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 Thanks for the post. |
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Thank you for sharing your story, very nice.  Fishnwidow |
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Great story and excellent writing.
Thanks for sharing.
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Great story! Thanks for sharing!!!
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Whoops, he was 12, good call Amac44. Very fun afternoon I had last night. I cant believe my dad never showed me these before. I remember going through all of his Buffalo nickles a few years ago, I wonder why he didn't show me then. Hard to put those coins away and go back to working on my Kennedy half dollars and Wheat pennies. I wonder what happened to all the gold coins everyone was asked to turn in back then. |
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Thanks for the story. My grandpa gave me his coin collection, which consisted of a partially filled Whitman early Lincoln book (it contained some of the better dates, but I lost it somewhere along the line), and a small jeweler's blue velvet-lined box which contained an old Canadian Half Dime, an 1878 Morgan and an 1898 Indian cent. He was a county treasurer for 40 years and I think that these coins were pulled from money that passed through the office in the course of business. The coins looked so good in that velvet box that I decided to house my coin collection in a cigar box. It's kind of like the loose coins your dad has in the envelope. There's nothing in there that you couldn't just dump out on a towel or placemat. Who cares about a thumbprint on a circulated 1958 Canadian dollar, or a grungy 1944 silver nickel, anyway? "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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I am bookmarking this thread, and in the future when someone asks me what the allure of coin collecting is, I'm going to send them here.
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What a fantastic perspective!
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That is EXACTLY why we SHOULD collect or accumulate (whatever your method is) It is so important in this day and age to spend some time with loved ones and share the memories and stories that go along with our life adventures. Thanks so much for sharing this very well written and very good story!!
Rob
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ACTF_ZETT, have a look at the front page:
www.coincommunity.com
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Wow, thanks Dave, thats cool.
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Nice story ACTF, thanks. Interesting perspective too. I often think of and appreciate the historical aspect of coins, i.e., early 19th century coins, civil war era pieces, Peace dollars, etc. You've reminded me that many coins carry with them a lot of personal history too. |
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Great story, but you mistakingly wrote "White Sox" when you obviously meant to write "Cubs". Common mistake, no worries.  Regards, ~neuron |
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