Is Anyone Here Going To Be Buried With Any Coin/Coins?

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BLUEJAYWAY
BLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Not buried in coins like financially. But when you pass away. If so, and cremation is the process you choose, remember not to use any copper coinage as they are illegal to melt.😆

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  • alaura22
    alaura22 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I am not going to be buried so not a problem :o

    Mike
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  • Creg
    Creg Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Copper cents over my eyes to pay Charon, of course.

  • Steven59
    Steven59 Posts: 11,230 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nope! Gonna "cash in" before I "cash out" B)

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • oreville
    oreville Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I would like to be buried with a couple of my gals,, pretty circulated walkers. I even told my wife that.

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  • skier07
    skier07 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I might be buried with many of a coin figuratively, but they’re not going to the grave with me.

  • lilolme
    lilolme Posts: 2,993 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Reminds me of A7X and buried alive.

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  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I wouldn’t like that. The living should enjoy them.

    One of the more famous burials is one of the Springfield, Massachusetts baseball medals. It is said that one of the team members was buried with his piece.

    Here's mine.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Creg said:
    Copper cents over my eyes to pay Charon, of course.

    That reminds me of the scene from the Disney cartoon version of “A Christmas Carol” where Scrooge grabs the coins off of Marley’s eyes before they bury him. Oddly enough this is set in London, but the coins look like U.S. Liberty Seated half dollars.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • logger7
    logger7 Posts: 9,858 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It is a macabre spectacle worthy of Edgar Allan Poe to be be buried with one's possessions. If I died suddenly I doubt my stuff would be sold anywhere near real market. In consideration of ultimate accountability to the Creator and a final judgment, I'd want to have assets essentially liquidated and funds put into worthy causes and humanitarian relief.

  • sellitstore
    sellitstore Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BillJones said:

    @Creg said:
    Copper cents over my eyes to pay Charon, of course.

    That reminds me of the scene from the Disney cartoon version of “A Christmas Carol” where Scrooge grabs the coins off of Marley’s eyes before they bury him. Oddly enough this is set in London, but the coins look like U.S. Liberty Seated half dollars.

    The Seated Liberty design was modelled after Britannia, wasn't it? And Britannia comes from Roman coins.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I often work in mines......................so it is possible

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  • seatedlib3991
    seatedlib3991 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    All my slabbed and valuable coins are pre sorted and pre planned for sale thru Great Collections in the years after my death. My wife says she is going to make prize bundles out of all my things like Wheat cents, Gorbrecht journals, coin folders etc. and hold a bingo game. James

  • Mr_Spud
    Mr_Spud Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Just imagine the toning that might occur

    Mr_Spud

  • Old_Collector
    Old_Collector Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    You could be a real boon to metal detector sales! ;)

  • Pnies20
    Pnies20 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I’m going to melt them all.

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  • Namvet69
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  • Harlequin
    Harlequin Posts: 232 ✭✭✭
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    @alaura22 said:
    I am not going to be buried so not a problem :o

    Same here ........ unless I wanted to smelter a few on the way out o:)

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  • krueger
    krueger Posts: 946 ✭✭✭✭
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    Anything in the Raw trying to sell on the bourse floor. I ve been shunned ,dismissed and they didn't even look at them. For all they knew I might have had rare circ Morgan's in my box.
    No problem selling if slabbed.

  • KAJ1
    KAJ1 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭
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    I was thinking just this. Leaning towards, I should reap the reward, or failure, of my collection.

  • Overdate
    Overdate Posts: 7,318 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm going to leave my collection where I can find it next time around.

    I believe in reincoination. :*

  • GuzziSport
    GuzziSport Posts: 604 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ambro51 said:
    My Dad always Always had a 2$ bill in his wallet. He said a man was Never broke if he had a 2$ bill. When he passed in 2006 I tucked a 2$ bill in his shirt pocket at the funeral.

    I love that, kudos. I lost my wife last year, she loved ladybugs, so I put a ladybug locket in her hands.

    As to the OP’s question, I would not “take along with me” anything of numismatic significance, I’m merely a temporary steward of my coins, not their permanent owner. Let future collectors do the same for the generations who follow. That’s my take.

    Other passions include golf, Moto Guzzi motorcycles, and Euro motorcycles in general.
    Chris

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BillJones said:
    I wouldn’t like that. The living should enjoy them.

    One of the more famous burials is one of the Springfield, Massachusetts baseball medals. It is said that one of the team members was buried with his piece.

    Here's mine.

    Good point on leaving it for future generations.

    In the baseball player situation, this probably wasn't considered a collectible at the time of burial, so that may have factored int the decision.

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  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Who knows who's buried these days with what. People get buried with God knows what, fwiw

  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Years ago some grave robbers dug up the casket of Mike Todd, who was Elizabeth Taylor’s husband in the late 50s. It was rumored that he was buried with a valuable ring.m

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • LukeMarshall
    LukeMarshall Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I am currently buried in many coins unfortunately.

    Buy what you like they said…

    It's all about what the people want...

  • WildWestHalfDollars
    WildWestHalfDollars Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No all going to close family and if they are gone (dead before me) then sold at auction and proceeds to my local animal shelter.

    Once I am dead I do not care if my family sells them if they mean nothing to them let them cash out and buy what they like.

    Liberty Seated Half Dollars

  • Swampboy
    Swampboy Posts: 13,257 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 6, 2025 2:32PM
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    ..raises hand..
    I'm buried in a few coins

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  • ambro51
    ambro51 Posts: 14,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It’s too bad it was never a tradition to place a silver dime beside the headstone………

  • HillbillyCollector
    HillbillyCollector Posts: 736 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nah, I know my family too well,……….. if I said I wanted to be buried with coins, they would do a ‘quick and dirty’ valuation on what I own and drop a check into the coffin before the lid closes!😉🤣

  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    For you guys who want to be buried with some of your coins, make sure that you include a magnifier with a built-in light source. It pays to think ahead. ;)

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  • BLUEJAYWAY
    BLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I believe Frank Sinatra was buried with a roll of dimes,pack of smokes, and not sure but also some liquor.

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  • BLUEJAYWAY
    BLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    When I have visited my parents plots I have noticed on some graves cents by the headstones. Also trinkets,toys,empty liquor bottles, etc.

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  • Catbert
    Catbert Posts: 8,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Cremation fire doesn’t mix with metals! :D We’re only temporary caretakers. Our collections get assembled during our lives and then disseminated to others afterward to assemble once again.

    It’s special to me to own an Eliasberg coin with his noteworthy provenance. Nobody will care about a Catbert coin!

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  • Goldbully
    Goldbully Posts: 18,557 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If you don't want to be buried with your rare coins, here is an interesting alternative.
    It's called the money casket.

  • ambro51
    ambro51 Posts: 14,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 6, 2025 5:03PM
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    @BLUEJAYWAY said:
    I believe Frank Sinatra was buried with a roll of dimes,pack of smokes, and not sure but also some liquor.

    Frank wore a Jack Taylor Beverly Hills Suit. These suits are in the 10K range.

  • SIowhand
    SIowhand Posts: 369 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I’m sure coins will be the last thing on my mind when I am dead.

  • Mr_Spud
    Mr_Spud Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Like the ghost of Jacob Marley chained to them in a trunk

    Mr_Spud

  • Cougar1978
    Cougar1978 Posts: 10,067 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 6, 2025 9:34PM
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    No way - by then blown them all out - travel, etc.

    Even the junk stuff.

    Go UH Cougars!

    Investor

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