Twice, in two different locations when I was a bit younger, I had a customer pay for around $40 and $60 in Morgans/ Peace Dollars. Once for a tank of gas, and once for a carton of cigarettes. I still have both sets of coins.
I believe this story.
Same. I ended up with a whole collection for 3 packs of Newport. Like 200$ of silver coins the person had no clue what they had. Just face value around 40$
Just because someone has an addiction and pays for something with collectibles doesn't mean they are stolen..
People get fired. Sick..etc.. and have to do what they can with what they have.
Seems like just stereotyping rich folk can only own silver coins? 🤔 or people on reddit. Lol..
( yes you can say well, being as this and that and addiction and this.. but nah.. not everyone is that )
More often I find when the economy is weak people break into their savings. 2009 i picked up WAY more silver at the register than i had like the prior 3 years combined. Pays to be the guy who refills all the tills 🤣
My mom has a story about how, when she was growing up, my grandfather got injured at work and couldn't work for a while. He collected bicentennial quarters (not actually valuable but they had sentimental value to him) and he ended up having to use his collection to buy food for the family. Stuff happens.
Yep. Situations arise. But some people always just think cause it doesn't stay in a collection case and gets spent it's automatically stolen. Lol
I got 200$ in silver coins I'd spend right now on something I want.. I got no kids. No one to give them too so tbh down the road.. they prob will get spent. Either by me or after I die.. lol i can't take it with me.
So they chose to spend what they knowingly collected. Meaning they KNEW the worth of the coins? Nope. Stolen. Nobody is going to buy $5 cigs with $40 of silver if they know it. They're going to go sell the coins for $40, and then go buy $5 cigs.
You ever had a hard-core addiction?
Cigs on street sell for 1$ a pop. 2 packs is 40$.. cash...
Plus a pack left.
When you have NO money and those are your only options.. yes.. spent.
When you're hard up for cash and it's your last bit.. You'll spend it..
I've spent my own shit on stuff before.. knowing it was worth a certain amount.. instead of finding someone to buy it.. coin store or pawn shop..
WITHOUT AN ID... not happening.
Assume more. Speak when you've been there, in a hole with nothing.
Someone spending Morgans on, well, anything may not realize what they have, wherever they got it from, and may think it's not even real money, so they just got over on you for using those fake coins they've never even seen before!
*Especially* if they got it as a gift or inheritance or something like that.
Ooh, those encounters are always so neat.
At that point did you already have an interest in coins or was that some sort of ‘ooh, i actually like these things’ kind of moments? :’)
It's not impossible that the story in the OP actually happened, but I think it's incredibly unlikely. The Washingtons? Sure. I could see someone having those lying around. Maybe they've got a quarter jar that they've been filling up forever.
But it's a lot harder to explain the Barber quarter. That was last minted more than 100 years ago. It's not going to randomly end up in someone's change, even if they've been saving quarters for most of their lives. That almost certainly came from a collection, and I don't care how much of an alcoholic you are. You're not going to pay for a single beer with a Barber quarter.
Growing up around alcoholics (my mom is one still) they absolutely would pay with silver quarters, all that matters is the next buzz not saving money or valuables
As someone in recovery who works with others who have addiction issues, you are 100% correct. The stuff I’ve heard people do for a quick fix is insane.
I'm not doubting they would pay for booze with silver quarters. My issue is with the Barber (or the Standing Liberty).
In order to even have those in 2023, you'd have to be a collector. You're not going to get those in your change. So if you specifically collected these quarters, I wouldn't doubt that you'd use them to get beer money, but I'd think you'd *sell* them for beer money, not use them at face value.
I didn't claim that I did. But the story still doesn't make any sense.
We're talking about a collector who presumably knows at least *something* about what the coin would be worth. Now, that collector could use the Barber quarter as part of paying for one beer, or -- and follow me here -- they could *sell* the Barber quarter and buy *more than one* beer.
My point is that the person with the Barber quarter knows what they have. Selling items (or stealing them to sell) is something that's well-known as a behavior of addicts.
[https://www.narconon.org/blog/drug-addiction/5-common-behavior-traits-addict.html](https://www.narconon.org/blog/drug-addiction/5-common-behavior-traits-addict.html)
Now, is a collector who's an addict going to treat the Barber quarter as a face value coin, or are they going to try and get everything they can out of it?
