still cant believe my eyes

azlegends · Jul 19, 2011

Recently I just asked an employee I know down at the local grocery store to keep an eye out for coins. Well my buddy just came by and dropped off 34 40% halves, 1 90% half, and 12 silver quarter including a standing liberty that's too worn to date.

apush · Jul 19, 2011

Wow! Did you purchase them at face? Or, did you up the ante?

apush :read2:

azlegends · Jul 19, 2011

I got them all at face. This is my first standing liberty, and even though its only worth the silver, im still super excited lol.

TheRockDoc · Jul 19, 2011

Bigheed said:
no offense but this guy is an idiot and you're not that great of a friend if you bought them at face

I agree with one, and disagree with the other, the guy is definately an idiot for just handing them to you.... But that doesnt make the recipiant a bad friend for taking them at face value. You never know what someones intentions are, or what is important to them... I can guarantee you that if someone wanted to dump a small pile of silver in my lap for next to nothing, I would hug them, kiss them, ask them if they are sure they dont want more for it.... If that was the end result, I would feel GREAT about the situation... Nobody is getting lied to, nobody is being misled. I certainly dont feel bad when the bank sells one to me for face value, and I damn sure wouldnt say.... Oh since this is worth more than .50 cents, let me give you more than .50 cents for it... Just my opinion. Nice score, I never thought about having somebody in retail look out for silver for me... It is probably a good idea though.

azlegends · Jul 19, 2011

I don't understand why all the negativity. My friend is certainly no idiot, as I have helped him with hobbies plenty in the past. Being a good friend is more than paying someone or expecting to be paid. If I found something a friend of mine liked and asked me to look for, I don't need a profit off that.

cheese · Jul 19, 2011

Agreed... a friend would bring them to you for face, and a friend would give him face for it. Friends exchange favors all the time, helping each other when needed, doing things for each other, and not keeping tabs on who owes whom. If I buy something for dirt cheap and a friend wants it, he can generally have it for what I paid for it (assuming I'm willing to let it go). He'd do the same for me too. This is why it's hard to find a good friend nowadays. Too many people out for their own interests.

TheRockDoc · Jul 20, 2011

azlegends said:
I don't understand why all the negativity. My friend is certainly no idiot, as I have helped him with hobbies plenty in the past. Being a good friend is more than paying someone or expecting to be paid. If I found something a friend of mine liked and asked me to look for, I don't need a profit off that.

Hey bro, good find, and I didnt mean that your friend is an idiot, (even though I said that). Sometimes we all need to back up and remind ourselves that not everyone out there are "freaks" about silver like most of us, it definately doesnt make him an idiot. I apologize, I think it is way cool that he did that for you. I wish I had a friend like that. I also appreciate your idea of talking to cashiers about keeping an eye out. Good on ya.

RP4L · Jul 20, 2011

TheRockDoc said:
Sometimes we all need to back up and remind ourselves that not everyone out there are "freaks" about silver like most of us

They should be silver freaks! Paper is trash and silver is money

Personally, I would have tried to tell my friend my whole gold/silver-is-money mantra first, lol. Most of my friends and family used to think I was crazy, but inflation helped them come around :<

Yagershots · Jul 20, 2011

cheese said:
Agreed... a friend would bring them to you for face, and a friend would give him face for it. Friends exchange favors all the time, helping each other when needed, doing things for each other, and not keeping tabs on who owes whom. If I buy something for dirt cheap and a friend wants it, he can generally have it for what I paid for it (assuming I'm willing to let it go). He'd do the same for me too. This is why it's hard to find a good friend nowadays. Too many people out for their own interests.

Very True

Gilmore Happy · Jul 20, 2011

azlegends said:
I don't understand why all the negativity. My friend is certainly no idiot, as I have helped him with hobbies plenty in the past. Being a good friend is more than paying someone or expecting to be paid. If I found something a friend of mine liked and asked me to look for, I don't need a profit off that.

Agreed, I showed a couple of guys I work with my stash of dimes without mentioning CRH or how I got them, and they were slamming me on, "you can't eat it", you cant buy stuff at Walmart for the "value", the only people that will buy it are coin collectors, blah blah. So I said, you can't buy stuff at Walmart with a Walmart Stock certificate either and try to explain a case.

It was a futile argument, and I saw that they were in the dark, but my point is that, I have learned most people don't care about silver or junk silver coins. That's just a fact. They think the inflation bunny will deliver them anti-inflation eggs filled with Hershey's kisses and a free round of golf.

Yes, it made me mad, becuase I hate to see ignorance, especially friends and family. But hey, nice to have people in your life that will give you silver at FV. Argghhhhh :icon_pirat:

GH

captainfwiffo · Jul 20, 2011

BTW: A dateless SLQ can be worth more than melt. A 1916 can be identified without a date through careful examination, and that coin is worth thousands.

jim4silver · Jul 20, 2011

Bigheed said:
I do my favors for my friends and family all the time, but it doesn't mean I just hand over the 1953 Mickey Mantle I found in my grandma's attic just because my friend is a card collector.

Likewise if one of my friends gave me $293.92 (at todays melt for 34 40%, 1 90%, and 12 quarters as you said) I wouldnt just say ahh gee thanks here is $20.50. At least pay what the pawn shop would pay or some cash and a few cases of beer?

If my initial response was a bit harsh I apologize for that, but I still think your friend at the grocery store is getting the short end of the stick. Ultimately that silver is just going to go to the refiner and be $ in your pocket.

Sooner or later friend will find out how much said silver coins are worth and will ask himself "why give them away for face?". Maybe a one time give away to a good friend can happen, but you really think this friend is just going to keep giving away silver coins at face and receive nothing in return? I don't think so, unless friend is independently wealthy. But if he is working in a grocery store as a clerk he can't be making too much $$$$. Nobody is that altruistic. As they say "there is no such thing as a free lunch".

