Three Coins in the Kettle Enrich Salvation Army
The Salvation Army has struck gold three times in recent weeks.
The Salvation Army’s Jonathan Harvey was elated when he learned that someone had dropped a valuable gold coin into a donation kettle. And just after he auctioned off that coin Thursday and earned the organization $575, his phone rang. Another of the group’s bell-ringers had found a gold coin in his kettle.
With the second coin was a note indicating there would be another coin in another kettle. And so there was, Harvey said Friday.
The first coin was a South African Krugerrand, and the other two were U.S. Liberty 1-ounce coins.
Harvey said he had sold one of the Liberty coins for $1,000 and had received a $500 bid for the other.
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