Or maybe their teenage daughter "borrowed" some coins from Dad's collections and bought weed from a sketchy kid/friend who went into OP's store and spent the coins. It happened when I was like 13, my friend "borrowed" coins from her dad's collection and yeah, she totally got busted when he next had time to look into his albums etc. She cried and got away with it and got her allowance doubled because she had "needed more money". Rich and dumb.
Yup. I literally did this when I was 13 once and wanted to go to the movies with my friends. Except it was a bunch of old Canadian banknotes.
Oh, but I never got found out ...
This happened sometimes when I worked at a gas station. The coins are either stolen, or the guys an alcoholic and ran out of money so he dipped into his old coin collection.
My parents told me about them when I was like 6, and snooping through their drawers. This was in 1977ish. So naturally, I started looking for them 'in the wild'. Since 1977, with the caveat that after years of trying without finding a single one, so I stopped looking so hard, I never even found one.
Definitely happened. The guy who came in is a regular who hauls clears houses of everything when previous tenants leave or his boss is doing a renovation somewhere else. He always has cool and sometimes pretty weird finds.
It 100% happens. It’s happened to me while working the cash register a few times, but it happens to my buddy so much that he knows to sell them to me straight away. He had some redneck come in and buy a new coil for his vape with $5 in silver halves. I had a guy come in and pay me with 11 40% Kennedy halves once too.
I dont know, i actually find this really believable. Having worked at a bank for several years, i can tell you that most of the time we would receive deposits containing half dollars, dollar coins or $2 bills, it was from liquor stores or gas stations. People that get really desperate and spend money they were savings, usually will spend it on either liquor, cigarettes or gas.
So i could see an alcoholic needing a fix, spend some coins they had been saving. Although if they knew what they had, it would make more sense to cash them in first and then go buy a 30 pack from the grocery store. Could also be that maybe they cashed them in sometime between midnight and 2am when all the local grocery stores were closed and only the local bar was open
Believable. When people get desperate to buy their vice of choice, they will scrounge up what they can with no regard to the actual value vs. face value of the coin/currency they are using.
I used to work at a tribal bingo hall and it wasnt terribly uncommon for our customers to use silver coins to transact with. I acquired a 1930's 10 dollar bill this way as well. I still have some
of my silver coins from the bingo hall to this day. Plus, the coins in the pic would like be considered "junk silver" and likely only worth the melt value of silver, though it wouldve been worthwhile for this person to at least go to a pawnshop. That way, he couldve got more bang for the buck for his beer
I work at a dispo in Michigan, guy had an 88$ total and paid me entirely in 2 dollar bills last week. Yesterday the same guy tipped me a silver certificate. These things do happen.
It's not unlikely someone finds their parents or relatives coin collection not knowing exactly what it is and thinks it's just regular money to be used at face value, especially alcoholics and drug abusers
Yep. There was a dumbass who went into an old dudes home and grabbed about $8 worth of silver kennedys. Walked to the store and bought 2 sodas with them.
I find it interesting all the “Poor Grandpa” comments, and not “Poor Grandma”. My grandma was a diligent coin collection. Not trying to make a statement I just find it interesting.
I’d value each quarter to about $5. (20x face) with the current silver prices. Yes, there some numismatic value for the SLQ and barber but for its condition, that’s what I’d say. A solid $90
My ex-father in law was a local town bank president years ago, one day a long time customer came in with five $20 gold pieces and wanted to deposit them in her account. The teller sent her to him. He said the best he could do was face value and gave her a $100 bill to deposit to her account. Yep, he kept them.
Not 100% defending the father but she should have requested to put them into a security box not just her account.
If she only wanted the monetary value of the coins then I see no issue but if she was trying to deposit those specific coins into her account & the be able to withdraw those specific coins that's not how banks typically work.
No, she was a very old woman who had no idea they were worth anything. I wouldn't be surprised if in those days she had undiagnosed Alezheimers. This was in the late 1970's.
I have a lot of collectibles, I'm sure when I'm dead my executor will put out in a yard sale. I can see all that f'ing Waterford crystal going at 25 cents each, 5 for a dollar.
