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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BUncirculated, post: 1178666, member: 29581&quot;]I was helping an old fellow sort through his attic and help him get rid of the stuff that was no good. His wife had passed a few weeks before, and she was well known in our town and always willing to help those less fortunate. She went out of her way every year to make sure that children from low income households had winter hats and mittens to keep warm, she even would take a box of canned goods and leave them on the door step of elderly. A real pillar of the community. So much so, the entire town turned out for her funeral. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, as we were going through boxes and boxes of stuff in their attic, we came across a box of first edition cook books. Since the husband had his meals delivered by MOW, he said that I could take that box and keep it. After several hours of sorting, and disposing of the junk, he took me out for fish fry dinner, and after leaving the restaurant I went home with my box. </p><p><br /></p><p>After showering, I decided to go through the box and kind of skim through the books and see some of the old recipes from back in the day. On the very bottom of the box, I found a small container of CC Morgans. Knowing the value of these I took the container back to the guy the next day and told him that I found these silver dollars in the bottom of the box and brought them back to him as I was sure he didn&#039;t know they were in there and more likely was not intending on giving them away.</p><p><br /></p><p>He told me that his wife liked holding onto old things passed down to her from her father and those silver dollars her father collected when he went to Nevada on business. </p><p><br /></p><p>I told him these would be quite valuable because of the mint mark, as well as they are a little over 3/4s of an ounce of pure silver. He told me that I could go ahead and keep them as he has rolls of them in a safe deposit box at the bank. </p><p><br /></p><p>Four months later, he died of pneumonia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not long after his passing, I received a letter from an attorney requesting my presence as he had something important to discuss with me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Seems this guy had no living relatives, and as a result, he left me the rolls of silver dollars from the safety deposit box. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of them were worth melt, back then was around $8 an oz., but there were some that were uncirculated but common dates. There were 5 rolls of Morgans, and 3 rolls of Peace dollars. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was 17.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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