Today I had to take my Mother in Law to Krogers to the customer service desk. While waiting there for her I was looking at one of those charity containers and noticed a 1952 quarter. Asked the clerk if she had a key, because I'd like to exchange a new quarter for that 1952 quarter. She was real nice and unlocked it. I gave her a dollar donation and she gave me the quarter. Woo Hoo, a silver quarter worth 3.55 and I didn't have to hunt too hard for it. Just keep your eyes open, folks and don't be afraid to ask!
1952 Silver Quarter
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sandgroper
Elite Member
That's one way to get silver!
Mud-puppy
Forum Supporter
Outstanding! Good on ya for asking and getting it! Never heard of such a thing before! This is a new one on me!
stinger
Elite Member
So you ripped off $2.55 from charity Nice
NO I DIDN'T. The silver quarter would have been treated as a regular quarter just like the person who dropped it in there. I don't feel I did anything wrong. Are you thinking I should have given 3.55? I didn't even know for sure what it was worth till looking it up on the internet at home. I suppose I could go back there and drop in 2.55 but I'm not going to. I gave another dollar on the way out to the Salvation Army Bell ringer and I give every time I pass by. I also have people and animals that I help. How about you?
Leave-No-Coins-Behind
Forum Supporter
Good eye...and recovery! Congrats!
stinger
Elite Member
I think you know it was worth more than a dollar and you took advantage of it
Beyonder123
Full Member
Do you honestly think that someone from the charity would go through the trouble to sell the coin and donate the extra $1.75 to charity? The coins all would have been dumped into a coin counter and deposited into a bank account. Where later some other guy or coin roll hunter would have found it.
Stiffwrists
Elite Member
I was going to respond to this, but realized I don't want to get involved. Not worth the time.
Good eye Pplinker! My son just got a silver quarter back from his change at the school book fair. Fun!
MrNovice
Forum Supporter
Look at it this way...eventually that quarter like most silver will ultimately be cashed in, sold and melted. What was once only worth 25 cents, has now become $3 and some change, so...by catching the current value correction, our friend Mrs. PPlinker here is just helping correct the ever looming problem of yearly inflation by returning something to it's original value before it spirals out of control and makes the rest of our printing press fiat money worthless!
Congratz Mrs. P! Nice eye you got there!
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dirt dick
Elite Member
I find myself eyeballing those charity donation jars, and those take a penny trays too...... good eye,
and good for you to give back , more than what it was,
yes it would have been treated as any other quarter.
and good for you to give back , more than what it was,
yes it would have been treated as any other quarter.
metaladdict
Elite Member
hawgdawg
Forum Supporter
And you would have replaced it with 3.55 or an even 3.50 or 3.75 even money ?
Or you've just got a sarcastic type of humor , like me.
Either way way, nice find , nice save , and they made out better than they would have with the old '52 quater
Waveoff
Elite Member
Good catch on the silver quarter!
This supposedly "friendly" forum has taken a not-so-friendly turn lately thanks to a handful of certain folks. Such a shame...
This supposedly "friendly" forum has taken a not-so-friendly turn lately thanks to a handful of certain folks. Such a shame...
Silversmith45
Elite Member
If who ever collected the money for the charity knew what a silver quarter was, I doubt if it would have ended up going to the charity anyway.
stinger
Elite Member
Why do you think that? there's honest people in the world Not ever one thinks the way you do
Mud-puppy
Forum Supporter
I'd a taken that Silver Q and replaced it with a handful of rotten Coinstar Reject zincs! Hey, are we Pirates or what?
amc rulz
Forum Supporter
Now that's a nice chunk 'o silver!
Silversmith45
Elite Member
Replacing a silver quarter with another wouldn't be dishonest when the original one would only be valued as a quarter anyway. I believe that anyone knowing silver coins would do so and that doesn't make them dishonest.
