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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Whendric, post: 13483064, member: 143854&quot;]It&#039;s going to stay on the dinning room table for now. I&#039;m only thinking about getting it looked at again because of it&#039;s special story. Value is nice to know but not my motivation at all. I just want the coin to get the credit that I think it deserves, as silly as that may sound.</p><p><br /></p><p>If my hypothesis is correct, it&#039;s story would make a great Hollywood movie. Something similar to the Red Violin but staring Kevin Costner, Sam Elliot, maybe Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a brisk fall day in Carson City, Nevada, the hard working employees of the US Mint are beginning to roll out a new and different kind of coin. This time it was not gold but silver. Silver mined locally, from the famed Comstock Load discovered in the distant hills above the sleepy frontier town. Steam billowed from the brand new coin press and out pops a shiny new silver dollar. The coin immediately goes into a coin roll, with 9 others just like it. The rolls are then are loaded into a large canvas bag.</p><p><br /></p><p>Traveling east, in the back of a coal powered railroad car, the coin makes it&#039;s way. Traveling safely through hostile Indian Country and managing to avoid gangs of train robbers on horseback, the coin finally makes it&#039;s way across the mighty Mississippi River. Crossing the frontier, the train winds it&#039;s way through the Appalachian Mountains until it reaches Union Station in Washington DC. From there the coin is loaded into the back of a horse driven Wells Fargo wagon. Surrounded by a posse of US Marshall&#039;s on horseback, the &quot;money wagon&quot; makes it&#039;s way down Pennsylvania Avenue to the US Treasury. Under the protection of armed guards, the coin would quickly be unloaded, eventually finding it&#039;s way into the basement vault. There it would sit in quiet solitude and contemplation for another 50 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Time marches on. Fast forward to post-war America. Harry Truman is living next door to the US Treasury in the White House. Eventually, the coin makes it&#039;s way from the vault to the cashier&#039;s money drawer. One crisp December afternoon just before Christmas, my Great Aunt walks into the US Treasury building, approaches the cashier window and asks for a roll of silver dollars. The clerk reaches into the dusty canvas bag, ravaged by time and a long hard journey. He pulls out a $10 dollar paper wrapped roll of silver dollars and hands it to my Great Aunt.</p><p><br /></p><p>From there the coins make their way to my Great Aunt&#039;s house. I&#039;m not sure how many kids were in the family at that time but I think there were probably 5-6 between the ages of 10-18 years of age. The coins would go into small stockings, and be hung from the mantle. As [USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER] pointed out, it would have, most likely, been spit polished before going into the stocking. Probably a common practice back in the day but when we fast forward another 70 years; that simple act, much to the chagrin of her modern day descendant (i.e. me), removed the luster from the coin and left little black spittle dots all over it.</p><p><br /></p><p>After Christmas, my mom believes that the coin would have gone into her dresser drawer and stayed there until she married my dad in 1958. After they got married, they would have opened up a joint checking account at the bank and purchased a safe deposit box. When she moved out of her parents house into their first apartment, the coin would have gone into the bank vault at that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was there, left in the quiet darkness of the bank vault, along with 6 other silver dollars from other Christmas&#039; past (a couple other Morgan&#039;s and several Peace dollars), the coin sat waiting patiently until the year 2022. This past summer, I took my mom to the bank to put away some estate papers. While we were there, we took the time to sit down in a little room next to the vault and take a look at what else was in the box.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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