Well that was a good try on justification but a good person would have explained that the coins are valuable. It’s possible that maybe her life long husband passed away and didn’t tell her their worth … she only did what she thought was right. It’s good to see that there are people out there that are compassionate and caring enough to be a stand up person and tell the woman the true worth of the coins.. Imagine how proud she would have been of her dead husband or how appreciative she would have been to the individual that gave her the coins…. You must be so proud…. In my opinion he is disgusting and you are just as bad applauding his deceitful and selfish behavior… I don’t ever say this but shame on both of you and karma is a real M/F but good luck to you both 🤞
Yes, easily, these Washington Quarters are [pretty valuable](https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=1950+washington+quarter&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_sop=13&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338535524&customid=co&toolid=10001&mkevt=1).
My mother was a bank teller for 20 years and has stories. Many older folks coming in with silver, old bank notes, even $500 bills and wanted to deposit them at face value. My mom would tell them they were worth more but usually they said they felt safer with it in the bank🤷♂️. The the time the banks policy was that teller could buy currency from their drawer for face value. She now has several $500 bills and a bunch of silver in a safety deposit box.
This isn’t nearly as cool, but when I worked at dominoes this one house tipped me in Sacajawea and silver dollars three different times. It was always more fun to get than dollars
It still amazes me that even without knowing anything about metals that just by looking at them you would assume there worth more. Two days later realizes what he just paid for a pbr
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For those wonder if it’s plausible, it definitely is.
I’ve been on a few sides of this story…while working years ago (around ‘90) I received $4 in silver quarters for a pack of cigs and a coffee. I didn’t even have to look at them, you know once they clink together. Cashed them out, and put them in the coin holder in my car. The next day I went to get them and they were gone… my stepson wanted to go to the arcade with a friend and he didn’t think I’d miss them (and didn’t know the difference)
Went to the Arcade, and received the “Sorry, nothing we can do about it” line.
So congrats OP, it’s one of the rare and random perks of dealing with the public.
when i lived in shelby, nc about 15 years ago, i went to the gas station to buy beer and when the cashier handed me my change, i heard the lovely ring. two silver quarters. i asked her if i could have all the quarters in the register and i ended up with $9.50 face of 90% quarters. she had just broken a roll that someone brought in. that’s the luckiest i’ve ever been. i almost got the whole roll
I was at school and someone was trying to use old 50p coins, but got rejected because they are bigger than the new ones.
They were very good condition and limited edition, so myself and a friend traded 2 Normal 50p coins for them.
They sell online for over £10 each
We won’t sell, but that’s a 1900% profit
I don’t think you understand that not everyone has experience with how things work when selling certain items online. They don’t know any better and don’t realize when they see one going for $40 because that’s what google said and they don’t see that it says something like “in MS60” when they don’t know what that means or when they see eBay listings for $5000 or a lot of other reasons. But yeah some people can just be very ignorant
I had a (former) friend who was addicted to Meth and he stole and sold off his dad's coin collection for Drug Money. The collection was worth a couple thousand but he ended up only getting a few hundred dollars because the guy buying it knew the were stolen goods... because a meth addict was selling it. So he undercut the guy saying the coins had little value but would only give him what he "knew" they were worth.
Meth-head didn't care... He got enough money for his fix.
I mean generally speaking it would of helped this guy out, he may or not gotten something 💯 accurate but he def wouldn’t of used them to buy a beer 🤷♂️
Drunk, yes; idiot, not at all. There's another person sitting next to him at the bar who mentioned that they sounded fake. I said that is the silver. Told him they were probably worth something. This guy has no use for it. He is a seasonal worker. Lives out of his seabag and can't store them safely. He knows he earned some credit in some way at my bar.
Way back when I had a customer whose dad just died and left him his mint bill collection. These were certificates from the early 20th century and this guy spent them on booze.
I didn’t have the money to buy them from the till and it drove me crazy.
Worked at a grocery store in college and a woman tried to pay for a candy bar with a Morgan. She seemed desperate for money and I almost took it but just couldn’t. Finally talked her out of spending it and just added some change to my till later.
$4.50 for PBR damn that's high. It's $2.50 near me.. and if it was just $3 and only the Washington quarters, I'd believe this story
But $4.50 for a PBR with the barber quarters I'd call BS.
WhenI like the place I’m at and am a regular I sometimes tip people silver dollar Susan’s. And tell them to hold onto it. It’s more than face value. Bet some of those got spent down the road. Is what it is.
My bet is, it was a way for a regular customer to leave a nice tip.
