This must have been the most lucky Seated Liberty Half ever made. I purchased it from a man who said his Great Grandpa carried it for luck. I asked him if he had any idea what the date was but he did not. As you can see by the pics he must have carried it a whole lot.
Wow it almost looks like a coin blank before it was pressed he must have never left home without it. I can't believe the man sold it to you it seems like he would want to keep it for semtimental value if his great grandfather carried it for luck.
My thoughts too. The cynical side of me says the story was made up as a hook to get and keep the buyer's attention.
The story could have may have been made up but for $2 I dont really care. He was selling several coins but said he was keeping most of them.
Some people place no sentimental value on stuff like this. I saw a guy at a coin show selling stamped covers that were used to send letters from his father to his mother during WWI, and this was then something like 70 years after the war had ended. Yesterday at auction I bid on and won a WWI Memorial plaque that was made for the family of a British soldier killed during WWI, it has his name on it and should still be with his family, but evidently someone didn't want it anymore and cast it off to be sold at public auction. I bought it, because the plaques are large CD-Rom sized medals that have the soldiers name on them and were sent by the Admiralty to the soldiers survivors, wives, parents etc. Many people did not like getting them, and they were referred to as "death pennies". I will keep this piece in memory of this long ago otherwise forgotten by his family and his country WWI hero.
I go to alot of auctions and flea markets and it always amazes me what people will sell for money some times even just a few bucks. I once purchased Dog Tags from a man who was in WW II, he told me he didn't think he would need them anymore.
