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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pop70, post: 2683106, member: 85114&quot;]Well thank you for sound advice, and good advice. Been around for a bit, too long actually. Till this here hobby got my real attention, my brain was like a handful of feathers put adrift in the wind .... just went everywhere. That being said I have learned to take little heed of the hidden innuendos, old timers saying if you will, an empty bucket makes a lot of noise .... can&#039;t believe I said that for it will more than likely be the nastiest thing I will ever post. Excuse that please; this first cup of coffee has not yet kicked in.</p><p>As for banks and silver, well I know of the best ones, (that is pretty bold huh?) The soil bank with a metal detector, would venture a guess here and say for the most part the more you dig, the more you find. A lonnngg time ago, I found a coin, of no great value, that was probably one of only a few left in existence; got everybody&#039;s curiosity up now <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> .... Found an old, what I presume,&nbsp; doctors bag. Had been out in the dessert for who knows how long, and the winds had given light to a corner of the bag (people out West know what it is I am talking about) back to the tail You could tell by what little contents where still within there was the corner of an envelope, and within that corner there was a coin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> so looked of course, and WOW a gold coin at that. Happy happy happy ... my first. Now I don&#039;t normally get rid of most of the things I have found so didn&#039;t this one either. Shortening the story, which I am sure you all are grateful for, I had picked up a copy of the numismatic news on a trip to the library just to look; several years later. There was an article with in that caught my eye; soooooo went home, dug out this little gem and sure enough I had one. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The article was about a Nichol that a fellow out east had plated with gold, would go into a business, (normally a &quot;tavern&quot; was the wording) toss this Nichol down order a beer, gather his change and leave .... that&#039;s pretty good really, get a beer and 4.95 in change for 5 cents. Latter that year of production, the mint started putting the word cents on the coin plus some stars if I remember correctly. The story does not end there as far as the coinage; the law did chase him down, and he did go to court on a counterfeiting charge, but was found not guilty. Why? The man could not speak, so he never deliberately committed&nbsp; fraud. (good attorney)... What ever happened to that coin, I will never know, but it is nifty to learn of some history on this. I am fairly sure that the article can be found in the vaults of the news but do not know for sure, very interesting article though. Sure wish I had it today. At the time was more of a let down for not having found a gold coin than anything else. Not to certain but I think the year of issue was/may have been in the 60&#039;s then again 80&#039;s sorry just not positive there, do know that in the red book it had stated something like with stars as a second entry for that date. Thought I would share.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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