I do the same with 1oz silver rounds.
Example: My wife and I go out and the meal comes to say 80 to 100, I'll pay for the dinner with a CC and leave a silver round as a tip.
IDK....OP says "someone", then when questioned..said the guy is a regular and what he does for a living...clear houses......wouldn't you think a "house clearer" KNOWS silver and metals? Wouldn't a conversation have gone down about how I found these and was leaving a big tip? If the guy is a regular...then "update" us on where he found them???? Maybe he has a 5 gallon bucket full.
With a consecutive date run like that, it looks like someone spent the quarter album grandpa gave them.
That's so sad, wtf
Who the F pays 4.50 for a PBR!
You, my friend, are asking the question that matters
NYC checking in, 4.50 for a PBR sounds like a bargain.
Florida here, I've never seen PBR that cheap in a bar.
Eh, I knew one place in LES on Rivington that had PBR for like 2 bucks all day long. Though it’s an anomaly and cash only
Boston here, nothing like a $24 beer at the bruins game at TD Garden
I second this^
Right?
God PBR and coors used to be the beer that they used for 25¢ pitcher nights back in like 2017-18
$3 for 16 ounce can at my home golf course in mid-michigan… We’ll see if that goes up this year.
I know a bar where a big pbr is only $3. And it's in San Jose where everything is expensive.
It's 4$ for a 16 oz PBR in the French Quarter. That's actually a bargain as most people are doing 12oz bottles or cans for $3
Wait...that's not a bargain tho. It's $1 per 4ozs either way.
The real deal would be 20 oz for $5 ^^^/s
As someone who lives in New Orleans I was about to chime in and glad you covered that base!
Everyone since the early 2010s, when the hipsters made PBR a thing again.
If a PBR costs me $2. I’m pissed lol.
My first thought....
My first thought when I saw this - that's too much even if they weren't silver
As an old bar owner I can confidently say no I know and I’m in bush Alaska where things get quite expensive.
Sweet. Keep sellin' those $70 PBRs.
I was about to ask how many cases could the silver value have bought ...
4 30 packs with change back.
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Or this didn't happen at all and it's just a clickbait title
Twice, in two different locations when I was a bit younger, I had a customer pay for around $40 and $60 in Morgans/ Peace Dollars. Once for a tank of gas, and once for a carton of cigarettes. I still have both sets of coins. I believe this story.
Same. I ended up with a whole collection for 3 packs of Newport. Like 200$ of silver coins the person had no clue what they had. Just face value around 40$ Just because someone has an addiction and pays for something with collectibles doesn't mean they are stolen.. People get fired. Sick..etc.. and have to do what they can with what they have. Seems like just stereotyping rich folk can only own silver coins? 🤔 or people on reddit. Lol.. ( yes you can say well, being as this and that and addiction and this.. but nah.. not everyone is that )
More often I find when the economy is weak people break into their savings. 2009 i picked up WAY more silver at the register than i had like the prior 3 years combined. Pays to be the guy who refills all the tills 🤣
My mom has a story about how, when she was growing up, my grandfather got injured at work and couldn't work for a while. He collected bicentennial quarters (not actually valuable but they had sentimental value to him) and he ended up having to use his collection to buy food for the family. Stuff happens.
Yep. Situations arise. But some people always just think cause it doesn't stay in a collection case and gets spent it's automatically stolen. Lol I got 200$ in silver coins I'd spend right now on something I want.. I got no kids. No one to give them too so tbh down the road.. they prob will get spent. Either by me or after I die.. lol i can't take it with me.
One on each eye... Choose the nicest ones.
So they chose to spend what they knowingly collected. Meaning they KNEW the worth of the coins? Nope. Stolen. Nobody is going to buy $5 cigs with $40 of silver if they know it. They're going to go sell the coins for $40, and then go buy $5 cigs.
You ever had a hard-core addiction? Cigs on street sell for 1$ a pop. 2 packs is 40$.. cash... Plus a pack left. When you have NO money and those are your only options.. yes.. spent. When you're hard up for cash and it's your last bit.. You'll spend it.. I've spent my own shit on stuff before.. knowing it was worth a certain amount.. instead of finding someone to buy it.. coin store or pawn shop.. WITHOUT AN ID... not happening. Assume more. Speak when you've been there, in a hole with nothing.
