Gold coin worth more than $1,000 dropped in Pa. Salvation Army kettle

Gold coin dropped in Pa. Salvation Army kettle

YORK, Pa. — The Salvation Army says someone dropped a gold coin worth more than $1,000 in a collection kettle in south-central Pennsylvania. York Salvation Army Maj. Lurlene Mudge said the South African gold Krugerrand was wrapped in a $1 bill and later discovered in counting the collections. It was placed Friday in a kettle outside a Kmart store in Springettsbury Township, just outside York.

Mudge said the coin is a morale booster for the people who ring bells by the collection kettles. She says it’s been two years since the York Salvation Army got a gold coin as a donation.