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New Member
 United States
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I don't have a camera, unfortunately! :( I just placed an order online for a bunch of square tubes to keep what they gave me in. I plan on putting them in my safe deposit box along with my other silver and bullion. I will NEVER sell these coins. It's convenient though, there just happened to be exactly 20 walking liberty and 20 Franklin halves. That's the exact amount that will fit in the tubes I bought! :) |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Watch your mail. They may send you a bill for that.  Just kidding I hope. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Good for you Alzika  Im sure when my grandparents coins are doled out, EVERYONE in my family will all of a sudden be a coin collector  Im thinking on making sure they all go to me  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5318 Posts |
If you can't take pics, it would at least be great to know the dates. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
673 Posts |
That is great ! My Grandfather gave me some silver coins when I was 10 , I have been hooked ever since. Wonderful thing those Grandparents !
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Pillar of the Community
United States
790 Posts |
My Grandparents hooked me too! My Grandma gave me some stamps from Canada (You can not imagine the excitement I felt to get stamps from another country!). My Grandpa brought me back some coins from West Germany from a business trip. The coins didn't interest me until a few years later when I was dissassembling the washing macine and found those coins inside of it. My grandmother and I collected stamps together for years, until I went to high school and college and got too cool to hang with my grandma. Whoops! So sorry grandma,I owe you more than I can describe.
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New Member
United States
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Walking liberty halves:
2 1940
1 1941
1 1941-D
1 1942
2 1943
1 1943-D
4 1944
1 1944-S
2 1945
3 1946
2 1947
All coins are heavily circulated, none even appear to be AU quality.
The Franklins are mostly 1962s and 1963s, and also, heavily circulated.
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Valued Member
United States
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You are lucky! I have an 8 year old nephew who recently started a coin collection. I had no idea he was a numismatist until I traveled across country to visit, and he showed me his collection. I would have brought him some coins my dad and grandpa gave me if I had known! We did go to the coin store together and I helped him pick out some nice coins that he bought with his own money, and I bought him a bunch of supplies to help with his growing collection. It's nice to see someone from the next generation in our family take up the hobby that three generations have already enjoyed so much!
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Valued Member
United States
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thats was nice of them, I am hoping my daughter will collect coins when she grows up. Shes only 5 months old at this time.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Why don't you buy a Dansco album to display your coins? Sounds like you have a decent smattering of dates between 1940-1947
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with your decision not to sell them I recently inherited some coins from my Grandfather and I will certainly never sell them. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Your grandparents are geniuses. Pure geniuses. Very few people saved silver coins.
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Valued Member
United States
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My Grandfather got me into collecting when I was 10 and every year untill I was 16 he would give a Ike dollar for each year old I was he would also through in some Franklin's .My Dad made me keep them in his safety deposit box .He said I could have them when I turned 18 .Found out from my step Mother my Dad sold them to pay off a gambling debt .Needless to say Dad I wasn't close after that .Grandpa willed me his collection but my Aunt sold them she used the money to pay on some of her Breast cancer bills (What can you say)Wish I had those coins today . Seeking:More Coins Rainman  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I wound up with 1/8 of the silver my grandpa pulled. I have about $250 - $300 face of silver. I used his coins to build a nice collection around the few silver coins that I had. I've also said that I would not sell his coins (barring any life or death situation).
My problem is that now I have a lot of silver sitting in the safe deposit box (that's a heck of a problem to have!). Its not doing anything for me. I've got $75 face of 1964 silver. That's great - but I can't help but wonder what he would tell me to do - hang on to it just because its his, or trade some of it to continue to build my collection. Maybe instead of having 3 rolls of 1964 dimes, I could have a dime set that covered 3 decades.
I don't want to loose the importance of his coins to my collection, but a lot of his coins were more of a hoard than a collection.
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Valued Member
United States
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I think you should pick out some specific pieces from the "hoard" to save as a rememberance, such as key dates or better yet some coins that might have a special remberance attached to it. The rest use toward building your collection. Sometimes I feel we put too much emphasis on the "things" when really we should be emphasising "memories".
The new pieces you get using what is left from the "hoard" will have a special place in your memories...it will be what you got due to your Grandpa collecting before you
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