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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 2474580, member: 80121&quot;]There are nice people out there and &quot;coin people&quot; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Boxes 5 and 6 were loose foreign coins- I don&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;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&#039;t be anything left after the Trade Show. Members wanted to buy, above Red Book listing, coins right on the spot.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think we&#039;re going to be able to help this family. Nice People? They&#039;re out there, you just have to be a little more careful than when us old timers were kids.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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