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14 kennedy halfs for a pack of smokes?

chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭
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my son works at the corner store,calls me and says to come down NOW.he hands me 14 litely circulated 1964 kennedy halfs....a man used them to buy a pack of smokes

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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nine dollars per cigarette. Hope they're good!

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  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    desperate times call for desperate measures, i suppose.

  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Back in the mid-70's I worked in a convenience store where I lived. Every so often an old guy would come in and buy cigars with silver dollars (Morgan/Peace). I of course bought every one out of the register. A while later I knew I would be leaving the job, so the next time the old guy came in I asked if he would be willing to sell me his remaining silver dollars and I would pay a lot more than face value. He refused!

    Later I found out why. He was retired, and his wife worked as a real estate agent. She forbid him to smoke cigars so she made sure he never had any cash, therefore he could never buy any to smoke while she was at work. He preferred raiding his own silver dollar stash to buy cigars with rather than having to worry about hiding "regular" money. She never suspected he would be using his silver dollars. I think I ended up with about 40 or 50, sold them when I started college.

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  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    wow! Nice score
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  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    This gives a whole new meaning to hot coins.image
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm taking up smoking people on cigarette sales.
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  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm going back to where I started my working life...in the liquor store and stack 'em.

    I'm tired of working for fiat.

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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Addictions can cause a lot of problems, esp financially, it would appear.
    Kind of makes me think twice about how "smart" some of the smokers are(n't).....

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder if this guy even knew these coins were worth more than face value.

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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,082 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I wonder if this guy even knew these coins were worth more than face value. >>



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  • cone10cone10 Posts: 1,021
    That's how much a pack of cigs will cost you when the SHTFimage
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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    A pack of cigs is $7? Wow, just wow.image
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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>A pack of cigs is $7? Wow, just wow.image >>



    $14 in New York last time I was up there in January (just saw the price, ex puffer here).
  • fiveNdimefiveNdime Posts: 1,088 ✭✭


    << <i>I'm going back to where I started my working life...in the liquor store and stack 'em. >>


    same way my dad got his 09S VDB in the 50's, a customer was desperate for a nicotine fix.
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  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭
    My wife used to work at a bank. I had her tell all the tellers on what to be on the lookout for. I was buying the stuff for face value and giving the tellers a little kick back.
    Best one was an old lady deposited 40 $2 bills, all very nice and crisp, that had consecutive serial numbers.
    I sold them on ebay for $440!!! No, that's not a typo...$440. I was lmao all the way to the bank on that one...literally!
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sure is amazing what comes over the counter sometimes.... Cigarettes are $9.50/pack here in mid-NYS. One would think that when people get that desperate they would quit. I know my Mother quit when cigarettes went up to $1.00/pack. She said "That is ridiculous." and never smoked again. Cheers, RickO
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, $9.95 a ciggerette, now that is addiction.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    for that price its time to quit. it is a very hard addiction i agree. what a hight price again image
  • ERRORBOYERRORBOY Posts: 66
    wow this is why i need to get a job.
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