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Some things you just don't want to hear.

DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
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My wife told me she was talking with a coworker from across the hall. The lady told my wife that her father recently sold a buch of silver dollars (6 months ago) for $10 each. My wife told here that I would pay more (thank goodness) and also learned that he had a "bunch" of coins in Alka Seltzer bottles that have been there since they were put up....

Hopefully.

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    LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    Very interesting and sounds promising. What was the inside neck diameter on an Alka Seltzer bottle?
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    DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Very interesting and sounds promising. What was the inside neck diameter on an Alka Seltzer bottle? >>



    I don't know yet but hope to find out. I think I'll send my card to work with her tomorow.
    I'm paying a minimum of 16 for dollars, hopefully that will at least get me a chance to see what's left.
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    melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    If my memory of hangovers serves me correctly, an Alka Seltzer bottle would hold from a 25¢ coin down. It was not big enough for a half dollar.

    Ron

    Edited to add:

    Back then we would put coins in anything that would hold them and protect them. The possibity of chemical reactions to the coins, well we didn't even think about it.
    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
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    LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    I don't remember Alka Seltzer, but I have seen old commercials of them being dropped into a glass of water and the size looked to be about a like a quarter or less. That is why I asked.
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    stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    Maybe a half dollar or so, IIRC.


    Good luck and update us if you find anything of interest.


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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Another potential treasure trove... always makes the treasure hunter in us all take notice... Let us know.. Cheers, RickO
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    GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭


    << <i>I don't remember Alka Seltzer, but I have seen old commercials of them being dropped into a glass of water and the size looked to be about a like a quarter or less. That is why I asked. >>


    Wow...!!!...I really feel for you....us old timers know Speedy real well....!!!!.....image
    ......Larry........image
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    dimplesdimples Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭
    "Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is"
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Make sure you warn her not to clean those coins. Non-collectors think that the coins will be more desirable when they've been shined up.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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    crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,230 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Make sure you warn her not to clean those coins. Non-collectors think that the coins will be more desirable when they've been shined up. >>



    Boy, you sure got that one right....image
    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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    LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What would the chemical makeup of alka selzer do to silver or copper?
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    mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    hope you find something!! At least your paying decent prices, a lot of CL ads, etc are paying dirt cheap prices!
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    LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭


    << <i>What would the chemical makeup of alka selzer do to silver or copper? >>




    I wondered the same thing yesterday, and figure 'at worst', it would result in beautiful toning in hues of red, blue, orange and yellow on the silver, and thick, green, crusty, flaky toning on the copper.
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 33,200 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd go the size of a quarter nothing bigger. I'm curious on what hes got in the bottles to image good luck with it
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    RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is" >>



    AND, "I can't believe I ate the whole thing!"
    "Ain't None of Them play like him (Bix Beiderbecke) Yet."
    Louis Armstrong

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