A good omen or lucky sign for the approaching season

J. Overland

J. Overland

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Today on my way home from work I stopped in at the post office and inquired as to if they had any duck stamps. The clerk said she thought they did, and went in the back to check. While she was looking, I noticed an old quarter sitting on the register.

When she returned with the two duck stamps I wanted and rang me up, I asked if it was a silver quarter. She said she didn't know. I asked what the date on it was. She checked and said 1938. I said that's silver, and worth a lot more than a quarter. She said "I guess so," in a very uninterested manner. I asked her if I could trade her another quarter for it. Again, her answer was "I guess." I handed her a quarter, and added an additional quarter to the take a penny/leave a penny jar.

This is the first silver quarter I've ever come across. That has to be a good sign for the approaching season. Perhaps I'll carry it afield with me this year.

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Well, it does look like it has been around the block a time or two. Nice find. Maybe your duck season will end up with a silver lining to it. I hope so for you.
 


I hope it brings you Good Luck ya did good.

Silver coins have a very good feel about them, a tactile quality lacking in todays coins.

There are still certain jobs where one comes across silver coins, and rare folding money. Working in a liquor store is one of those jobs. If the coins are rolled they are heavier, and the roll shorter than copper clad coins. When ya handle lots of money one notices such things if one is knowledgeable. Sometimes purchases are made with old coin collections that become new coin collections. Not many folks care about such things today they hold history in there hands and don't even realize it.

Old coins and folding money are like old guns. Ya wonder where they have been and what they witnessed over such a long "life".


my 2 cents[wink]
 
A great find and I hope you'll see a good upcoming season.

Vince describes seeing old coins working in a liquor store. I remember getting a buffalo nickel as change in a bar once when I was around 20. I remember the bartender giving me the change, me seeing something different, the bartender recognizing something good might have just passed by her, and asking if that was a coin she just gave me. I said yes it was. I loved that thing, and just because it was old and out of circulation and a little tiny piece of Americana. I remember I squirreled it away so I wouldn't lose it. Went off to college, looked for it years later. I hid it so well I never found it.
 
I have some silver certificates from the 1930's and buffalo coinage as a result of working as a cashier in a grocery store. The different color of the ink is what tipped me off on the silver certificates.

Rick
 

How many of us (especially Geezers) look at the dates on coins? Recall that year and what we did at that time in our lives. Like holding a bit of time in yer hands. Sometime they can jar memories loose stored deep.

I have very fond memories of the 1776-1976 quarters the only copper clad ones that I still put aside.
 
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