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Why coin dealers cry.....

CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
From the dealer-to-dealer network:

"Went to appraise what is left of a 50 year collection. The old fellow was
confused and had been taking his collection apart, keeping the holders, and
throwing the coins in the garbage. She doesn't know how much he had already
thrown away, but found his complete set of Indian cents empty. That was his
pride and joy. All of his paper money is gone. A good portion of a Morgan set
is gone. A Walker set is gone. What she dug out of the garbage that day was a
set of silver eagles from 1986-2010, half a dozen proof eagles, a couple
dozen Morgans, and some gorgeous full step early Jeffs. That disease is just
messed up."
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Truly a sad story!

    I feel bad for the person.
    Pat Vetter,Mercury Dime registry set,1938 Proof set registry,Pat & BJ Coins:724-325-7211


  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very sad.

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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Truly unfortunate but if he enjoyed the collection for half a century, what the hell. image
  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
    Very sad.



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  • Bankerbob56Bankerbob56 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>Truly unfortunate but if he enjoyed the collection for half a century, what the hell. image >>



    Some silver lining is better than none.

    Sad story, the decay of the brain as you get older is frightening to think about. I'll take death at 75, please. >>



    Let's see how you feel once you approach your 74.5 year birthday!

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    What we've got here is failure to communicate.....

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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
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  • MilkmanDanMilkmanDan Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh man.... image
  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tomorrow's another day...
  • WhiteTornadoWhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
    Wow image
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very sad !!! image
    Timbuk3
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,070 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the ultimate pits image
  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,422 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's terrible. Imagine the stuff that goes on that we never hear about.
    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had not heard that one before. Feel mostly bad for him as I am sure there was years of work in all of that.
    MLAeBayNumismatics: "The greatest hobby in the world!"
  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

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    << <i>Truly unfortunate but if he enjoyed the collection for half a century, what the hell. image >>



    Some silver lining is better than none.

    Sad story, the decay of the brain as you get older is frightening to think about. I'll take death at 75, please. >>



    Let's see how you feel once you approach your 74.5 year birthday!

    image >>



    that's life in a nutshell right there.
  • AhrensdadAhrensdad Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
    Wow, that is very sad.
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  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Truly unfortunate but if he enjoyed the collection for half a century, what the hell. image >>



    Some silver lining is better than none.

    Sad story, the decay of the brain as you get older is frightening to think about. I'll take death at 75, please. >>

    Too bad as I know many folks older than 75 who are intelligent and remain capable people.
    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,703 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    Some silver lining is better than none.

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    Even trash can have a silver lining.


    This just serves to highlight the fact that nothing lasts forever. Coins suffer
    attrition and even our minds can go before our bodies. It's a complicated world
    and the only thing that lasts are pyramids.
    Tempus fugit.
  • luckybucksluckybucks Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭
    Oh man, that is horrible !!!!

    Very tough disease. My dad had it in the last six months of his life.

    Someone digging in the landfill 100 years from now will be very happy.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,703 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a sadder story to tell. Some of my friends would never buy a lottery
    ticket but often check the "used" tickets they find. It's not unusual to find
    winning tickets among them. My theory is some people were born without a
    mind and this is one of the reasons lottery sales are so good. I've never heard
    of a major score until early last year one friend found lottery tickets falling out
    of a bag with an empty six pack. A couple of the tickets were $500 winners!!!
    Apparently somebody spent all his money for a chance to make money and con-
    solation in the event he lost. He got the consolation as evidenced by the dead
    soldiers but missed the fact he won.

    Odds are good he needed the money.

    The world's a sad place once you weaken.
    Tempus fugit.
  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭
    I think the dealer was crying for the wrong reason.
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
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  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tragic in many ways....so sad. image

    Dave
    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
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    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,850 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sad, but interesting that he was keeping the holders...... Perhaps that's what he was actually collecting on a subconscious level.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I remember when I was about 12 one of my buddies' grandmother came to stay with them with what I now know was advanced Alzheimers. His was the house we hung around at, so after school we would go straight to his house. As we came in the door, his Mom would very formally introduce her Mother to her son. Every day. Eventually the grandmother went away to a nursing home. I was too young at the time to appreciate what my friend's Mom was going through, but I have seen it too many times since.
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does this old, confused collector still drive?
  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,948 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My favorite uncle who was responsible for introducing me to this hobby was taken by Alzheimer's. Terrible disease.

