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A customer just came into my store and bought these with two Whitman Coin folders.
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In the meanwhile, this week 's silver from cash register.
That is sad...
So you buy coins and sell whiskey in the same store?
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
Lol. I collect cash /coins while drinking bourbon all day at work.
Hiring?
Whitman folders make me want to drink.
Ah I see, nice for you. I've heard of people coming in with silver eagles and Morgan dollars to buy booze. I need a we buy gold we sell booze store in the same location. Or at least next door to each other.
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
I was trying to see where you were selling the Whitmans, but now I understand they paid for the booze with the Lincoln sets.
They could have gotten more with their statehood quarter set.
My brother in law worked at a liquor store for over 20 years. He had a tackle box and jars full of old silver coins and wheat cents that had come in over the years. I was always so jealous because he just bought it all from the register at face. It was the coolest collection of stuff. He said it would just slowly come in for a while and then all the sudden someone would bring in a ton of stuff.
One of the tellers in my town worked at a bank for over 40 years and retired around 2010. Her son took pictures of her collection bought from her drawer over the years to ask me what I thought it was worth. It was an impressive collection to say the least. All the other tellers would always sell her the "cool or unusual'' stuff when it came in. She also had some really nice currency as well.
I served Knob Creek at my daughter’s wedding reception this past weekend
These are what Original silver coins should look like in my opinion.
They’re actually more beautiful to me than the market acceptable circ stuff that populates most collections in high demand series we all know and love.
I once purchased an original roll of BU 83P quarters from a liquor store without the thought that they’d be anything, but that was my early collecting series.
Sprinkled them back to the liquor store in short order as need arose, which was fairly quickly.
Probably stolen, sad to say. I'd hate to think that someone with the patience and time to complete a Whitman folder has fallen that far down into the hole.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
The poor person needed a drink.
Gee Whiz.....
Somebody takes the time to take a couple of pictures and post a fun thread and then they're accused of buying stolen goods !
Simmer down. My observation only is that most individuals that desperate for a drink don't usually carry around completed Whitman folders in lieu of currency, but hey, I suppose it could be an avid numismatist who happens to like airplane bottles of booze, lol..
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
I've seen stuff like that before, I just hope they didn't raid someones collection for money.
Buying all low end varieties of the $1 bill.
I must have missed the part that said the customer was desperate for a drink.
Thought # Two: If you had the cajones to steal the coins, why not try to steal the airplane booze bottles too? They are very small and aren't valuable enough for an electronic tag.
Thought # One: No evidence that the folders were completed. 50 ml of Fireball ought to be dirt cheap, Stoly might be a little more. Maybe they had a two-for-one clearance bin. Maybe the customer had a couple of quarters and dimes to add to the deal. It might be a sad story, but life is a little sad.
Perhaps the thing is a little unusual for this website, but I kinda like to see these insights into other peoples' lives.
Weird. Looks just like Marketview Liquor in Rochester.
Yes indeed.........If they came from family and were not stolen, the person's relatives will know soon enough.
Pete
In Delaware they could have bought this.
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I used to get a few wheat cents at my local liquor store but they started rounding down when out of cents.
We will likely never know the backstory of that transaction, however, it is an interesting post... Cheers, RickO
I used to work with guy that worked evenings at a liquor store. He had a guy used to come in and buy with Proof Silver eagles at face value.
I think the worst part of this story is that the person bought fireball.
Scrapple flavored vodka ... That' s new one on me. I had my first taste of scrapple in 20 years at Rehoboth Beach breakfast place last fall, and it was really good too. Too often it has too much corn meal in it.
For those who don't know what we are talking about, Scrapple is a pork based prepared meat that made from all the picky piece parts from the hog. The parts are boiled up in a big iron pot. My father said that pig's liver was the part that made it good. Out in the country when folks held a "hog killin'" in the fall, scrapple was one of the products along with bacon and ham. I was very small child when my father had his last "hog killin'" event.
As for the booze, the "Fireball" stuff is pretty good. It's like the fireball candy I got at the movies when I was kid, only it's liquid and has alcohol in it. It's sort of like a poor man's "Grand Marnier." I learned about "Knob Creek" from the Stone Barrington novels by Stuart Woods. It's very good on the rocks and makes a mean Manhattan.
I wouldn't mess with grading those two dimes with PCGS (too small a value) although the 1941 is pre-WW2 and looks like a polished circulated gem.
I was in the local c-store this morning for donuts, and I noted that the 375 ml Fireball was $6.59 plus sales tax. It could have been 200 ml sized too, it was behind the counter a few feet and hard to see. Whoa that's a lot of money!
My cost for a 375ml Fireball is around $6.50 and is being sold at $8.99.
Anyhow, both folders (90 pennies each) were around 85% completed. The missing coins were replaced with older wheaties.. They are from a regular customer of mine who does his visit every couple day. Oh and the airplane shots are selling for a buck each at my store.
What I was looking at must have been the 200 ml size, the place I was in was not a cheap place for alcohol.
But the place does sell two donuts and medium coffee (both good or better quality) for $2.16 including sales tax, and the A.M. Staff is very friendly.
Fireball makes me shudder at little bit to even think about it.
It is neat to see your little slice of life.
A convenience store clerk told me of the guy who came in late night and bought a pack of cigarettes with six Peace Dollars. That’s when you really need a smoke!
The prices for the wine are low. You must be in a low tax state.
Kind of reminds me of the story of the old man who used his Morgan Dollars he had collected over the years to "head out" on his walks and buy cigars. Supposedly, he did this because his wife would never let him spend any "real" money. Foolish for most, but he did what he had to do to be happy.
Desperate times call for desperate measures!
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"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Will the airplane shots make me fly away?
Pete