Police after woman who spends old coins

I am going to have to side with the little old lady. Hard to tell from the photos but she should have definitely received more than a single pack of smokes. I wished this task force would investigate "Little old ladies spending rare coins and getting ripped off." Someone has got to go to jail.

 

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Thanks for the encouragement. I want to get as many people involved in the hobby as possible, and I hope this is an effective method.

Most of the coins I stapled in 2 x 2 holders with the date and name of the coin. Eventually I ran out of those, though, and had to use plain 2 x 2s -- they can do their own investigating. About 5 kids toward the end just got a coin dropped in their bags. Hopefully they don't get lost.

Anyway, it was neat, and I'll probably do it again in the future.

 

Had she used a St. Gauden's to buy a carton of cigs they'd have a real juicy news story...

 

Considering the heavy workload of all police departments out there, to spend any amount of time on this is ludicrous! I think this is a bogus story, just like the home invasion story out of Butte, Montana, committed by 2 Mexicans! :goof:

I never thought we'd have Urban Legends in coin collecting, but I guess nothing's off limits.

Ribbit

Ps: I just checked the source and it appears to be reliable so the story is probably true but I doubt the State Police are seriously looking for her. :goof:

 

Oh, my gosh!

Another Little Old Lady who got ripped off!

Hey, it could have been worse, it could have been a bank teller who robbed her of his "rare coins".

But, then she wouldn't have spent them.

 

My guess is she just had a bunch of old coins stored away somewhere and just decided to spend them because she doesn't know, or care, what they might be worth. Informal coin collections being liquidated at face value is probably the biggest reason why old coins end up in circulation long past their minting (same with paper money, for that matter).

A lot of Indian cents are pretty common... but even the most common should be worth more than a penny. A 1964 half dollar has about $2 worth of silver in it (rough estimate... may be more if silver's on its way up)... someone should tell this lady if she takes her stuff to a coin store she can get more than face value for them, and be able to buy more cigarettes with the proceeds than she'll get just spending them at face value!

I wish I worked at that convenience store...

 

Something to consider. Maybe the "rare" coins were all she had. The economy being what is is, and where it is headed.

 

I would say it is more likely that the "rare" coins were all she found or stole from someone else's house.

 

Maybe *gasp!* she just didn't care. Maybe she didn't feel like grubbing an extra few bucks out of her half dollar (I probably would, lol).

Or maybe she circulated them so others can find them.

Maybe, in a remarkable series of coincidences, received all of them in circulation only the day before.

Maybe she was just using a really old purse.

Maybe she stole them from her daddy's collection to buy candy, but decided to take up smoking instead.

 

Another reason to quit smoking.

 

Maybe she just came out of a 45 year long coma? :goofer:

Maybe she was abducted 45 years ago by aliens and they dropped her off at a Turkey Hill and the first thing she wanted, after getting back, was a smoke. I mean, can't you imagine being a prisioner for 45 years on a alien spacecraft with no smokes?

Or maybe her husband croaked and she finally got the combo to the safe and spent his entire collection at various Turkey Hill stores, buying cigarettes, because he loathed smokers and she did it just to spite him.

Your turn, Ardy!

Ribbit

 

Suppose a USPS mailman (that's what we oldtimers call "letter carriers") notices a letter mailed with two genuine Inverted Jenny stamps while making his rounds. The mailman knows the stamps were worth about $150,000 each prior to being cancelled.

Based on the above logic I suppose the mailman should shrug his shoulders, deliver the letter normally and not mention the wasteful use of the extremely valuable stamps to anyone. And the cops should not investigate to try to find out who used the stamps and whether the stamps may have been stolen. Afterall, if someone wants to use stamps worth $300,000 to mail a letter it's their own business.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny#2006_Find

 

A Suspect ???

 

I guess the police are all upset because someone spent the donut change on cigs.