Posted: 1/20/2013 7:04:10 AM EDT
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A long time ago a cigar box was the perfect place for odds and ends and trivia that while not usually valuable was still worth retaining. Well, I'd been asking about a certain cigar box for a while. It had been passed from relative to relative and I thought it was gone. But I was wrong.:D (1911 Colt, original finish and magazines. Mfg year 1918)
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Outstanding!
My 81 yo Pops wasa dispersing Officer (PAY) in the Navy During the Korean Conflict and the 50's. It was a time when The new fangled sandwich coins were coming into the system and Silver was being removed. Payment to sailors was made in cash. Once every two weeks Pops drew a large amount of cash and set up a table with two SP's Before that, he diligently sorted through the coinage and culled the Silver and repaced it with newly minted sandwich coins. The Silver coins, carefully stacked on edge in Cuban Cigar boxes, are stored in his attic, untouched since he retired in 1959. 
Sorry for the hijack OP! Great find for you! 
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Outstanding!
My 81 yo Pops wasa dispersing Officer (PAY) in the Navy During the Korean Conflict and the 50's. It was a time when The new fangled sandwich coins were coming into the system and Silver was being removed. Payment to sailors was made in cash. Once every two weeks Pops drew a large amount of cash and set up a table with two SP's Before that, he diligently sorted through the coinage and culled the Silver and repaced it with newly minted sandwich coins. The Silver coins, carefully stacked on edge in Cuban Cigar boxes, are stored in his attic, untouched since he retired in 1959.
Sorry for the hijack OP! Great find for you!
Uhhhh... "sandwich" or more accurately "clad" coins did not come into existance until 1965 in the U.S. |
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Outstanding!
My 81 yo Pops wasa dispersing Officer (PAY) in the Navy During the Korean Conflict and the 50's. It was a time when The new fangled sandwich coins were coming into the system and Silver was being removed. Payment to sailors was made in cash. Once every two weeks Pops drew a large amount of cash and set up a table with two SP's Before that, he diligently sorted through the coinage and culled the Silver and repaced it with newly minted sandwich coins. The Silver coins, carefully stacked on edge in Cuban Cigar boxes, are stored in his attic, untouched since he retired in 1959.
Sorry for the hijack OP! Great find for you!
Uhhhh... "sandwich" or more accurately "clad" coins did not come into existance until 1965 in the U.S. Hmm.... Does not compute with family story....which I may have confused since I heard it in my childhood. Nonetheless, Pops still has Cigar boxes of Silver coins in the Attic. 
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Outstanding!
My 81 yo Pops wasa dispersing Officer (PAY) in the Navy During the Korean Conflict and the 50's. It was a time when The new fangled sandwich coins were coming into the system and Silver was being removed. Payment to sailors was made in cash. Once every two weeks Pops drew a large amount of cash and set up a table with two SP's Before that, he diligently sorted through the coinage and culled the Silver and repaced it with newly minted sandwich coins. The Silver coins, carefully stacked on edge in Cuban Cigar boxes, are stored in his attic, untouched since he retired in 1959.
Sorry for the hijack OP! Great find for you!
Uhhhh... "sandwich" or more accurately "clad" coins did not come into existance until 1965 in the U.S. This, 1965 was the year. |