Brighten Your Day

I'll try to keep it short: I buy from online coin auctions occasionally as a hobby.

After a long month of waiting, I finally get a package from the auction company. But this box is way too heavy. My name is on the shipping label, but the contents and invoice inside are not mine - way more stuff than I even bid on.

It's after business hours, and I can't call the auction company, so I message the buyers phone number on the invoice. Lol, he got my coins - in a 5,000 lot online auction, half a country away, what's that chance?

He says he's called and emailed the company and had no response, and thought his coins were just lost. His address is on the invoice, and we're only 3 hours away from each other, again, what's that chance? So, I suggested we meet halfway for an exchange, and he agrees.

We meet, exchange coins, and while we're talking I mentioned that I don't usually buy from auctions, I like to get rolled coins from the bank, and me and 2 of my grandkids search coins to fill collection books and look for error coins.

As we're about to go our separate ways, this guy grabs one of his sealed, certified unsearched, roll of pennies, tears it open and hands me three coins - without even looking at them! - and says this is for you and your grandkids.

I was absolutely, completely blown away. Those coins could have been worth thousands each, but he never looked at them, just handed them to me, shook my hand, and left... he paid a huge premium for that roll of coins - I know because I saw the invoice.

I have put the coins in protective flips, wrote the date and name of this guy on them, and I can't wait to give them to my grandkids and tell them this story. And I hope this story is one they remember.