Rare Gold Coin Found in Salvation Kettle

Hey everyone . I have short Salvation story about a coin found recently in my State . Don't know why the person chose this Coin but I like it . Enjoy .
Rare Gold Coin Found in Salvation Army Kettle in New Britain
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Rare Gold Coin Found in Salvation Army Kettle in New Britain



While collecting donations in New Britain, a Salvation Army officer found something special shining in the pot - someone dropped a gold coin into a red kettle in New Britain.

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The donated coin, a Wiener Philharmoniker 1995, Republik Osterreich is worth between $1,800 and $2,000.

It's not the first time someone has dropped a generous gift into a donation kettle - someone dropped another gold coin last year, and The Salvation Army says they've seen diamond rings and other jewelry, often accompanied by notes. Gold coins are some of the rarest gifts they've found.

“I never thought we would receive a donation like this,” said Lieutenant Will Rodriguez, corps officer of The Salvation Army in New Britain. “I am truly amazed and blessed with this donation, which will help us feed and help many families in our community. This has been a difficult year but donations like this allow us to continue to help and bring hope to those who need it most.”

Every year Salvation Army bell ringers can be found collecting donations to fund the organization's programs.

 

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"Rare" in change kettles, to be sure -- but someone, somewhere, does it just about every year. I like the gesture, but I feel like I'd benefit the SA more by selling the coin myself where I know I can get a good price and then donating the wad of cash.

On the other hand, maybe the SA has dealers or partners that respect their mission, and buy the coins at a fair (or even generous) price. If so, that would be nice to know.

 

Yea , I wasn't sure about it being rare either . I don't know how many articles I've read by the news that stated how coin was " stamped " instead of struck .

 

"rare" applies only if there are less then 10 known.

 

I agree. "Rare" can never be determined by quantity known alone, its always a correlation between quantity and demand. If 2000 people in the world may want to own something, I would agree less than 10 known is a fair estimation of rare. If 7 billion people on earth want to own something, there could be 10,000 known and be considered "rare".

Now, 645,500 of one date of a gold coin in no way is rare, not disagreeing there, just saying 10 can be too few demanding on demand for "rare" cutoff.

 

I think "rare" is one of those words advertisers/marketers use to get people interested...and it works! Other words they use are "new" and "free"..

 

This rare gold coin in a Salvation Army kettle is slowing becoming a Christmas time tradition.

 

...because it is part of a marketing campaign to garner further donations to the SA.

 

Now if someone gave the "Anglo Saxon gold cross" referenced above to the Salvation Army, well, that would be a news story.

 

This is certainly rarer than the typical bullion coin that often makes its way into the Salvation Army kettle.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa...a-salvation-army-will-be-auctioned-on-friday/

 

Not necessarily. Back when gold was in the $300-400 range and I was doing rather well personally I dropped a KR wrapped in a dollar bill in a kettle more than one Christmas. This was in CHicago where you could see the need on the streets every day.

 

They got it wrong. The hoard of 500-700 where found in Romania. I got mine for 1100 euros in FDC in 2014.

 

The modern hoard was found around 2010 or so. The market was flooded with them. Yours appears to be the earlier type, possibly struck by Brutus. The article shows one of a later type, most likely local imitations.

 

Thanks. That coin is still a mystery/ was Koson a King? Where these struck by Brutus to pay Sycthian warriors in climatic battle.? Thankfully someone buried a hoard of them/ means ordinary folks can collect them. The EID MAR Aureus just sold for 3.25 UK Pounds!

 

Robert K has an article about them. His view, (which I share), is the ones with the monogram in front of the men are Roman Republican issue to pay for Dacian mercenaries. He points out metal composition of these are in line with RR issues. The rougher issues without the monogram have a very different chemical composition of gold and trace metals, are not engraved as well, and are likely local imitations of the originals.

So, its known Brutus had Dacian mercenaries, so it leads to the idea these were Brutus payments for them. I am not sure of THAT part myself, it could be but to me not PROVEN but highly suspected. I guess I view them as RR provincial gold struck for some purpose, but were so common that Dacian imitations were made. Not uncommon, look at the "celtic" imitations everyone knows that some were not made by true celts.

If someone wished to label these with monogram "Brutus" I would not yell at them, its just I personally do not. I have Brutus coins, but this is not in that box.

 

It is certainly not a recent event. When I was a kid, many many years ago, I remember my parents talking of someone who put several gold coins in a church donation basket. I also remember when I tried to get change back from the donation basket. After the service my dad and uncle scolded me, but both my aunt and mother swatted my bottom, never did it again! Enjoyed the thread, thank you.

 

Someone has been dropping a krugerrand in a bucket in my town every year for the past 21 years.

 

from time to time someone will drop a gold and or a silver coin into one of the Red Kettles in front of my local Walmart in Jasper, Alabama. truth be know, it probably makes the person or people feel really good.