kb4iqm
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Sorry I didn't post sooner, the internet was the furthest thing in mind as I was battling the pain of a kidney stone.
I started searching a box of halves late friday night and finished at nearly 1 AM saturday morning. It was skunk #18 in a row for me, but did have some NIFC's. A pair of 2003D, a 2008D, and a 2010P.
As I started in on the CWR dimes I had picked up thursday, I felt a dull ache in my lower back, so I decided to lay down for a bit. By 3 AM I was in so much agony that I decided to drive myself to the hospital. I suspected it was a kidney stone due to imaging results a few months back that turned up a 2mm stone in my left kidney and a 5mm stone in my right kidney. This was confirmed by a CT scan, a 3mm stone was identified midway from kidney to bladder. I managed to get an hour of sleep at the hospital after they loaded me up with a shot of tramadol, the only pain meds they said I could have since I had to drive myself home. After getting back home, loaded up on pain meds, I went back at the CWR dimes, no silver found.
With my favorite teller on vacation, I wasn't going to get called about the widow coming in to dump more of her late hubby's collection. I decided to visit the bank anyways, despite me not feeling well myself. By the time I got there, the other teller had already dumped the widows dimes into the coin machine, so I missed that, but I did manage to get there in time to save a couple of halves. The widow was there, and I could see that she had been crying.
I asked her why she was cashing in her hubbys collection, and she was reluctant to talk about it. She finally told me that she really needed the money for groceries since her income from social security was nearly cut in half after her hubby passed. I told her that I can relate, as exactly the same thing happened to me after my wife passed. The widows benefits that they pay to the surviving spouse comes out of the surviving spouses benefits, dollar for dollar. So they reduce your own benefits by exactly the same amount as they pay you from your deceased spouses benefits.
I offered her $10 each for the two halves she was about to cash in and she perked up a bit and smiled. I handed her a $20 bill. One half was a 1957 Ben and the other a 1964 Ken. I told her that I was a coin collector and I offered to pay her more for his coins than the bank would cash them in for. I don't know if she'll call, as she had seemed to be emotionally distraught about the whole prospect of cashing in his coins. I'm just hoping that she does, rather than dumping them for face value at the bank like she's been doing.
I know what some of you will say, it was counter-productive on my part to do this, but I've felt really bad about knowing that she's been only getting face value for what she's been cashing in.
Bob
I started searching a box of halves late friday night and finished at nearly 1 AM saturday morning. It was skunk #18 in a row for me, but did have some NIFC's. A pair of 2003D, a 2008D, and a 2010P.
As I started in on the CWR dimes I had picked up thursday, I felt a dull ache in my lower back, so I decided to lay down for a bit. By 3 AM I was in so much agony that I decided to drive myself to the hospital. I suspected it was a kidney stone due to imaging results a few months back that turned up a 2mm stone in my left kidney and a 5mm stone in my right kidney. This was confirmed by a CT scan, a 3mm stone was identified midway from kidney to bladder. I managed to get an hour of sleep at the hospital after they loaded me up with a shot of tramadol, the only pain meds they said I could have since I had to drive myself home. After getting back home, loaded up on pain meds, I went back at the CWR dimes, no silver found.
With my favorite teller on vacation, I wasn't going to get called about the widow coming in to dump more of her late hubby's collection. I decided to visit the bank anyways, despite me not feeling well myself. By the time I got there, the other teller had already dumped the widows dimes into the coin machine, so I missed that, but I did manage to get there in time to save a couple of halves. The widow was there, and I could see that she had been crying.
I asked her why she was cashing in her hubbys collection, and she was reluctant to talk about it. She finally told me that she really needed the money for groceries since her income from social security was nearly cut in half after her hubby passed. I told her that I can relate, as exactly the same thing happened to me after my wife passed. The widows benefits that they pay to the surviving spouse comes out of the surviving spouses benefits, dollar for dollar. So they reduce your own benefits by exactly the same amount as they pay you from your deceased spouses benefits.
I offered her $10 each for the two halves she was about to cash in and she perked up a bit and smiled. I handed her a $20 bill. One half was a 1957 Ben and the other a 1964 Ken. I told her that I was a coin collector and I offered to pay her more for his coins than the bank would cash them in for. I don't know if she'll call, as she had seemed to be emotionally distraught about the whole prospect of cashing in his coins. I'm just hoping that she does, rather than dumping them for face value at the bank like she's been doing.
I know what some of you will say, it was counter-productive on my part to do this, but I've felt really bad about knowing that she's been only getting face value for what she's been cashing in.
Bob
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