(WSVN) – For a lot of South Floridians, cash is tight, however one girl pulled out a coin assortment and questioned if that would remedy her issues. Her new downside is she didn’t know who to belief to inform her how a lot it’s value, so she turned to Assist Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.
Some issues in life don’t appear to make sense. It started with Miriam driving a number of miles from her home.
Miriam Rodriguez: “And I noticed this large quantity of white pigeons, and I mentioned, ‘God, if I may solely have one at house.’”
Now the unexplainable.
Miriam Rodriguez: “Lower than per week later, one confirmed up. Two days later, two had been collectively.”
And now, seven years later…
Patrick Fraser: “What number of pigeons do you assume you have got now?
Miriam Rodriguez: “About 70 or 80.”
Miriam loves the peaceable sounds the pigeons make as she feeds them.
The cooing distracts her from one thing she badly wants: cash.
Miriam Rodriguez: “To pay payments, to get a brand new roof, which I would like, large time.”
Miriam is retired and might’t work. Getting by on Social Safety is almost not possible for her.
After which she considered one thing.
Miriam Rodriguez: “‘Wait a minute. I’ve all this quantity of cash that perhaps they’re value some cash.’ You possibly can really feel the load on the cash itself.”
Silver {dollars} from the Seventies, $2 payments.
Miriam Rodriguez: “I need to understand how actual they’re. I wanna understand how a lot they’re value.”
Miriam may log on and use an app to guess the worth.
Patrick Fraser: “You don’t belief the app?”
Miriam Rodriguez: “No.”
There are individuals who gives you a worth for the cash, however Miriam is aware of crooks are all over the place.
Patrick Fraser: “How are you aware you’re not getting ripped off?”
Miriam Rodriguez: “That’s the rationale why I known as Assist Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.”
Effectively, Howard, how can Miriam shield herself if she tries to promote her cash?
Howard Finkelstein: “There are not any particular legal guidelines to guard customers after they purchase and promote conventional cash like nickels, dimes and {dollars}. That’s why it’s essential discover somebody who has an incredible status to get what your cash are value.”
We went to see Pat Olive on the Gables Coin & Stamp Store in Coral Gables.
Pat Olive: “Anytime you see copper, simply go forward and spend it. They’re simply common cash.”
Olive has a status for being sincere and the data to assist Miriam.
Pat Olive: “See the place it says, ‘This be aware is authorized tender.’ In 1928, it says this be aware is payable in gold.”
Sadly for Miriam, her two greenback payments are from 1934.
Pat Olive: “This one right here, it’s only a common $2 invoice.”
However no less than Miriam’s cash are genuine, not like these pretend ones Pat confirmed us that somebody tried to promote.
Pat Olive: “That’s why I say watch out what you purchase on-line.”
Being within the coin store was like being on an outdated film set, as folks introduced in gold, silver and cash.
Pat Olive: “You by no means know what you’re gonna discover. So, yeah, I take pleasure in it quite a bit.”
Sadly for Miriam, none of her cash had been uncommon or useful.
Miriam Rodriguez: “I’m excited as a result of I discovered one thing new: that I had no clue. Disenchanted as a result of it’s not value something.”
We left, leaving Miriam to seek out one other option to pay her payments. Not what she had hoped for, however not a wasted day, both.
Miriam Rodriguez: “Nevertheless it’s been attention-grabbing, very attention-grabbing.”
Sorry you didn’t have a useful coin, Miriam. Now, to pay for a brand new roof, to pay her property taxes, Miriam is contemplating a reverse mortgage on her home. We’ll do what we will to assist her with that.
Issues flocking to you? Really feel like they’re for the birds? A penny in your ideas, so we will coin a phrase that will help you.
With this Assist Me Howard, I’m Patrick Fraser, 7News.
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