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Have you ever found a valuable coin in your overstuffed chair
adamlaneus
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Everyone has experience with sofas and coins. Non magnetic metals are attracted to sofas.
What about the overstuffed chair? You know, the one you sit in, sipping cognac, browsing numismatic references. Suppressing your frothy frenzy so that you can get a clear look at a special coin under the nearby lamp.
How many valuable coins have you inadvertently let slip into between the cushions of the overstuffed chair?
What about the overstuffed chair? You know, the one you sit in, sipping cognac, browsing numismatic references. Suppressing your frothy frenzy so that you can get a clear look at a special coin under the nearby lamp.
How many valuable coins have you inadvertently let slip into between the cushions of the overstuffed chair?
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At that time I was a stamp collector, so they went to my brother who was collecting coins- I found out later that he used them to buy cigarettes
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
The day I found these coins, I sat with them in our old blue recliner, lining them up on the velvety arm rests for individual examination. At one point the chair shifted, and one of the Morgans dropped into the chair - I made every effort to find it, but it was lost in the mechanism - or was it just my imagination that it had gotten lost in the first place?
Years went by, and finally it was time to throw the chair away. It got dragged out to the corner for collection, and while it was there I decided to take one last sit in it - after all, it was quite a novel thing to see our old family chair sitting outside on the lawn. When I pulled the lever to extend the foot rest I heard something drop - it was the Morgan dollar I had lost in it years before, which I had all but forgotten about!
Incidentally, my father & I in our ignorance polished all of those Morgans soon after I got my hands on them - I still have them in the little metal pirate chest he kept them in as a child - because that one Morgan got lost in that chair for all those years, it was spared the same fate as the others.
>>>My Collection
it had an expiration date on it- 12/2001..