Ok, wich one of you did this? 1881 gold coin found in Conn. donation kettle

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_rare_coin_donation

 

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You are up early today Yankee! I wonder if it was done on purpose, or if some elderly lady just pulled it out of her coin purse and dropped it in not realizing?

 

Yes I am! I am on a Princess cruise ship using my laptop on their wireless Internet (SAT). At this moment we are passing the island of Cuba and heading to a Caribbean island. The web is a little slow on Bord but its nice to have in your stateroom. The view this morning from our balcony is great!. I highly recommend cruising! And thanks to APMEX and the gold profit I made from selling to them they made my cruise possible. AAAA 10 days being catered to! what a life!. O, O! I see a Cuban patrol boat its sitting between us and Cuba They watch these waters.

 

Congrats!!! I did that years ago and it was a blast. Ahhh...those mid-night feasts they would set up!!! Ice sculptures!
I remember we scheduled massages, and my wife went in an hour before me, so I went to the casino and found out I only had $10 in my pocket, but walked out with $165. Paid for our massages. Those were the good old days! Next time I want to go to Alaska! I hear that's a good one too!
Have fun and don't chase too many wild bikinis, ha!

 

My wife and I go on 2-3 cruises a year. The price of a cruise vacation is less then a land one. You only have to unpack your stuff 1 time. No driving , And they even bring our breakfast to the room set it up on the balcony. We are on the new ship called the Ruby. The food is wonderfull! you eat as much and as often as you want. The only thing that cost you extra is your booze. We found a way around that cost all you do is poor your store bought booze into those disposable water bottles and put the water bottles in your luggage. They never catch you and it cuts down on the drinking bill!.

 

I remember not wanting for anything. We were on a Carnival back then, one of their 2 newest biggest ones. At dinner at night they would even pop the linnen and lay in in your lap, stand there just in case you wanted anything. In our cabins, there was one person that stood in front of every 2 rooms waiting to see if you needed any little thing. I remember doing some shooting off the back of the ship which was a lot of fun. The glass elevators, all the shopping for the wife, or ex-wife now, HA!
We went to an Island called Treasure Island if my memory serves me right. That was fun. Yep, the ship was like living in a small city with all the bigtime Las Vegas type fun! Cruises are a great way to relax! Have fun buddy!

 

You did that at Thanksgiving, and now ran off to the Bahamas huh Yankee?
I wonder why the machine didn't recognize it, HA!

A Connecticut Salvation Army chapter got a pleasant surprise when its members were counting change dropped into one of the organization's holiday donation kettles. Members found a rare 1881 "half eagle" coin last week while counting donations made somewhere in Torrington on the day after Thanksgiving.
The half eagle was the country's first-ever gold coin and had a face value of $5. It was in circulation from 1795 to 1929.
Lt. Alan Galentine of the Salvation Army's Torrington Corps. said the chapter will be having the coin appraised, but it appears it's worth between $250 and $400. He said it's not clear at which location the coin was donated.
The coin was found when a change counting machine didn't recognize the half eagle and separated it from other coins.

 

Something of a tradition that's been going on for years:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-12-07-goldcoins_x.htm

 

I think this coin was found! the story says The coin was found when a change counting machine didn't recognize the half eagle and separated it from other coins

 

This is awsome. I wish christmas was all year so people would contribute to social justice every day. We should put togeather a CT charitey drive.

 

I appreciate the generosity of the donor, but it would be much better and less costly for the Salvation Army if they just wrote a check or stuff some $100 bills in the kettle. My point is that they will go to sell the coin and not reap the total value of it from the buyer.

 

I think it would have been better had they given the coin to me instead! LOL

 

so you could reap more profits from it then the salvation army will I assume then donate said money back to them to help out more.

heck maybe with the excess profits you will bring in you can actually buy a drink at the bar on your ship! and still help out the salvation army!

QUICK! SOMEONE GET THE SALVATION ARMY ON THE PHONE FOR YANKEE!

 

Call me a skeptic, but having a background in marketing I would say that if (and I am only saying "if") I was a charitable organization, it would behoove me to drop one anonymously in my own kettle.

Not only is the publicity that they get from these every year is a free advertisement for their charity, the idea now present in the public mind might be "Hmmm, maybe I could do that!" and this is a brilliance to this strategy. Whether or not they ever did seed their own kettle, or continue to do so to this day, it is a fantastic goodwill and publicity campaign that costs them nothing and pays HUGE dividends.

It is my skeptical nature that makes me think this way, but understand that this IS the way that Madison Ave, thinks.

At the end of the day if more people are fed, and better cared for, then I don't really care if they do. (the Salvation Army, NOT Madison Ave.)