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Stolen from who ? The old women that turned them in after her husband died ...

 

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"Strong chance"? There's certainly a possibility, but the rest of the world isn't like the members here; most simply don't care about coins, so to suggest to this young lady that her score is likely due to theft is unfair. Chances are just as great, if not greater, that someone either didn't know or didn't care when spending them.

What I do find interesting is that when another individual blatantly stole from someone, buying thousands in silver alone at face value, most of the board wouldn't hear of him/her doing anything wrong, but this girl gets a totally legit score, and many are worried they're stolen. Go figure...


Congrats, Danielle!

 

I found that other instance dispicable as well. The fact that they are all different dates and mint marks including a 17 s reverse and a 33 s tells us that they were from a collection but who can speculate what happened. Many years ago, when I worked in a bank, several of us actively discouraged a widow from depositing a $500 bill for face value but she didn't care.

 

An owner of a local 7-11 in town was telling me a couple of years ago about someone who inherited about $1000 face in silver coins - which he promptly spent at you guessed it - 7-11. The store owner would collect them all up at the end of the week and take them to one of those metal buying businesses and sell for what was then about 10X face. So it does happen. I myself have gotten walkers, bens, and even a Peace dollar from the bank in the last couple of years.

 

Oh no! I didn't even think about that! I will check with the local police and see if they are...I know if those were mine I would want them back! I'll keep y'all posted!

 

Yes indeed... Most likely from a collection, but that in no way means they're likely stolen. Unfortunately, being in or part of a collection in no way guarantees that a coin or coins will not be used for their originally intended purpose, and is something you've clearly experienced for yourself.

You're right, we can only speculate, but when doing so it should be made very clear this young lady, unlike the other individual, did absolutely NOTHING wrong here.

 

When I was a kid, I bought plastic models with circulated Morgan dollars that my grandfather had given me. After spending about $14 mom got suspicious about where the money was coming from as I never had a job, chores, or an allowance.

 

Great find! Be sure to check the 1942 and 1946 for the doubled die reverse that's found on a minority of these dates. In mid-grade circulated neither is worth a whole lot but they are nice doubled dies nonetheless.

 

Wow, nice find. Did the cashier say anything about them?

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Why yes he did...he said that he hates half dollars he only likes to collect $2 bills and dollar coins lol!! I didn't ask him why (just thought he was a weirdo for saying that) I bought them and hauled butt out of the store

 

Right place at the right time with the eagle eyes wide open. Well done!

 

Nice score!

 

I got a Peace dollar from a bank teller just two or three months ago!

 

One of the guys that works at my bank found a 1921 Peace Dollar metal detecting. It's in nice shape. So jealous!

 

I totally agree that those halves were most likely stolen, and it would be a great kindness to see them returned to the rightful owner.

 

I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but there is no way to even begin to speculate on whether these were stolen or not, any more than the halves I have found in quanity over the past few weeks in MWRs were stolen. People through ignorance and desperation will spend the money they have. If you had found these in MWRs every one of you would have not said boo about them being stolen, but because the person chose to spend them instead of taking the 10% loss from the coinstar fee, they all of a sudden are stolen. ALL coin finds, whether at the bank in MWR or CWR, or store should now be considered stolen because someone's grandfather left them coins they had no idea of their value? Give me a break. The vast majority of people have no idea what the coins in their pockets or grandpas shoebox under his bed are made of.

I expect each of you that find any quality of silver going forward to call your local police departments and check to see if there have been any robberies.

Danielle, great finds. You should not be concerned about them being stolen. If there is a coinstar machine in the store there is probably more waiting to be sorted.

 

Beautiful finds! Yesterday I was talking to a bank manager and he told me about all the coins that come in. One guy brought in a bag of 100 Morgans and was wanting $100.00. The Manager told him to go to a dealer to get some real money. The guy didn't care. Then the manager told me that a guy in line behind him overheard what was going on and bought the Morgans at a decent price. He also said people bring ASE's in all the time trying to get face value. I congratulate Danielle for her score and contacting the police over a roll of Walkers sounds like the most ridiculous thing ever. Go Danielle! You just scored about the same amount of 90% halves that I have except it took me 6 months and tons of boxes to do so.

 

Great score! Like others have said people do cash in old silver for face all the time, that's how I got 3 90% halves and a peace dollar at the bank a couple yrs ago. That's nothing compared to this haul but it just further illustrates the point that these probably weren't stolen. People made these same accussations when a member posted a huge silver haul a few months ago, tisk tisk

 

Its pretty funny that we have posts here all the time about checking your change and searching rolls. Many of you search 100's of rolls a month if not more looking for the 1 or 2 miscellaneous scarce coins. Here is a situation where a large number of walkers show up at one place all together and a few of you think its no big deal.
Even with the belief that some little old widow doesn't know that the coins her husband of 50 years collected were actually worth money. OMG.

Okay so there are some old people who suffer from dementia. There are some husbands that probably hide their purchases from their spouses. There are some kids that inherit coins and don't care about them. We can make up a whole lot of excuses of why these coins appeared. But.....

Every month you can read articles in Coin World or the Bank Note Reporter where people are reporting thefts of collections. They're stolen from cars, homes and dealers and sometimes with tragic results. Sometimes you can read about the items being found by other observant dealers and arrests being made. Stopping in at the local police department is not painful, its not going to get you in trouble, its not saying you're going to "lose" your find. You'll get a pat of the back and a thank you for coming in. You'll get the self satisfaction of attempting to do what is right.

If someone steals my collection I sure as heck hope that someone comes forward if they see my items in a store and not accuse my wife of 40 years for selling my large cent collection because she doesn't know their worth money.

Danielle you were observant. I would have done the same thing as you. But I would have taken one further step. If no reports have been filed you can enjoy the find.