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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 8561973, member: 74863&quot;]Just an FYI to all that care enough to read this thread. As most of you know I worked overtime for years at the Post Office while I managed it. Lots of extra money so I saved a lot and I invested a lot. My investment in coins is why I now write this. </p><p>I’m opening boxes that I never opened when working. Too tired and not enough time. I worked, ate, mowed the 7 acres and slept. My wife says I slept too much but she never woke me unless she had to.</p><p>Today I opened 1 box that’s been sealed for years, 6 years to be exact, to the month. My unopened boxes, envelopes and the like date back to 2009 and seem to stop about 2017, the year I retired. Now I order and the packages sit for a month or two before I get to them. I have 3 boxes from the past month.</p><p>At any rate, I opened this box today, small but heavy for its size. Wand what do I find in there? 225 Morgan Silver Dollars and $100 face value in junk silver. So far I’ve only look at 100 of the Morgan’s and I have 44 different dates and mint marks.</p><p>That’s almost half of every date and mint mark minted, not counting all of the varieties. The best find, and I’ll do a separate thread on it later, is a 1878 8 tail feathers coin.</p><p>The reason for this post is a fair warning to all. They were stored in the correct manner. None of the coins were damaged by any elements. The silver dollars were all packed 20 per in a plastic tube with a small piece of styrofoam on the top coin to prevent rattling. Each tube was wrapped with tape to secure the screw-on lid. </p><p>The strapping tape was the worst. I removed the tape and it left a sticky residue on the tube and my fingers. Mind you, I’m careful how I handle these but what a mess. And the strings on the strapping tape are stuck on the tube so it’s not like you can remove it in one motion.</p><p>Don’t let this happen to you!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1510785[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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