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1890 CC Morgan
SanctionII
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My aunt found this on the street in the 50's. When she died it went to my mother, who gave it to me as an 8 year old YN.
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Great street find and something completely gone in today's world.
Reminds me of my brother finding a 1909-s Lincoln penny at a Toronto Maple Leafs game back in 1965 (I was 6 at the time). He had his eye on this penny being kicked around the floor at Maple Leaf Gardens during the first period intermission. After about 5 'kicks' the penny finally came his way and he then gladly picked it up.
Sadly to this day, he's still looking for the S-VDB on the ground but I keep telling him to forget about it.(LOL).
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...it's hard to believe that a hunk of silver that big and out in the open could be found in the street...but I'm 36 years old so it's hard to believe that a hunk of silver that big could be found in a bank also! Awesome find for your Aunt and Way Cool that it's now yours and you have the coin and the story to show and tell. I could only imagine the look on a FOB foreigner in 1950, finding a piece of money that big and wonderful just lying on a public ground...must of immediately confirmed that's America is indeed the land of opportunity!
...come to think of it, I never have seen very much money on the ground in other countries like here at home
I remember as a kid in the early 60's finding three Franklin half dollars. One on the street, one on a parking lot and one on the floor of a department store. Never found a silver dollar.
I've told this story before but yes, silver dollars were found on the ground back in the day. I remember one snowy New Years, like 1963 or so, when a bunch of us boys went down to the Nugget for early breakfast at about 2 in the morning. This was Carson City. After eating we all decide to just walk down the middle of Carson Street (main drag) as it was perfectly deserted and beautiful as the stars had come out and the snow had stopped and there was a beautiful inch of new snow on the road since the last snow plow. While walking right down the middle we must have picked up more than a dozen silver dollars....Newfound wealth for sure for us kids in '63! They were scattered over a distance of fifty feet or more. It was a scramble to see who could uncover the most....great fun. Kick the snow, find a dollar, kick the snow, kick the snow, find another dollar. How could someone lose silver dollar in the middle of the main drag?
I did not keep any of mine and I'm glad that yours was kept Scanction. So cool and a CC to boot.
bob:)
neat story and a cc too!
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Great coin and history - thank you.
In the 1950's I found a Morgan silver dollar in the grass outside of a church. When I was a morning paperboy I used to save up my tips and once a month or so go to the bank and exchange $5 in change for 5 silver dollars. The tellers were usually very friendly and would go back to the vault and retrieve the silver dollars from cloth bags - I could see into the gigantic vault with huge round doors and bags of dollars stacked in a corner. Once a teller gave me a half roll of Indian Head cents - I was SO thrilled. My grandparents would give me a 1/2 dollar coin on Monday so I could by an ice cream cone for 10¢ each day after school - can still taste those black raspberry treats. Those 50¢ Walkers were BIG money to a little kid.
Nostalgia, nostalgia, if only we knew then what we know now
Great story @SanctionII !
For @Rexford , wondering what is there to disagree about this?
@Zoins Accidental click, whoops.
Gobrecht's Engraved Mature Head Large Cent Model
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I found many a coin in the street as a kid... we walked everywhere in my little village...Cars were for adults and only used for special trips....However, I never found a silver dollar.... lots of cents and other change.. a couple of halves outside one of the many bars (late night drunks dropping loose change)...Would be a real thrill to find big silver like that - even today. Cheers, RickO