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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1362830, member: 15929&quot;]I&#039;m always amazed at the number of folks that can be critical when a user posts an incredible find! </p><p>Eventually the thread turns into questioning the &quot;ethics&quot; of the OP who then rightfully defends his/her position and usually gets fairly bent out of shape and then walks away wondering what the heck happened!</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, fine, you&#039;d have handled it another way. You&#039;re a stand up guy but then, you weren&#039;t really there and you have no idea what the circumstances surrounding the transaction might have been. None.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just for the information of the general public, there are folks out there that simply DO NOT CARE. They are not afflicted with the same obsessive compulsive behavior that a lot of collectors are infected with! Most view coin collecting as trivial and non-sensical and view coins simply as money. Nothing more and nothing less. I&#039;m always pointing out relative values of what I find to my family but, they just do not see it the way I do. None have developed an interest in even looking at their money!</p><p><br /></p><p>A few months back, a lady came into my local bank with bags and rolls of Kennedy Half Dollars that she wanted to deposit in her account. My wife happened to view the transaction through the Drive Up tellers window which just happenes to have a clear view of the tellers windows.</p><p><br /></p><p>She called me and I trotted down and bought every one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The teller had spotted quite a few silver coins in the clear plastic bag and when I inquired, she related that she &quot;had&quot; informed the customer that there was silver in the bags and that she &quot;might&quot; want to consider visiting a Coin Shop so that she could get more than face value for the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The customer did not care. She simply wanted to get rid of the coins as she was tired of looking at them.</p><p><br /></p><p>That decision, by that customer, put $1,000 into my pocket even though she was fully informed. The rolls of coin yielded some very nice Kennedy&#039;s with a few RPM&#039;s and DDO&#039;s that had obviously been collected. For the record, this was a middle aged woman who was a regular customer of the bank and not a young lady who was fencing stolen coins for her boyfriend.</p><p><br /></p><p>You really had to be there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do I feel bad for her? Sure but then I realize that &quot;she&quot; doesn&#039;t feel bad since &quot;she&quot; was doing what &quot;she&quot; wanted to do! NOT what I might have &quot;thought&quot; she was doing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure it would be nice to educate the general public about coins so that they could profit from their accumulations or finds but to most it would simply be a bore and in the OP&#039;s case, the lady was in there to buy gas, not get a lesson on coin values.</p><p><br /></p><p>Congrats to the OP!</p><p><br /></p><p>Nice find![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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