Friend of mine just got out of New Orleans just in time
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A dear friend of mine evacuated from the suburbs of New Orleans just in time.
Before the disaster that befell New Orleans, I asked him the all-important question.
"Did he save his 1/2 mint bag of original 1983-P mint state quarters? Indeed, they were saved."
He did tell me that he believes many stamp and coin collections may have been damaged in New Orleans still sitting in flooded homes and banks. I realized that this is crazy talk when so many lives have been lost and/or ruined but even our hobby has suffered as well for possibly decades to come in addition to the tragedy that we are now seeing.
Before the disaster that befell New Orleans, I asked him the all-important question.
"Did he save his 1/2 mint bag of original 1983-P mint state quarters? Indeed, they were saved."
He did tell me that he believes many stamp and coin collections may have been damaged in New Orleans still sitting in flooded homes and banks. I realized that this is crazy talk when so many lives have been lost and/or ruined but even our hobby has suffered as well for possibly decades to come in addition to the tragedy that we are now seeing.
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Its good he got out in time though.
Then get me prices on Mint store sets (specimin sets).
Not only were so many collectible coins destroyed in this catastrophe but many millions
of circulating coins were also destroyed. These will be bulldozed into landfills. Many others
will again be rousted from their current depositories to again be left at the tender mercies
of circulation.
We can only hope that the survivors are able to rebuild their cities and lives and that the
death toll is as low as possible.
Still, I'm pleased to hear the quarters survived.
I believe I had stated this sad story here about a year ago.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
<< <i>I have a good friend who grew up in Sea Isle City in nj. He tells me , and has shown me, a breakwater offshore. That WAS the street his grandfather lived on. In 1944 a massive storm altered the coastline forever. His grandfather was a bank VP and fairly wealthy. Three safes were lost out there.... Ed tells me over a million dollars is in them. >>
Sounds like a job for the CU forum search party
<< <i>Most have the common sense not to talk about such things when they get lucky. Cheers, RickO >>
It's likely the attrition on these was 30% in just a few hours and it remains high since
some are still becoming unrecoverable. Even the dislocation of significant percentages
of the population leads to attrition as many of these will be lost or discarded in moves.
Time has a way of destruction about it and the future is never really predictable except
that about 1% of things are lost annually unless they are protected. As the flooded
banks prove even protection can be insufficient.
<< <i>What was really affected the most in the flooding were the Mardi Gras doubloons. >>
Not sure how "rare" these are as you can buy them in bulk at less than a dime a pop (at least the aluminum ones, not the silver ones obviously). But as kids we used to love playing Mardi Gras all year long and throw our collected beads and doubloons off the balcony to each other.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!