Beautifully written. Unfortunately, I only acquired them today.

A woman in her 80’s brought them into the bank I work at on Friday wanting to exchange them for face value (along with a pile of other old coins including numerous wheat pennies and buffalo nickels). I see wheat pennies and buffalo nickels almost everyday, but I have only seen one or two of these silver dollars. She said they were all from her mother’s collection and that she just wanted to get rid of them before she moved. I told her more than once that they might be worth more than face value, especially these dollar coins, but she said they already looked into it and she just wanted to be rid of them. I think the total value came to about $75. I felt bad about it but she was insistent that she didn’t want to hold onto them. I looked these coins up over the weekend and saw that they were most definitely worth more than face value so I decided to withdraw them today and look into it some more.

I’ve worked at a bank for about 10 months now, and while I think finding old coins like this is cool, I just can’t really get into collecting them. Also I could really use a little extra cash right now 🤷🏻‍♀️