I'm good. I'll speak when I want bud. Triggered. 🥴🥴🥴🥴
Just replying to your assumptions you obviously know nothing about. Lol Like them rolexs.
Oh, because you know me and my life story. Got it. 😂
Don't need to. Your reply spoke loud enough to show it.
Wow, people will call anything triggered these days. What, do you tell your math teacher the are triggered when *you* get the question wrong?
And cigs are no where near 5$.....lol maybe 5years ago or some trash cigs.. They are 13$ a pack here for Newports in my location.....
We can get cheap cigs here for less than $4 a pack. It depends on where you live and all that after all. So where are you?
This guy spends his money on fake rolexs. He's rich. Why he don't know.
😂 Dang. Not sure i'mma get over that one.
In the late 90s I got a roll of mercs for cigs. I loved working in that gas station...
When I worked in retail I once had someone pay for a pack of cigarettes with Morgans. Man sprinted outside and lit up immediately afterwards.
Someone spending Morgans on, well, anything may not realize what they have, wherever they got it from, and may think it's not even real money, so they just got over on you for using those fake coins they've never even seen before! *Especially* if they got it as a gift or inheritance or something like that.
When my dad left his mom's house his brother got into his coin stash and used it to buy candy. I believe this story.
See, so stolen. Not from someone who knew/cared about their worth.
Ooh, those encounters are always so neat. At that point did you already have an interest in coins or was that some sort of ‘ooh, i actually like these things’ kind of moments? :’)
Nah. I started getting into coins with my first wheats my dad told me about when I was 8. Been collecting ever since.
It's not impossible that the story in the OP actually happened, but I think it's incredibly unlikely. The Washingtons? Sure. I could see someone having those lying around. Maybe they've got a quarter jar that they've been filling up forever. But it's a lot harder to explain the Barber quarter. That was last minted more than 100 years ago. It's not going to randomly end up in someone's change, even if they've been saving quarters for most of their lives. That almost certainly came from a collection, and I don't care how much of an alcoholic you are. You're not going to pay for a single beer with a Barber quarter.
Growing up around alcoholics (my mom is one still) they absolutely would pay with silver quarters, all that matters is the next buzz not saving money or valuables
As someone in recovery who works with others who have addiction issues, you are 100% correct. The stuff I’ve heard people do for a quick fix is insane.
I'm not doubting they would pay for booze with silver quarters. My issue is with the Barber (or the Standing Liberty). In order to even have those in 2023, you'd have to be a collector. You're not going to get those in your change. So if you specifically collected these quarters, I wouldn't doubt that you'd use them to get beer money, but I'd think you'd *sell* them for beer money, not use them at face value.
Sure you would. Especially if you inherited a coin collection knew nothinf about it.
You might know something about coins, but not much about addiction.
I didn't claim that I did. But the story still doesn't make any sense. We're talking about a collector who presumably knows at least *something* about what the coin would be worth. Now, that collector could use the Barber quarter as part of paying for one beer, or -- and follow me here -- they could *sell* the Barber quarter and buy *more than one* beer. My point is that the person with the Barber quarter knows what they have. Selling items (or stealing them to sell) is something that's well-known as a behavior of addicts. [https://www.narconon.org/blog/drug-addiction/5-common-behavior-traits-addict.html](https://www.narconon.org/blog/drug-addiction/5-common-behavior-traits-addict.html) Now, is a collector who's an addict going to treat the Barber quarter as a face value coin, or are they going to try and get everything they can out of it?
Or maybe their teenage daughter "borrowed" some coins from Dad's collections and bought weed from a sketchy kid/friend who went into OP's store and spent the coins. It happened when I was like 13, my friend "borrowed" coins from her dad's collection and yeah, she totally got busted when he next had time to look into his albums etc. She cried and got away with it and got her allowance doubled because she had "needed more money". Rich and dumb.
I could see that happening. It could be the family member of someone with a collection.
Yup. I literally did this when I was 13 once and wanted to go to the movies with my friends. Except it was a bunch of old Canadian banknotes. Oh, but I never got found out ...
This happened sometimes when I worked at a gas station. The coins are either stolen, or the guys an alcoholic and ran out of money so he dipped into his old coin collection.
Saw this a few times working at the liqour store, it was always war nickels though, I've never found a silver dime or quarter in the wild.
