I can hardley contain myself!

Ajjohnson77

I have a close friend who I used to fork for doing general construction. He' is a close friend of my whole family as a matter of fact. Well around 2006 he brought in a few coins that , if I recall are real nice, but I recall I seeing at least rare date CC Morgan dollar, some nice Walkers, and some liberty nickels. Well I just remembered this and I gave him a call He'll be here in an hour or so.

I will keep you posted. This guy is kind of a grump, so I bet he will hold on to them. We will see.

AUandAG

My grandfather built an addition on our home with a crosscut hand saw, a ball peen hammer and
a tape measure....turned out great.
A fork???
Now that's a real challenge.

bob

Timbuk3

I'm waiting ???

GrumpyEd

I have nothing against grumps.

Welcome aboard Grumpy

Type2

I'm going to bed now I can't wait any more.

Ajjohnson77

Sorry for the wait. I was impressed but not blown away. He had a 1891 S silver dollar in AU condition and an 1891 CC silver dollar in AU/BU slider condition. Probably worth a couple hundred buck with the other common stuff In the box.

Most importantly she he had series 1935 Silver certificate with writing on the reverse thata said. "To Martha, June 6, 1943" It also mentioned a Japanese ship ".........Maru" that was apparently sunk by an American ship that day. It was signed by Mac or Moe, I could not read it. The certificate was in very poor condition.

I now suspect this "Mac" or "Moe" was on board one of the Navy ships who sunk a Japanese ship on that day. I bet he took that note out and memorialized it to his wife or daughter, mother, or whoever. I bet that the 1891 Silver dollars had some signifigance. Probably a date of birth of someone in that family.

He also had a 1883 "no cents" nickel in BU condition. Not sure what significance it may have had.

My intentions before discovering this information was to buy it all up because there were some nice coins there. I told my friend what a good numismatist should always tell....do not clean these coins no matter how dirty or colorful they become. Keep them away from kids and save them for the next generation.

Neat stuff to say the least. I love this hobby, the history baffles me. I hope he takes my advice and keeps it untouched and gives them to his kids.


PS there was a business card in the box of coins that was from one of these traveling buyers of gold and silver. He told me they offered him $50 for the lot. There was more than that in the silver content in that box alone. Those crooks! Good thing he kept them and came to me. Just wanted to tell this story.

ricko

Did you make an offer on the lot?? If he had one offer, he must have contemplated selling them....Cheers, RickO

Eagleguy

Not sunk on June 6 1943, but an interesting piece of history nonetheless MV Tatsuta Maru. I wonder if "Mac" was stationed on the sub?

Always fun to look through a bunch of old coins.

JH