Pennies Pennies??? PENNIES!!!!!!

[Rascal]

Okay so it's not 'quite' CRH'ing but you may enjoy the tale.

The wife's daughter-in-law's step-mother's mother (with me so far?) died recently, and the step-mother's brother (watch this very carefully) is a bit of a cad. Reportedly he decided the last will and testament thing be darned, HE was going to grab everything he could. Seems among other things there is a safe involved along with the usual household stuff.

Fast forward a bit and the family members are not standing for his fast-fingered/winner-takes-all approach and grabbed things for inventorying and safekeeping before they could all disappear.

The safe (according to the cad) only held "a bag of pennies." How he knew this who knows. Or perhaps he was hoping to steer attention away from it. Any way the daughter-in-law can't finagle the dial so her husband (my wife's son) did the deed. Apparently they had the combination from somewhere/somehow.

The door opens, and the pennies......




(drum roll please)







Turn out to be a pile of SILVER DOLLARS that literally spill out of the now-open safe.


Along with some jewelry the initial appraisal is for around $10K.

Just remember guys, it's still out there. Though I'd personally like to get a gander at those 'pennies.'

Rascal

 

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[myfantasia1]

What a jerk an a thief also

 

[50cent]

Someone probably busted into the safe before, and went through each cent and found a 1943 Copper and a 1944 steel cent, they felt bad so they decided to give some Ag. I would have taken the original bag of cents in this scenario (cent-ario).

 

[billionaire]

And it turns out all of those pennies were indian heads and flying eagles in BU condition that he took to the bank and got exactly face value for them.

 

[Ssirr]

 

[Wickaboag]

Why do people like 1969S pennies?

Wicka

 

[SilverForBrains]

very cool about the find, I hope you get a piece of that. sounds like that jerk was trying to draw attention away from the safe

 

[sagittarius98]

Why do people like 1969S pennies?

Wicka

The double die?

 

[enamel7]

That would be "doubled" die, and that is why.

 

[50cent]

That would be "doubled" die, and that is why.

said the guy.....wearing a bow tie, on the fourth o' July.

 

[Wickaboag]

The double die?

Oh really? Obverse or reverse? I have found a few of them just toss em to the side because I thought it must have just been a tougher date
Wicka

 

[Hunter612]

Oh really? Obverse or reverse? I have found a few of them just toss em to the side because I thought it must have just been a tougher date
Wicka

Obverse.

 

[sagittarius98]

Oh really? Obverse or reverse? I have found a few of them just toss em to the side because I thought it must have just been a tougher date
Wicka

The 1969 S Doubled Die Obverse