I guess this could be considered coin roll hunting for someone..... Years ago (1998) my parents were retiring to AZ and my mother had a large collection of half dollars and silver dollars. She was NOT a coin collector but had always set them away when she got them. For years and years..... Well, when they move, she does not know any better and just takes them to her bank and cashes them in for face value. I was not a collector then and did not know she did that but after stashing all those away, I KNOW there was quite a bit of silver in there. I do know that there were no Morgans or anything old but plenty of silver Kennedys.... Would have been a score for anyone who went to that bank to get some rolls. Damn.
Yep, it's the numismatic circle of life. You find coins, you lose coins; you buy coins, you sell coins; you pick coins out of circulation, and eventually uninformed heirs or burglars put them back into circulation. One day, maybe soon, coins won't circulate any more. Until then, things like this will happen.
To some people it's just money. To other's it is a numismatic collection/hoard. I assume she got it as money. And thus knew it as money only.
My first grade teacher did the same thing when she heard of the "coin shortage." I had to tell her the truth even as an elementary student.
Coin Shortage? maybe I should advertise to friends that there's a coin shortage and I'm short coins .. so sell me all of their old coins. LMAO
It would be interesting to know why she saved them away in the first place. Presumably at one time she thought they were were worth keeping, but then that reasoning changed.
Back in the early 60's my dad's bachelor uncle passed away, leaving his estate to my dad and his brother. He was a retired farmer who never had much in the way of possessions. However, he did have two five gallon buckets full of coins; many half dollars, quarters, and dimes. Unfortunately, I was only about 10 at the time and not yet into coins. Needless to say, they took the buckets of change to the bank. To this day I always wonder what key dates could have been in there.
