Right place....right time!!

The other day I stopped at a mom and pop truck stop in Pa. (Im a trucker). Needed a bag of ice and didn’t need a snickers ice cream bar, but bought one anyway. Total was $3.98 so I gave the young clerk a $10 bill. She gave me back correct change but the pennies looked different and weird. Looked again at them and they were wheats. Asker her if she had any more that looked like these and she said “sure do, all of these”.47 total so I said here’s a dollar, I will give you .50 cents for them. She gave 2 quarters back, I put them in the wheats and into my pocket and back to my truck to check out the wheats. Emptied my pocket, and when I heard that specific “tink tink” sound of silver I looked closer at the quarters. There it was, a 1964 quarter. So, rushed back in and asked her if she had anymore “old quarters”. She dumped the till of quarters on the counter and much to my surprise, there were 24 beautiful silver rounds staring up at me. Bought them for face value. Checked the dimes and nickels, but no luck! And the wheats were ALL 1943 steels. One would not pickup with a magnet, but I can’t read the date so I not sure whether it could be a 1943 copper. It’s kind of strange it would be in with all ‘43’ steelies. She said that all were in rolls so if I had just been earlier maybe my haul would be bigger! If your from the Poconos in Pa. check your change!

 

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That is one of the best face value finds i've seen!

 

Should have checked the dimes and nickels.

 

Win Win!

 

Wow! That's incredible! Meow could not even dream to have such a huge score. Congrats to you.

The closest Meow ever got to such a find, was to get five silver quarters in one roll.

 

$6 worth of silver quarters? I wonder who would roll up so many silver quarters.

 

Amazing!

 

Lousy introduction by me for a first post, but I had to comment on your find.
That was a honey hole for sure! Congrats.

 

Nice! The quarters aren't real worn either.

 

I’m guessing they were already wrapped with no markings or someone got into grandpas stash or maybe even from a home robbery. Either way that person didn’t know what they had.

 

I did but no luck!

 

That beats my brother-in-laws find of bank rolls he got for his business and found out the dimes were mostly Mercury dimes!

 

WOW! I would love to have found those! Keep on truckin'! (Fellow driver here!)

 

Great find and you had the “cents” to go back to ask if she had any more!!!

 

How do you not ask for the entire till of change at that point? LOL. I would of ran to a bank and gave them an exchange so they would still have change. MAN that's awesome.

 

Outstanding

 

I had something like that happen at an Airport in N.Y. as I was flying overseas in the Army. I was half asleep near the Gift shop and heard the clinking of silver like a dinner bell. I was curious so since i had HOURS to wait I walked in the gift shop and saw a chubby kid about 18 years old getting cash money for the small pile of change. I looked at the lady and the pile and saw Morgan dollars (about 12) I offered to buy them for $5.00 each (in 1976) she said no I said $6.00 each. she sold them. Think back I think it was the "Grandpa's" stash thing, feel kinda bad. But still have the Morgans.

 

Why would someone spend their granddads collection, are they daft or something! At least sell it for gods sake!

 

I was actually thinking theft. I had a coin collection stolen by Family members while I was overseas. Some family members witnessed the case it was in carried away but could never truly prove it. So I let the subject drop.