An unidentified person tossed a rare 1881 “half eagle” coin into a Salvation Army holiday donation kettle the day after Thanksgiving in Torrington, Conn. This type of coin, which has a face value of $5, was our nation’s first-ever gold coin. It remained in circulation from 1795 to 1929. The coin could be worth $250 to $400 today.
The exact location where the coin was donated is unclear. A change machine counting donated money didn’t recognize the coin and separated it.
that is cool
that is SO cool. i would love to find one of those.
That’s pretty generous. Unless the person who donated it thought it was only a quarter, but oh well.
talk about gods grace!
no kidding glad you said that.
some lucky people in the world
It dons’t matter they 10 dollar coins in Mexico
Wow is that generous. But why would a person do that? He could have become rich.
He didn’t realise what coin it was. He gave it on accident(but if he knew now….)!
Wow.I collect rare and foreign money(I have A LOT of rare money!), but this is AWESOME! Now I realy want that coin!
wow the salvation army wold have been very grateful!!!!!!!!!:-)
I’ve heard about things like that before
wow just wow
$400 bucks ?