I don't blame the OP for taking them at face value though. But I doubt that is going to happen too much longer.

Jim

azlegends · Jul 20, 2011

jim4silver said:
Bigheed said:

I do my favors for my friends and family all the time, but it doesn't mean I just hand over the 1953 Mickey Mantle I found in my grandma's attic just because my friend is a card collector.

Likewise if one of my friends gave me $293.92 (at todays melt for 34 40%, 1 90%, and 12 quarters as you said) I wouldnt just say ahh gee thanks here is $20.50. At least pay what the pawn shop would pay or some cash and a few cases of beer?

If my initial response was a bit harsh I apologize for that, but I still think your friend at the grocery store is getting the short end of the stick. Ultimately that silver is just going to go to the refiner and be $ in your pocket.

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Sooner or later friend will find out how much said silver coins are worth and will ask himself "why give them away for face?". Maybe a one time give away to a good friend can happen, but you really think this friend is just going to keep giving away silver coins at face and receive nothing in return? I don't think so, unless friend is independently wealthy. But if he is working in a grocery store as a clerk he can't be making too much $$$$. Nobody is that altruistic. As they say "there is no such thing as a free lunch".

I don't blame the OP for taking them at face value though. But I doubt that is going to happen too much longer.

Jim

Actually this friend of mine is well aware of the value of silver. As far as him not making much money working at a grocery store, he's actually the manager of the store and makes plenty enough to spare some silver for a friend who has spared plenty for him. Some of you people might want to evaluate where money and cry stand on your list of priorities. If a friend is not worth more than a few coins, he's not really a friends. Thanks for the comments though.

TheRockDoc · Jul 20, 2011

I disagree with the comment that "there is no such thing as a free lunch" That is the silliest thing i have ever heard. All I gotta do is ask, and whether it is finding some silver at face value (which is a free lunch as they say IMO), getting paid more for a job, or literally a "free lunch" I truly believe that all you gotta do is ask. It happens around me all the time in fact, in my life and others around me. What I really find interesting though, is that if you dont feel like you deserve a "free lunch" you will never expect it, or ask for it. Therefore, you will never recieve it, and it will be nonexistant for you. Just yesterday I went back to feb. on this forum and read a post where RileyBoy was eating lunch and he saw a squirrel. The squirrel looked hungry, so he gave this squirrel a "free lunch". He also made a comment about how maybe his kindness will maybe be rewarded by some "free lunch" (silver) coming his way..... Since he helped out this squirrel. I dont remember what exactly the find was a day or two later, but I will die a happy CRH'er if I manage to find ONE find like that from CRH... Free lunches all around us all the time.

I also need to chime in on the whole "you cant eat it, you cant blah blah blah whatever." I absolutely love when this comes up. It is amazing that there is anyone out there with that type of ignorance. The first question I usually come back with is.. "so, if you had a pocket full of paper money, and you needed to eat, but your baker was out of bread, could you eat it?" Will it keep you warm?, does it give you shelter? When push comes to shove, I would damn sure rather be left with nothing but a pocket full of "worthless, unedible, cold hard silver, than a pocket full of paper money. Although, one thing I would do with money, that I would never do with silver is use it ass toilet paper. So i guess they got us there.

ivan salis · Jul 20, 2011

your freind is looking out for you --doing you a great favor -- I'm sure you have also done favors as well for him in the past and will wind up doing some in the future

-good freinds do look out for one another *

some folks sadly have no or very few "real" freinds as they are "its all about what others can do for me "--they are the type of folks that see certain road signs * and think the roads been named after em * "one way only"

jim4silver · Jul 20, 2011

TheRockDoc said:
I disagree with the comment that "there is no such thing as a free lunch" That is the silliest thing i have ever heard. All I gotta do is ask, and whether it is finding some silver at face value (which is a free lunch as they say IMO), getting paid more for a job, or literally a "free lunch" I truly believe that all you gotta do is ask. It happens around me all the time in fact, in my life and others around me. What I really find interesting though, is that if you dont feel like you deserve a "free lunch" you will never expect it, or ask for it. Therefore, you will never recieve it, and it will be nonexistant for you.

I wasn't trying to get into a metaphysical/ power of attraction type debate, in that I agree with you on the basis for which you are responding. What I meant by what I said is that sooner or later a person in this situation will catch on and want fair reimbursement-which is completely appropriate and deserved I believe. I did not state that well apparently.

azlegends said:
If a friend is not worth more than a few coins, he's not really a friends. Thanks for the comments though.

Fair enough AZ. On that note why don't you then give all the coins your friend finds for you to a more needy friend of yours. Surely in this economy you know someone who could use a few extra bucks, and since you are getting the coins at face value, you would not be out much and would be doing a great favor for some other friend of yours.

Like I said before, if a friend decides to give a stash of coins at face value to another friend one time that is great and I am sure happens all the time. But to have someone be your "coin lookout" and always give you their finds for face value when they could be getting something out of it seems to be asking a bit too much based on the facts as you stated. Maybe you cut his lawn every week or something so it evens out, I don't know. I am just going by what you posted and how it seems to not comport with what generally takes place in the world. But if your friend decides to do that for you on a regular basis, I say bravo.

Jim

Hi Ho Silver! · Jul 20, 2011

Great buddy!

cheese · Jul 20, 2011

Geez, they're friends. I doubt it's a one sided relationship or the friendship wouldn't exist, at least not for long. I imagine one of the two getting some silver coins for face value isn't the only exchange that ever occurred between the two of them.

I recently gave my friend a $1000 kawasaki engine and then helped him put it in and gave him some needed hardware. I must be a dummy. I don't even expect anything in return.