Surprise bag o' loot!!

[Johnny Cache]

I was at a large estate auction a few weeks ago. Long story short, the relative in charge of the auction told me they found piles of old coins worth $38,000!! He mentioned that there were some coins that the appraiser wasn't interested in, and I could look them over. He never called me, so I thought he forgot and flew home. Today my father in law called me and said that the guy dropped off a bag of coins, I can have them, he only wants me to give a small donation to his local 2013 town reunion comittee (he grew up in a town close to my town). He even drew me a map of where the circus and rodeo used to set up back circa 1900!

A lot of the coins are fairly new, but there are some oldies too. The 1928 sixpence is silver I think (gotta do some research). There are 14 1968 and 1969 'silver' dollars (no silver content), and a bunch of loonies and toonies. Face value of the lot is over 57 dollars!

What a nice surprise this morning! I will be making a donation, and I can't wait for spring to follow up on the treasure map.

 

[leslie]

Any sixpence, shilling, two shilling (Florin), half crown, minted before 1947 are silver coins,

after 1947 the coins were made of base metal, the earlier Victorian coin had a higher

silver content,hope this helps Mike.

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Xmas came early for you.
Great that they remembered to pass these on.
I wonder how many silvers he kept ?

 

[William-NM]

Wow, what a nice surprise! I've had some good days, but never had the coins knock on the front door!

 

[deepseeker442]

wow nice.