Rare Stamp May Be on Envelope in Florida Ballot Box
What can you say, but :smack: :smack: :smack:
I understand we may never know who mailed it. A little mystery. In fact it suggests some sort of short story. Something by O. Henry.
Just a simple cross reference for “suicide” and “large stamp collection” should spot the right guy.
Man, the serious stamp collectors all probably had strokes when they read that story!
I once received two old buffalo nickels in my change at a 7-11. Not in the same league as a stamp worth the price of a house, but it was nice find nevertheless.
Yeah, I once got a 1907 V nickel at 7-11. In another thread, it was pointed out that old coins are so common at 7-11 because people use them to buy nicotine-fixers, er, smokes.
I don’t know who’d be so anxious to vote that they would use that rare a stamp.
I used to work at a littlc convenience store. Every now and then weird coins or bills like silver certificates would come through and later we’d hear about someone in the community whose house was robbed and their coin collection stolen.
Wonder if it might be a fake… Hard to imagine a collector keeping such a tremendously valuable stamp, the equivalent of the fabled 1804 silver dollar, under wraps all these years, and not selling it.
I’m betting on fake. It was not a coincidence that it was mailed on a ballot with no name. I’m sure it was a joke but since it was locked up by law we may never know. If the article I read they may have to destroy the ballots after the waiting period.
If it’s not a fake, I’d bet that someone inherited a stamp collection and didn’t know anything about them, or just found the stamp in a collection of loose papers and didn’t realize its worth.
I’d further suppose that if someone did inherit a stamp collection it wasn’t mounted or organized in the way of serious stamp collectors. I can’t imagine anyone but an utter idiot removing a stamp from a mounted collection to use as postage.
But then again, one should never underestimate the stupidity of humans.
It could have been used by an angry spouse who knew exactly what he/she was doing.
I’ve found 2 silver quarters (before 1965) in the last 3 years, so if you’re sharp-eyed you
might spot one…
I wonder how far (say) a typical 1966 quarter has traveled since it was minted. I’d guess
close to a million miles…
Old stuff pops up all the time. For instance, I keep a 1928 Quarter (looks just like this one ) in my wallet as my lucky coin. I was working in an office breaking rolls of quarters when it popped out onto my lap. With permission from the boss, I exchanged it for one of my own quarters, and there we are.
Maybe they need to spend $30,000,000 in 30 days.
OK, I’ve spent too much money on a pair of shoes, but who’s going to want to buy a small square piece of paper (used!) for twenty grand? I wish I had that kind of money lying around the house.
If anyone has that kind of money, I’ll bake you the best pecan pie in the country for only five hundred bucks, and deliver it! 
The loving are the daring. Dare to love and be loved! :o
I vote for this one!
Lots of people use vintage stamps, that’s nothing new. Sometimes fairly valuable ones, even. But vintage stamps that happen to be the “holy grail” of stamp collecting just don’t quite pass the smell test. You can bet whoever owns or has posession will utilize all 9 points of the law and find out if it’s the real deal or not.