Share a happy or joyful coin story?
Aspie_Rocco
Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭✭✭
I really could use some happy thoughts today, does anyone have a happy, positive, humorous, exciting, or anecdotal coin story to share?
2
Comments
When I was a kid, my uncle gave me a 2002 silver eagle. To me, that meant I had just been given treasure like pirates had, and boy did I love pirates! I convinced my mother to buy me a little $6 treasure chest from Michael's to hide my coin in with a mixture of plastic gems and my copy of Pokemon Yellow (All very clearly treasure). I loved that feeling of having something valuable as a kid. When my little brother found it, I hid it so he wouldn't try to take it. Well, a few months ago my now coin collecting little brother received that same silver eagle for his birthday!
Although I have told the story before.... Years ago, I purchased a 1909D $5 gold Indian... my favorite among many gold coins. I relocated from the West coast to the East coast....I could not find my favorite coin....Eight years later, when checking a box of ammunition for some scarce ammo... Voila'...There it was... How it got there, I have no idea... but I did my happy dance for about ten minutes. Now it is safely within my reach (when at home)...Cheers, RickO
Minutes before reading your post, I got off the phone with my mother. She is 78, in very good health, and we speak and text often. She lives in Massachusetts and I am in Texas.
She doesn't collect coins, but I share with her some of my anecdotes, and send her links pertaining to coins that combine our shared love of history.
The Lowell quarters are being released this year. I was born in Lowell. My mother and I had a nice conversation this morning about the history of the Lowell Mills. She knows that I am not in a position to spend much right now on my collection, and she let me know that my Christmas present from her this year will be the Lowell 5 oz ATB puck. She is a great Mom.
Hope you get to feeling better @Aspie_Rocco
Grandmother had a collection of only one coin, it was a circulated half dime. Recall her bringing it out 3 or 4 times and explaining that it was a half dime and not a nickel. We were confused and amazed by that. Hell, I am still sort of confused.
We get jaded with all the high grade classic coins as we trip over ourselves trying to upgrade or get a sticker attached and sometimes forget the magic of these historic little gems.
Show a civil war era coin to a non collector and you may create a new collector. Give him the coin, and he will be a new collector.
When I was a child on the farm, I built a metal detector with a plant pot, some copper wire and a broom handle using plans in a 1950's era "Popular Mechanics" magazine.
My Uncle kept telling me where to detect in the gravel driveway. After what seemed like hours I told him there was nothing there.
He walked over and brushed the gravel away with his boot and there was a 1923 Peace Dollar. I was embarrassed, he had a laugh and I still have that dollar some 4 or 5 decades later.
Roccon @Aspie_Rocco , You make my day every time that you post, things will brighten up shortly.
Boston
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb, Ricko
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Any time I get a new coin for my set it's a happy story to me!
My YouTube Channel
What's bothering you?
Collector, occasional seller
one uncle gave me a 1893 columbion expo. half when I was a kid. that was my first commem. that I got and still have it today, thank uncle nick
Fairly recently we discovered a sizable number of silver coins that my dad (years ago) had selected and pulled from 5 bags of silver that he bought in the 80s. I was able to sort through over 500 Walking Liberties, and filled 55 of 65 slots in a new Dansco album. Handling all those Walking Liberties was exuberating. I probably will never come upon an opportunity like that again.
My strategy is about collecting what I intend to keep, not investing in what I plan to sell.
I traded a coin for some kick-ass artwork!!! Wooo-hooo!
And now for the humorous:
The first entry in my Baby Book:
" We brought ***** home from the hospital today and he wouldn't stop crying. Gave him some paregoric."
WTF MOM???
I once bought a jon boat. Guy said it leaks.... okay but figured it could be fixed.
Take it out into the river and the entire transom is seeping... I mean really leaking!
I have to pull the plug and speed up to drain the boat to keep from sinking.
Paid $800 for it, the motor, an the trailer. Long story short, lost $500 real quick on the resale and repairs.
I see the guy, and my wife is with me. I said the boat nearly sunk... and with a booming voice to match his big personality... "I told you the boat had a hole in it!"
Over the next twenty years of marriage, every time I screw something up Ms Captain Obvious lets me know about it.... "I told you the boat had a hole in it"
Even a friend has adopted the line and hits me with it often.
Finally got some revenge. The friend does work for a developer.
I had asked him months ago... "do you think he's got THAT much money? Flying you around in jet planes, designing multiple houses, weekends in NYC 20K a night? Letting you borrow the plane for family emergency?"
The real jet setting high life.
So the developer gets hit with an indictment by the feds for a tax scheme totaling a billion dollars. Saw the news, and the friend texted me asking what I thought...
"I TOLD YOU THE BOAT HAD A HOLE IN IT" hahaha
Not really that funny considering the circumstances but fitting nonetheless.
BST: KindaNewish (3/21/21), WQuarterFreddie (3/30/21), Meltdown (4/6/21), DBSTrader2 (5/5/21) AKA- unclemonkey on Blow Out
I was pretty new into collecting and fascinated with world coins. I'd come back from a high school trip to Europe where our group had visited several countries and I'd come back with a pocket full of change from all over. (We could exchange the paper notes back into dollars, but not the coins.)
So I began collecting world coins from a couple of local coin shops. Basically I bought anything cheap, mostly raw and from the 10 & 15 for $1 bins.
One day I splurged and bought a box of world mint sets... $4 each! Probably 10-12 in the box. That was huge money for me, almost $50 total!
I had a Krause catalog at home so I looked up each one carefully...
Imagine my surprise when I found out I'd bought a 1969 Japanese mint set that booked for $650.00!!!
That silly thing in the little plastic folder was a low issue and crazy big money to a student like me!!!
I ended up selling it to a mail order dealer who advertised in Coin World for $450 and was happy to get it!
That was about 30 years ago and I've been hooked on coins ever since.