Parcel

Yesterday morning this brown cardboard box arrived at our house - all the way from Arizona.

It was not unexpected as the sender had forewarned me. His name is Bruce and he  lives in Prescott Valley, Arizona with a woman he calls SWMBO - his wife Judy. Bruce is the brains behind a blog called "Oddball Observations". This is how much it cost to send the mystery box:-

Bruce did not know that it was my birthday today. However, his box was the first thing I opened this morning. It was expertly packed so I had to get out our kitchen scissors:-

Inside I found this package. What could it be? Perhaps a brick of cocaine or compressed marijuana.

After much cursing and excited cutting, I finally reached the contents. It is a cache of coins from different countries - mostly gathered during Bruce and Judy's royal tour of Europe in 1985:-

Bruce had included a typed note. You can read an extract from it here:-

Here are the coins on our coffee table:-

I sorted through them. There were coins from Mexico, Austria, Italy, France, Canada, Great Britain, India, Belgium and Germany as well as two silver U.S. dollars. After researching the value of these four rare coins I cleaned them up ready for sale on The Dark Web. The rare 1936 penny is worth approximately US$2000. The 1943 threepenny bit should fetch  US$500 and the two Indian coins ought to make US$250 each.

I would publicly like to thank Bruce and Judy for their generosity and wish  them all the best as they settle into their new luxury apartment in Prescott Valley.

Blogging can do things like this - nice human things.