Witnessed Silver Attempting to Enter the Supply Chain

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Was standing in line today waiting to cash a ticket from the coin counter when a woman walked in with ~5 quart sized baggies filled with half dollars. I didn't think anything off it as I assumed she was a hunter or maybe her husband was and she was helping out. Either way she and her son starting dumping the halves slowly into the machine and I her silver hitting the reject tray. I walk over (I have my son with me as well) and mention that some of the coins are worth more than $0.50. She's nice and open to help/discussion. Turns out her father passed away several months ago, collected coins and she's just trying to get rid of them (said she has like ~15 more bags of halves plus 'other coins'). My son and I pulled out 48 40%ers and 5 90%ers for the ~$500 worth of halves they had. I showed her the website of a local coin store that lists buy prices for coins, showed them what they're worth and gave her their contact info. I also offered to help sort / identify the remaining coins. She said she'd give me a call in a day or so and we can go through them.

Ultimately I will attempt to purchase the collection, but either way it didn't seem right watching someone pour them into the machine, even though I love finding them when they do. I'll update the thread if/when I hear back from then.

 

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[Argentium]

Your generous spirit is refreshing ! I want to be more like that !! True wealth abides in having a heart like that .

 

[Johncoho]

You are an honorable and honest man. Thank you for the example

 

[Tnmountains]

You are a good man. An honest hunter all the way around.

 

[Dozer D]

Your kindness will be returned ten-fold somewhere sometime in the future. You get an A+

 

[Immy]

Very, very nicely done! A rarely expressed and sorely needed alternate viewpoint to the profiteering side of CRHing.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Nice job!

I have in the past, offered $ to help an heir with a collection, "but, you aren't a liscensed coin dealer", so they sold for much less.

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

good job!

I have never witnessed that but a teller who has sold me some halves has, twice, he ended up paying them 50 cents each, I bought them from him for silver value. Myself I would certainly hope that I would offer silver if they wanted to get rid of them quick or as you did, offer to help. I downloaded the coin app for pricing melt so I can so someone if I ever get that opportunity

 

[LooseChange]

Very appropriate response to the situation.
Nicely done.