Estate Sale
scotty1419
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I've never even found an estate sale close enough to check out, but today I was able to luck into one the next street over!
I mostly went for some military items that the WW2 vet's family had, but happened into a neat older collection that was accumulated.
Can anyone say when a $1 1856 gold piece was around $55 for a F/VF?
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Sweet!
They look like throw-backs from the 1930s. Amazing what remained in circulation back then.
@scotty1419 Ver nice pickups. You are now the custodian.
Awesome finds!
Let's see the WWII stuff! Cant understand when family lets go of personal effects from their own military history.
Drives me nuts
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"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
nice find.
Can anyone say when a $1 1856 gold piece was around $55 for a F/VF?
I would guess when gold was near $400/oz late 1972/early1973 and mid-1999/early 2002
It's very unusual to find anything more than a bunch of average circulated Morgan and Peace dollars these days. Nice find!
Unfortunately nothing big. It was a 2 war family - WW1 navy sailor with lot of photographs and some good letters from when the sailor was torpedoed off the coast of France then went onto a second ship. The son was drafted in 1944 and served in the 87th Infantry Division through the Bulge/Germany. Mostly just smaller insignia, patches, some photos left there. They must have let the uniforms go long ago unfortunately.
I think they were just happy to find someone who was really interested in it.
If you've got some time, the vet did an oral history that's a great listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBBX-FVoDzQ
Thanks! I'd have to imagine it was probably closer to the '72 era then!
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Very nice acquisitions.... I have never found coins at the estate sales around here.... and I always look/ask. Cheers, RickO
I was so busy sorting through 50 years of military paperwork and photos that I didn't even know the coins were there until I ran into half of them in an old coffee can and heard another neighbor in the background offer $12 for about 250 Indian cents - thankfully they declined.