    RIP Mom- 1932-2012
  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Truly unfortunate but if he enjoyed the collection for half a century, what the hell. image >>



    Some silver lining is better than none.

    Sad story, the decay of the brain as you get older is frightening to think about. I'll take death at 75, please. >>



    Let's see how you feel once you approach your 74.5 year birthday!

    image >>



    My thoughts exactly.
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,046 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I think the dealer was crying for the wrong reason. >>



    Doubtful


    I've seen it personally myself. She was often unable to finish a sentence without forgetting the end.

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  • vplite99vplite99 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Truly unfortunate but if he enjoyed the collection for half a century, what the hell. image >>



    Some silver lining is better than none.

    Sad story, the decay of the brain as you get older is frightening to think about. I'll take death at 75, please. >>

    Too bad as I know many folks older than 75 who are intelligent and remain capable people. >>



    Hey, I resemble that remark.
    Vplite99
  • ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's awful
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    My close friend is in his late 70's. He and his son restored a WWII airplane over the last decade. 2 years ago they were invited to fly it to Texas to participate in a classic airshow. The son had his pilots license held up for medical reasons, the old man had no problem and flew the son and plane safely to Texas and back.

    A bit too early to hang things up at 75!
  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    74 is the record in my family...at 45 I was the oldest living male in my family.

    My father-in-law bought a new car at the age of 87...he's the optimist in the family.
    ANA-LM, NBS, EAC
  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> Why coin dealers cry..... >>


    It makes family and friends cry too. So sad.

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have lots of reasons to cry.
    Was an emotional wreck at a recent grand opening of a local WalMart store. image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very sad.... sad when it afflicts older people, disastrous when it hits earlier.... I have a close friend whose wife was just diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers...really sad. Cheers, RickO
  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Where is this at? Time to pull out the detector and find that landfill!
  • mustangmanbobmustangmanbob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My dad lost it shortly before he passed. He had been in the US Army and captured in Northern Italy.

    For a period of time, he was transported back in time, and trapped in a POW camp in Yugoslavia. The memories of the experience overloaded his mind and put it all into the present. The guards were upset about something, and they executed the man next to him, and splattered him all over my dad. My dad was only 19 at the time. He was frantic that my brother and I had somehow been captured also and were in the same camp. The camp had been a stable area for the Germans, and the POW's were stored in the stalls. In the hospital bed, he would be writhing in pain from the fleas and bedbugs that were in the straw.

    We found that just rubbing a basic cream on him caused his mind to believe the fleas were not biting him anymore.

    Thankfully, that passed, and the last 3 days of his life, he was on a cruise ship.

  • TomthecoinguyTomthecoinguy Posts: 849 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My dad lost it shortly before he passed. He had been in the US Army and captured in Northern Italy.

    For a period of time, he was transported back in time, and trapped in a POW camp in Yugoslavia. The memories of the experience overloaded his mind and put it all into the present. The guards were upset about something, and they executed the man next to him, and splattered him all over my dad. My dad was only 19 at the time. He was frantic that my brother and I had somehow been captured also and were in the same camp. The camp had been a stable area for the Germans, and the POW's were stored in the stalls. In the hospital bed, he would be writhing in pain from the fleas and bedbugs that were in the straw.

    We found that just rubbing a basic cream on him caused his mind to believe the fleas were not biting him anymore.

    Thankfully, that passed, and the last 3 days of his life, he was on a cruise ship. >>



    If my mind goes, I hope I spend my last three days a big coin show. I also hope I score some really nice coins that I could not afford in real life.
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not good. I have a friend that was talking to his dad on the phone and pulled up to his dad's house and his dad said to him some one just pulled up in my driveway and he told his dad to go see who it was as he was on the phone. So his dad walked out the door and asked him who are you and he told him i'm your soon he said no your not my son is on the phone he hung up the phone and satrted talking to him and his dad just started talking and forgot all about it like nothing happen. That is just crazy like that movie 51st dates or Ground hog day I guess. image


    Hoard the keys.
  • TookybanditTookybandit Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭✭
    What a gut wrenching story! image

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