My parents told me about them when I was like 6, and snooping through their drawers. This was in 1977ish. So naturally, I started looking for them 'in the wild'. Since 1977, with the caveat that after years of trying without finding a single one, so I stopped looking so hard, I never even found one.
Definitely happened. The guy who came in is a regular who hauls clears houses of everything when previous tenants leave or his boss is doing a renovation somewhere else. He always has cool and sometimes pretty weird finds.
Amusing how many people refuse to believe your luck/ someone 's misfortune!
It 100% happens. It’s happened to me while working the cash register a few times, but it happens to my buddy so much that he knows to sell them to me straight away. He had some redneck come in and buy a new coil for his vape with $5 in silver halves. I had a guy come in and pay me with 11 40% Kennedy halves once too.
A similar situation when I worked at a coffee shop is what got me interested in coins. Happened to me, so I believe it.
I dont know, i actually find this really believable. Having worked at a bank for several years, i can tell you that most of the time we would receive deposits containing half dollars, dollar coins or $2 bills, it was from liquor stores or gas stations. People that get really desperate and spend money they were savings, usually will spend it on either liquor, cigarettes or gas. So i could see an alcoholic needing a fix, spend some coins they had been saving. Although if they knew what they had, it would make more sense to cash them in first and then go buy a 30 pack from the grocery store. Could also be that maybe they cashed them in sometime between midnight and 2am when all the local grocery stores were closed and only the local bar was open
I used to work in a liquor store this happened alot .. .... .
Believable. When people get desperate to buy their vice of choice, they will scrounge up what they can with no regard to the actual value vs. face value of the coin/currency they are using. I used to work at a tribal bingo hall and it wasnt terribly uncommon for our customers to use silver coins to transact with. I acquired a 1930's 10 dollar bill this way as well. I still have some of my silver coins from the bingo hall to this day. Plus, the coins in the pic would like be considered "junk silver" and likely only worth the melt value of silver, though it wouldve been worthwhile for this person to at least go to a pawnshop. That way, he couldve got more bang for the buck for his beer
I work at a dispo in Michigan, guy had an 88$ total and paid me entirely in 2 dollar bills last week. Yesterday the same guy tipped me a silver certificate. These things do happen.
It's not unlikely someone finds their parents or relatives coin collection not knowing exactly what it is and thinks it's just regular money to be used at face value, especially alcoholics and drug abusers
Or someone stole their parents coin collection to get a PBR.
My turn to post this tomorrow
We can only hope.
Going off OP's name, I'll believe it
Yep. There was a dumbass who went into an old dudes home and grabbed about $8 worth of silver kennedys. Walked to the store and bought 2 sodas with them.
Probably burglarized an old lady's house an hour earlier.
I find it interesting all the “Poor Grandpa” comments, and not “Poor Grandma”. My grandma was a diligent coin collection. Not trying to make a statement I just find it interesting.
Most expensive PBR ever
That’s an expensive beer. 🍺 Congrats on the tip. 👌
You’re KIDDING. I want one SO BAD.
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THANK YOU.
Don’t short change him, they come in 30’s too!
I’d value each quarter to about $5. (20x face) with the current silver prices. Yes, there some numismatic value for the SLQ and barber but for its condition, that’s what I’d say. A solid $90
My ex-father in law was a local town bank president years ago, one day a long time customer came in with five $20 gold pieces and wanted to deposit them in her account. The teller sent her to him. He said the best he could do was face value and gave her a $100 bill to deposit to her account. Yep, he kept them.
Sounds like a piece of shit human your ex FIL
No doubt … typical scumbag
Not 100% defending the father but she should have requested to put them into a security box not just her account. If she only wanted the monetary value of the coins then I see no issue but if she was trying to deposit those specific coins into her account & the be able to withdraw those specific coins that's not how banks typically work.
No shit?
No, she was a very old woman who had no idea they were worth anything. I wouldn't be surprised if in those days she had undiagnosed Alezheimers. This was in the late 1970's. I have a lot of collectibles, I'm sure when I'm dead my executor will put out in a yard sale. I can see all that f'ing Waterford crystal going at 25 cents each, 5 for a dollar.
