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Message:: [QUOTE="wesdavidson, post: 587572, member: 18646"]Sleepers are not always predictable. An elderly friend let me look through her old cotton 5 lb sugar bag last year. It had about 600 old coins, less than about $150 face, she has been a "D" for 60 of her 90 years. These were her pin money, dropped in the bag from her wages as a store clerk, she had never heard of grades and mintmarks. When they took silver out of circulation she set it aside.  There was about $3,500 in conservative graded old circulated coins, a few NICE Carson City dollars, a lot of worn stuff, a few key dates. They are back sleeping in the sugar bag,  She won't part  with them, we won't if some come to us. The fact that they have been hers will mean a lot to her kids.      I would love to come across an old house papered with confederate money. They existed at one time.      Yes, the categories could use tweaking. It was meant to be humorous without hurting feelings. Anyone is welcome to start a thread on collector types. I was a D for 30 years - then my kids got the jar... my wife was a D then I got some flips and 10,000 staples.. She is a solid E, she has a hundred kerosene lamps, 40 orchids, and a post office window in the living room (she claims they are my lamps). I am now solidly a G with future hopes toward becoming an F in 30 more years. ( recently a dealer handed me the windex "you smudged it, you clean it!").[/QUOTE]