Congrats Mike on the oldies and the silver....Yes, seeing a glint of silver when digging a hole really makes a detectorist's day! I have been going through some of my brother's things, as I had never done it....even after he died, so had fun...I don't know what he found digging from those he bought as collectibles but your finds are just as good or better than his! He has one huge zip pouch that he has it seems like tons of foreign coins and looks like even a few Maudi Gras tokens, as they are huge! Just too many to go through and see what all is in this zip bag which is stuffed full right now, but I will slowly go through the coins, tokens and etc. and make a list of them! He also has a small plastic bag of wheat pennies....Hope I find a 1914-D? among them! LOL! He packed them away at the same time I was packing a lot of my stuff, when we thought we were going to move to Cuba, MO, in the house I had bought but after one night in the house and going back to St. Louis, MO, he became more ill and needed to see the dr too often, so we didn't move into it like we had planned! That was in Nov 2008 and then he passed away Aug 12, 2009, as most of you know while in Hospice Care with PAH an incurable disease!
It was difficult to take and I still miss him, so I am just now going through the lock boxes that I stored away in other boxes which I took with me from St. Louis to my sister's place in Newburg, MO. Didn't want to let them be hauled to storage by the moving company, but they did move some of my stuff that I found and collected, so I do not know if I still have most of it or maybe it was stolen.....don't know because ppl can't be trusted even moving companies! I decided after feeling some better and my legs are not so sore and stiff, to start seeing what he had and I was surprised for he has quite a collection of Morgan Mint and other Mint collectibles, but I believe they took advantage of him from what I see the poor condition of most of the mint sets! He could have done better by ordering from the US Mint and not depended on other mints to sell him the US minted coins....except for the Silver Mint Sets, they are US Mint but poorly picked over! I can see why my brother never had much money and was always broke! lol.....too bad he didn't collect the really good collectibles! SAD!!
Well, I found coins today of various sizes, dates and metals so I guess, you can say I had a good day, today, finding hidden coins! Had to find the keys to open the metal boxes, too! SMILE! God Bless and Happy Hunting everyone!
Ma
PS I sold the Cuba, MO home in 2010 and now I have a Duplex in Cuba, MO that I purchased in 2014, after moving from St. Louis, MO...I was only with my sister for a short time! Wish she would sell her place and move nearer to me, so we could see each other more often and help one another, too! Ma
