Convenience store snag

The local store by my house is owned and operated by a family from India. The sons grew up and were schooled in the states.They don't collect coins but keep all the silver certificates they get.They have shown me alot of what they save but they won't part with the old $20's & $50's.They do give me the Star notes though and any silver they get.Usually dimes and a couple of quarters and ASE's. Yesterday I stopped in and they had this bag for me. What a surprise ! 86 washington quarters 3 dimes and a couple 30's nickels.They only charged me $23. I told them they were worth more but they said they didn't have time to mess with them and Happy Easter.They told me they were cashed in by a guy buying beer and smokes. He's not a local cuz they said they had never seen him before. Whoever he was THANKS. John

 

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I'll bet the guy he stole them from isn't thanking him!

 

Now why would you say that? Some people just do not know what they have.

 

Nice little find you got there.

 

In b4 Senior Citizen malarkey.

 

Huh, there's no proof for that.

At least you were honest with them about the silver value. If they don't want to bother with 'em, then it's just your lucky day!

 

Why stop there, maybe it was an old retired gentleman who has been saving these and to make ends meet needed to spend them to keep his beer and cigarettes stocked up. Shame on the convenience store for not offering him 15x, no, 20x face value or directing him to a coin dealer!!!

 

my guess would be A) the person didnt know or B) just didnt give a hoot about the value of the coins. either way life is tough, crap happens, their loss, his gain.

and that's awfully nice of the people running the store to just let him have the coins so cheaply. good karma for them IMO.

 

congradulations if you weren't to have them they would have been given out in change or spent at another store. any grate find.

 

Great pick up! :thumb:

 

Great finds! Congrats! I just hope this doesn't turn out like the other thread. :goof: Doesn't matter though, you got some nice coins there, and all that really needs said is congrats! :thumb:

Phoenix

 

Oh you mean about donating half to a senior citizens home, or maybe go back and see who turned them it. Its must have been the same PHANTOM SENIOR that dropped off all those halves at my bank

 

Indeed!

 

Exactly! That guy's been busy since he also dropped off $15 in silver quarters and dimes for cesariojpn.

 

Thanks everyone and I did find out about the guy.He came back to the store today but he had gone to the bank for pocket money first. His mother passed away and he was left eveything. He got into FL. Sat. night to the house he inherited and there were coffee cans with coins in them. The banks were not open and he just took some of the coins to go to the store. He told the clerk he was going to sort the rest of the coins and probably sell them and the house as he lives with his family out of state. The clerk has my phone number so maybe I can get somemore of his little hoard. Thanks again, John

 

Oh, you're just teasing us. ::: Imagining a caravan of Cointalk members heading toward Florida :::

 

The guy came back into the store and when they gave him my # he said that he had already sold the coins to a jewelry store.There is one 2-3 blocks up the street with a big LED sign that says We Buy Gold & Silver Coins.The bad part is that they don't sell them. I'll just be happy with what I got. A little disappointed but oh well. John

 

Know why that jewlery store does not sell coins? If anything like the ones around here those coins will be melted down and made into jewlery. Many, possibly most, jewlers do not collect coins for thier coin value. They make way to much money on jewlery to worry about possilbe valuable coins that they have no idea on how to sell. Ane why should they? They already have a place where they can sell what they make.
To a Numismatist it is always hart breaking when they hear of this but it happens all the time around where I'm at.

 

Great find - good for you!

 

Great find Dready. Good for you. I dont get why some of the folks here seem bitter about it. While not bitter, I am jealous. Some nice quarters you got there....Oh wait. Maybe some old guys robbed a laundromat back in the early 60s. and over the years beer guy killed the other two for the big cash cow. But he is senile so he forgot to invest it and just grabbed some Keystone and a pack of Luckys.