..
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
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MPL's - Lincolns of Color
Central Valley Roosevelts
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Well considering some of the pictures, I apologise. Some of you don't have to worry about that question.
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
- Bob -
MPL's - Lincolns of Color
Central Valley Roosevelts
December 4th, 2008
The name is LEE!
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are those all slab boxes fulla slabs I see there?..
So what's your address and when is no one home..
I'd show you guys a picture of my place but I don't want to be responsible for the hospital bills of anyone who looks at it, faints, and smacks their head on something as they collapse..
needless to say, if you saw it, the words "no woman lives there" might spring to mind..
- John Wayne, "The Shootist" (1976.. his final film)..
This is my:
Auto Repair Office
Auto Repair Laundy Operations Center
Car Sales Office
Coin Collections Operation Center
Coin Sales Operations Center
Ebay Operations etc
Accounts Payable/Receivables Collections Area
The desk is there just look around
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Lee,
How many Brown IKE's are you collecting there?
DDO hunting are we?
Gardnerville, NV
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1. During a project several months ago. The "desk" is pretty much two tables in an L shaped configuration.
2. Working on a 2x2 album on a small table at the other side of the room.
3. After adding some new purchases to an album (yesterday).
4. The desk where I use the computer (where I'm at right now). More of a typical desk, where there is no room to work on coins.
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
Looking at my desk, you would have never guessed I was a coin collector, eh?
Okay, okay, I'll 'fess up... I'm actually a puzzle freak too.
-Ben
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Kewpie Doll award-10/29/2007
Successful BST transactions with Coinboy and Wondercoin.
Sorting through some dark side that I just acquired.
I must speak to the maid about those cobwebs back there....I'm almost certain there is a big nasty spider to go along with them, black and hairy and I'm sure it will be able to jump 3' straight into the air to land directly onto my arm or leg. ~willies~
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
I witnessed a purse snatcher knock down an elderly lady and take her purse. I chased the burglar down and held her till a police car came by. The city awarded me with the hero medal.
Herb
<< <i>Taken a few minutes ago..................................The metal is the "Portsmouth Medal pf Honor"
I witnessed a purse snatcher knock down an elderly lady and take her purse. I chased the burglar down and held her till a police car came by. The city awarded me with the hero medal.
Herb >>
Very cool!
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
Its making it hard to get to my coffee cup on the right side behind it.
You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.