Interesting story

jessewvu

I am renting my house and getting the carpets cleaned. One thing lead to another during the estimate conversation and the carpet cleaner guy brought a coin album he found in a storage locker he bought over to my house. The first few pages were cleaned coins and ratty Morgan's but most of the coins were ancient coins. I looked a few up (album came with typewritten notes) and they were like $1,000-$8,000 coins. I only looked at a few in the album, and in no particular order.



I suggested he get them looked at and possibly graded...



It's weird how these things play out sometimes.

291fifth

I suspect that the ancients are fakes. Many companies used to use ancient coin casts as sales promotion items in the days before the Hobby Protection Law went into effect. I just saw a large group of such items as a lot offered in a stamp auction (no one thought they were real).

jessewvu

Really! I was wondering about that myself. I said I couldn't begin to authenticate them and had no idea of their value. It was an interesting lot.



I could try to get some pictures to post here if anyone would be able to tell... I have to meet him again to pay him

Meltdown

I'd like to see some photos.

grip

Did he pull up in a chariot?

LanceNewmanOCC

Originally posted by: Meltdown

I'd like to see some photos.

+1

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TopographicOceans

I always make it a point to remove any traces of coin collecting in my house when workers come in.

There was an article "Confessions of a Burglar" where he said "I've been in your house a few months before. Maybe as a delivery person or worker, but I've seen what you have."

jessewvu

The house was empty except for some antique furniture we were trying to sell. He just happened to have an antique furniture store and was asking how much we wanted for an cabinet. We got to talking and he mentioned he buys storage sheds and whatnot. He then went into details about coins and said he found a shed with $200,000 worth of coins in it, the ones he brought were from that shed. I will say that if the collection was worth that much, it was terrible to see it in an old 3 ring binder with those plastic 2x2 insert sheets.



He packed up the coins before i could get a picture. It looked like the ancient coins all had the same kind of patina on them, a little toning; very light blues and greens in the fields. There were a few that looked dug/corroded and they had a similar patina on them. Everything was in old 2x2 holders, very very think plastic on them. The Morgan dollars looked like PVC had got them really good.

lordmarcovan

Could have been a legitimately old school collection. Could be some or all of the ancients were fakes. Who knows.



But it is, like you say, an interesting story.

ricko

Yep...interesting story...those storage lockers produce some good material from time to time.

Have been to a couple of locker auctions... did not buy anything.... seemed obvious to me that

there was nothing but junk in them.... Cheers, RickO

asheland

Originally posted by: grip
Did he pull up in a chariot?

asheland

Originally posted by: TopographicOceans
I always make it a point to remove any traces of coin collecting in my house when workers come in.

There was an article "Confessions of a Burglar" where he said "I've been in your house a few months before. Maybe as a delivery person or worker, but I've seen what you have."

Very good point!