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Red Kettle Report: November 25 – December 5, 2015

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By Hubert Walker for CoinWeek ….
Every year beginning in November and carrying on through Christmas Eve, volunteers for the Salvation Army ring the bell and man the red kettles outside many a storefront and mall.

And every year, anonymous and not-so-anonymous donors alike deposit gold coins (both foreign and domestic) in the iconic kettles, parting with these obviously valuable numismatic objects so that the 150-year-old international Christian charity may better serve those in need at this special time of year.

So here, without further ado, is the first “Red Kettle Report” for 2015: a weekly listing of news reports of gold coins that have popped up around the country in Salvation Army donations.

  1. November 25Krugerrands found in kettles around Youngstown area: http://www.ohio.com/news/local/gold-coins-left-in-area-kettles-1.644765
  2. December 1$5 1/10-oz. American Eagle, $50 Canadian gold coins found in different Chicago-area kettles: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2-Gold-Coins-Donated-to-Salvation-Army-Red-Kettle-Drive-360163321.html
  3. Dec. 2Spokane-area kettle sees krugerrand donated for seventh year in a row: http://www.krem.com/story/news/local/good-news/2015/12/03/donor-drops-22-karat-gold-coin-spokane-red-kettle/76740194/
  4. Dec. 2$25 1/2-oz. American Eagle gold coin found in Jamestown, North Dakota kettle: http://www.jamestownsun.com/news/local/3896286-gold-coin-dropped-red-kettle
  5. Dec. 21997 Canadian $50 Queen Elizabeth II gold coin, 1915 U.S. gold quarter eagle donated to Salvation Army in Mebane, North Carolina: http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20151204/NEWS/151209559
  6. Dec. 41998 1-oz. American Eagle gold coin found in Geneva, Illinois kettle: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20151205/news/151209254/
  7. Dec. 5McHenry County, Illinois Salvation Army finds three U.S. gold coins in area kettles: http://www.nwherald.com/2015/12/06/salvation-army-of-mchenry-county-receives-3-gold-coins-in-red-kettle-campaign/aksv03s/.

Fun Fact: According to Captain Carol Lewis of the Salvation Army of McHenry County, the dropping of gold coins into Salvation Army kettles is believed by some to have started there.

More to come next week!

Hubert Walker
Hubert Walker
Hubert Walker has served as the Assistant Editor of CoinWeek.com since 2015. Along with co-author Charles Morgan, he has written for CoinWeek since 2012, as well as the monthly column "Market Whimsy" for The Numismatist and the book 100 Greatest Modern World Coins (2020) for Whitman Publishing.

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