A 125-year-old dime just sold for $1.32 million

CNN ^ | August 20, 2019 | David Wiliams

[dp0622]

1898 and worth nothing?? wow.

And why was the guy such a ####?

Wow.

Yeah man my mother keeps telling me to look though them again but i told her there’s NOTHING

And don’t get me started with the stamps he left

Great guy and I loved him and still do but my mother told me he really thought they were worth something.

I didn’t even know about the stamps and coins until he passed.

Thank goodness I have his watch too :) For keeping.

[SamAdams76]

I guess the guy figured I was ripping off my uncle's collection for some easy money. Which in a way I was, for even though my uncle gave them to me, I don't think he figured on me trying to sell them. Anyway, even today, a typical 1898 silver dollar fetches about $4.98 on Amazon.

You will get a lot more if they are either in very good or mint condition or have a characteristic that makes them rare. My collection has none of those!

Now I did collect stamps on my own when I was a kid. They don't amount to much either. I used to send away for packets of them back in the 1970s. They were all postmarked which supposedly added value (they didn't). But I liked the randomness of those packets. You never knew what you were going to get. Kind of like with baseball cards which is a topic for another thread entirely.

For some reason, I got a ton of these Skylab ones. Also a lot of Christmas stamps from around the world.

[dp0622]

That’s COOL :)

I’m sure your uncle gave them to you to do as you wished with them as did my pop.

[Rebelbase]

This gives me hope of using my 50 state quarters and US dependencies collector’s map to aid in my retirement in a few years.