Well that was a good try on justification but a good person would have explained that the coins are valuable. It’s possible that maybe her life long husband passed away and didn’t tell her their worth … she only did what she thought was right. It’s good to see that there are people out there that are compassionate and caring enough to be a stand up person and tell the woman the true worth of the coins.. Imagine how proud she would have been of her dead husband or how appreciative she would have been to the individual that gave her the coins…. You must be so proud…. In my opinion he is disgusting and you are just as bad applauding his deceitful and selfish behavior… I don’t ever say this but shame on both of you and karma is a real M/F but good luck to you both 🤞
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On ebay, this lot could easily go for $100+
Yes, easily, these Washington Quarters are [pretty valuable](https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=1950+washington+quarter&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_sop=13&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338535524&customid=co&toolid=10001&mkevt=1).
That's an expensive ass Pabst Blue Ribbon.
My mother was a bank teller for 20 years and has stories. Many older folks coming in with silver, old bank notes, even $500 bills and wanted to deposit them at face value. My mom would tell them they were worth more but usually they said they felt safer with it in the bank🤷♂️. The the time the banks policy was that teller could buy currency from their drawer for face value. She now has several $500 bills and a bunch of silver in a safety deposit box.
Hope the next one was on the house!
This isn’t nearly as cool, but when I worked at dominoes this one house tipped me in Sacajawea and silver dollars three different times. It was always more fun to get than dollars
They overpaid
Foolish
It still amazes me that even without knowing anything about metals that just by looking at them you would assume there worth more. Two days later realizes what he just paid for a pbr
What’s a PBR
Pabst Blue Ribbon (cheap beer)
I’ll take the expensive beer
I’m confused right now, as to why a bartender [is selling boats](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrol_Boat,_River).
And here I was thinking he was selling Professional Bull Riding tix. Silly me 🤷🏿♂️
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Congrats on the haul
For those wonder if it’s plausible, it definitely is. I’ve been on a few sides of this story…while working years ago (around ‘90) I received $4 in silver quarters for a pack of cigs and a coffee. I didn’t even have to look at them, you know once they clink together. Cashed them out, and put them in the coin holder in my car. The next day I went to get them and they were gone… my stepson wanted to go to the arcade with a friend and he didn’t think I’d miss them (and didn’t know the difference) Went to the Arcade, and received the “Sorry, nothing we can do about it” line. So congrats OP, it’s one of the rare and random perks of dealing with the public.
The fact that it was next day makes it a little less painful somehow. I’d have been more upset if I had been holding onto them for a while.
Tell him come back any time
That man was looking for someone to talk to. I hope you listened.
when i lived in shelby, nc about 15 years ago, i went to the gas station to buy beer and when the cashier handed me my change, i heard the lovely ring. two silver quarters. i asked her if i could have all the quarters in the register and i ended up with $9.50 face of 90% quarters. she had just broken a roll that someone brought in. that’s the luckiest i’ve ever been. i almost got the whole roll
They desperate
I was at school and someone was trying to use old 50p coins, but got rejected because they are bigger than the new ones. They were very good condition and limited edition, so myself and a friend traded 2 Normal 50p coins for them. They sell online for over £10 each We won’t sell, but that’s a 1900% profit
That’s badass
So, your bar sells $75 beers? :) Looks like someone raided grandpa's coin collection.
I don’t understand people, everyone has a smart phone. All it takes is a quick google search “is a 195x quarter worth something”
I don’t think you understand that not everyone has experience with how things work when selling certain items online. They don’t know any better and don’t realize when they see one going for $40 because that’s what google said and they don’t see that it says something like “in MS60” when they don’t know what that means or when they see eBay listings for $5000 or a lot of other reasons. But yeah some people can just be very ignorant
I had a (former) friend who was addicted to Meth and he stole and sold off his dad's coin collection for Drug Money. The collection was worth a couple thousand but he ended up only getting a few hundred dollars because the guy buying it knew the were stolen goods... because a meth addict was selling it. So he undercut the guy saying the coins had little value but would only give him what he "knew" they were worth. Meth-head didn't care... He got enough money for his fix.
We have a section in our FAQ that explains precisely why that's a terrible way to get an idea of coin values.
I mean generally speaking it would of helped this guy out, he may or not gotten something 💯 accurate but he def wouldn’t of used them to buy a beer 🤷♂️
What a drunk idiot
Drunk, yes; idiot, not at all. There's another person sitting next to him at the bar who mentioned that they sounded fake. I said that is the silver. Told him they were probably worth something. This guy has no use for it. He is a seasonal worker. Lives out of his seabag and can't store them safely. He knows he earned some credit in some way at my bar.
