Either a rich mystery donor is traveling the country dropping gold coins into Salvation Army kettles, or the idea of giving the valuable investment coins to the street-corner charity is spreading.
On Dec. 3 someone dropped a South African Krugerrand worth $1,750 in a kettle along Coalter Street in Staunton, local Salvation Army officials said.
Five days later, a similar donation was made in a kettle in Clarksville, Tenn., the fifth such donation there in five years, our sister newspaper the Leaf-Chronicle reports.
And the news wires are full of stories of similar donations, from Calgary to to Chicago to Topeka. So far no one has connected the dots to find a link, gold or otherwise.
Source: www.newsleader.com
