It pays to be nice sometimes

If you've never read any of my post before I work at a carryout/convenience store and yesterday I was talking to an elderly gentleman that has came to where I work for years, well yesterday I mentioned that I am a coin collector and have been for a while now and he said he was as well and we talked as long as we could through the drive thru. Well today he came back in and gave me this 2000 ASE as a tip for the many years of being nice to him and his wife and said that he has a large collection and that I am welcome over to his house anytime to look and discuss coins and currency. Real nice fella he's been collecting since the 50's and I cant wait to go over to discuss things and to pick his brain. I know the pic's arent that great but they dont need to be for this coin its just a bullion coin that has wear but I thought i'd post some pics anyways, like the thread says sometimes it pays to be nice

 

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Let's hope he's nice - I would be scared he would knock me out and chain me up in his basement - Although I do watch A lot of horror movies!!

 

I just literally spit my drink laughing haha, sometimes you also have to take a chance. Darn horror films they make you wonder about that kinda stuff lol.

 

Funny - Yeah - I gotta quit watching the Horror Channel after Midnight!!

 

Lots of nice folks out there. You just never know who you are talking with.

 

Looks like he's passed on a pocket piece to somebody he hopes will appreciate it and keep up the practice. Enjoy!

 

There are nice people out there and "coin people" seem to be in that category. A friend and fellow Vietnam Vet and coin club member passed away earlier this year rom cancer. He left behind a wife and two daughters and a stack of bills.

His wife called me and said that the girls had packed the coins he had left into cartons and would I help sell them for them. I don't know of any coin guy or girl who would have said no. I said sure and they said they would drop off the cartons.

Two days later they pulled up into my driveway and we started to unload 10 file boxes of coins. They were, I was told, not organized, so I should take my time putting them into some kind of order and then sell them for what I considered a fair price. Word got out to the coin club and before I knew it I started to get phone calls from members volunteering to help me. We got together on a Saturday and here's what we found: Boxes 1 to 4 were loose cardboard flips of Lincoln cents, We decided to put them, by date, into plastic pages and then into notebooks. One group worked on that.

Boxes 5 and 6 were loose foreign coins- I don't collect them and had no idea what to value them at. Phone calls were made and three more members came over and took the 2 boxes with them with the promise of organizing them into plastic pages and then notebooks.

Boxes 7 and 8 were easy, they had complete Dansco Albums- Franklin Halves, Eisenhower Dollars, Roosevelt Dimes, Kennedy Halves and 1941 to 2006 Lincoln Cents.

Boxes 9 and 10 contained supplies: cardboard flips, plastic pages, coin rolls, etc. We are determined to get everything together by July 25th, the scheduled date for our coin club's Trade Fair. Anything left, I would be given a table at our semi-annual Coin Show in November, but I have a feeling there won't be anything left after the Trade Show. Members wanted to buy, above Red Book listing, coins right on the spot.

I think we're going to be able to help this family. Nice People? They're out there, you just have to be a little more careful than when us old timers were kids.

 

Lovely story. God bless you..........

 

Aren't you from Cleveland though? May not be the movies....

 

And may God Bless OP's friend too.........the world needs more folks like you. They're out there, though sometimes incognito.

 

Lovely story..........

 

BTK was from Kansas, wasn't he?

 

You people are way to paranoid !

 

Nice story Mont. Welcome home ! RVN. 68/69

 

What's the problem, man?

What's wrong with guys livin' in van down by the river?

 

They become motivational speakers

 

It puts the lotion in the basket, it does this anytime it's told

 

I believe so... but I'm thinking of that Cuban (?) dude in Cleveland.

 

Alright @eric6794 ! Glad to read your story after you were helping to me. I definitely agree good things happen to those who do good. People gravitate to those that are pleasant.

Hope the meet with the older collector goes well. Just in case of the horror movie scenario, be sure to tell someone you know exactly where you are going and have them call you if they don't hear from you by x o'clock. If they don't get through then call for help. I don't think that would be likely with someone you have seen for years who also collects coins but just in case. Take care.

 

It's kind of sad we can't trust people.

Safety first, I suppose. Yes, I hope the meeting is fruitful!