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Wonderful examples, Paul. Treasure them always.  |
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 those coins have a meaning. |
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I saw a few comments upthread about coins from a dad's WWII service, and this is what started my interest in world coins. Those coins charted what seemed a bizarre deployment route: Egypt to Iran to India to the Philippines to Japan. While I've been dilligently selling off the other world coins I collected as a kid and teen, these will stay in my collection. Along with a few 17th and 18th c. Spanish coppers my older brother brought back for me from a summer program in Spain he attended as a high school student in 1970. And the first medieval coin I ever bought, from the Sunday stamp & coin market in the Plaza Major in Madrid in October 1980.
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I also have a few that are sentimental to me. First is a 1909 VDB LWC that I found in change at the supply store in school when I was in the 6th grade. It is the only coin I kept from my childhood collection. Also have an 1898 IHC and a 1912 V nickel that were passed down to me from my father when he died. They are not high grade but mean the world to me. Edited by 88isgreat
02/27/2018 6:58 pm
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Great stories.  |
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One of my first coins from when I just started collecting as a child is a 2004 Silver American Eagle. I remember silver back then being really cheap - that coin cost me something like 8 dollars. It's sitting around in a box somewhere at home, having accumulated a ring of light brown toning around the edge through the years.
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My father & his brothers owned a liquor store through the 1960s, and pulled an array of US coins out of circulation. They are in small paper envelopes, annotated in his long-gone hand. When my older brother returned home from a summer in Europe in the early 60s, he brought me a coupla dozen coins out of pocket change. W-o-w. As I've traveled here & there over the years - Europe & Southwest Asia - I've brought home piles of pocket change that I share with the grandchildren. Once upon a time, I was in a UK post office just as the window clerk was taking delivery of bags of brand new 2p coins. "Can I buy those?" Five or six bags went into my back pack and, boy, was I sore by the end of that trip! Cheers, /s/ ikeyPikey |
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I have a really worn 1917 LWC with a hole in it. It's the oldest coin I got from change. My interest in what it might be worth (because all old coins are really valuable) started an investigation. It's been sitting in a jar with some other wheaties I have had for more than 40 years.  |
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Very nice! |
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An 1855 Seated Liberty quarter, an 1876 Seated Liberty dime, 1877-S Seated Liberty half dollar, and an 1877-s Trade dollar that were saved by my great grandfather. They were passed down to my grandfather, then to my mother who kept them in an envelope in her dresser along with a few other coins that were added along the way. They now have a prominent place in my collection, waiting to be passed on to one of my 14 grandchildren who shows a genuine interest in collecting coins. Whoever gets them will have a good start towards a nice collection when they add in the hundreds I've collected over the past 60 years. |
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That sounds like a very nice story. |
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That is very nice, Dgm9999.  to the Community! |
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For me it's a counterfeit 1856 Indian Head cent. It was given to my grandfather (probably in the late 50s or early 60s) to pay off a debt. He was cheated as it was passed off as the real thing. My grandfather gave it to my father in the early 60s. He took it to a coin dealer back then who told him he thought it was counterfeit but wasn't sure. My father gave it to me around 2000. I wasn't sure by looking at the coin with 10x magnification. I then put it under a microscope and could see that the 6 was altered. I then did some further investigation and determined that is was originally an 1858. Altering an 1858 was relatively common and can be identified because the 5s are different on a 58 vs a 56. All and all it was a fun way to learn about the coin and coin collection! |
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My grandfather passed down to me a VF to XF 1898 S Morgan dollar. Not sure anyone in the family ever carried it as money but would like to believe that was the case. It now is coin #1 in my VF Morgan date set. Most of my childhood LWC set came from four 2 gallon jugs of pennies found in a kitchen cabinet when he died. Even had a few semi-key dates like 14S and 15S. I think the depression taught him to literally save every penny! |
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Thank you for sharing your story, brooktre. to the Community! |
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