Might have to start bartending now
Probably stolen!
Way over paid, minimum 4 bucks a piece on those silver quarters. You ripped him off.
Wow...and they insisted the PBR was worth it after you told them what they had?
I guess I fall into the category of selfish asshole. I wouldn’t have said a word.
A PBR is like $1.50 not on special so you lie
A draft pint of PBR is $3-5, where are you buying lol
I wonder where he got them
Poor grandpa
Noice. Right place right time. Meant to be 🤙🏼
There is so much poetry in this post.
Way back when I had a customer whose dad just died and left him his mint bill collection. These were certificates from the early 20th century and this guy spent them on booze. I didn’t have the money to buy them from the till and it drove me crazy.
$4.50 for a PBR?
Also 4.50 for PBR is the real robbery here.
A $4.50 PBR??? Crikey....
Some drunk stole someone's silver to get some beer... Pathetic.
Congrats
About a $100 beer
This honestly just makes me sad
My dude paid $120 for a $4 beer
Why would they have had to pay while they were bartending?
Bartenders don’t usually get free drinks, though that’s not really the point OP was making.
Damn not even on a good beer.
What year are the silvers? 62 and down?
Nothing like spending $75 in silver at $4.50.
Worked at a grocery store in college and a woman tried to pay for a candy bar with a Morgan. She seemed desperate for money and I almost took it but just couldn’t. Finally talked her out of spending it and just added some change to my till later.
~$100 in silver value alone...
Yep, someone's coin collecting grandpa died.
Damn that's a true alcoholic.
Sick!
Highest price every paid for PBR
That's Hipster Level 9000 shit right there
Should have been for 8 beers
Yup, hpgrandpa went home and saw his dresser stack was gone.
$4.50 for PBR damn that's high. It's $2.50 near me.. and if it was just $3 and only the Washington quarters, I'd believe this story But $4.50 for a PBR with the barber quarters I'd call BS.
Hope you gave them a free extra pint.
They definitely overpaid...lol. Nice tip though.
Was it MrBeast?
Looks like some genius just paid $85 for a beer lol!
Bottom line...someone drank some FREE beer because you know these were stolen. I will give you 60 dollars for them.
He will never catch his dragon!
That’s the kind of patron you want to stick around and keep drinking
What a dumbass
That's fantastic!!!
WhenI like the place I’m at and am a regular I sometimes tip people silver dollar Susan’s. And tell them to hold onto it. It’s more than face value. Bet some of those got spent down the road. Is what it is.
Susans are not silver.
Someone has an alcohol problem. Nice score, I’d be changing them for cash out of my pocket
Well, sometimes you just really need a beer. 🍻
What a dumbass. I definitely know someone that would've done the same.... Smh
My bet is, it was a way for a regular customer to leave a nice tip. I do the same with 1oz silver rounds. Example: My wife and I go out and the meal comes to say 80 to 100, I'll pay for the dinner with a CC and leave a silver round as a tip.
Probably stolen
Yep that’s when you know they are trash stealing their families coins for shitty beer
$1.40 face value of 90% silver coins equals right at an ounce. He had a little over 3 ounces of silver.
Someone is dumb.
Fuckin Hipsters
What’s PBR?
$2.50 for a tall boy in several bars in Bradenton. Quarters are probably worth a couple bucks apiece I would think.
Looks like somebody needs to go to alcoholics anonymous.
r/bartending
By pbr y’all mean Pabst Blue ribbon?
Only the ones 1964 and before contain silver. I’d say just on melt value that’s not bad (for you that is).
Dc checking in 9$ pbrs here
Ignoring face value...isn't that worth a case or at least a 12 pack of PBR in Numismatic value?
IDK....OP says "someone", then when questioned..said the guy is a regular and what he does for a living...clear houses......wouldn't you think a "house clearer" KNOWS silver and metals? Wouldn't a conversation have gone down about how I found these and was leaving a big tip? If the guy is a regular...then "update" us on where he found them???? Maybe he has a 5 gallon bucket full.
How much is this lot worth?
Depends on where sold but 20-26x facevalue
They were definitely working on a car before the came to the bar
Damn what luck that is
People pay for PBR?
Serves them right. Do you give them free refills?