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 Posted 05/18/2015  03:01 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Numisma to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I don't know if this thread already exists, but I'll start it off. As a kid (approx. 2007-09), relatives and family friends always knew of my hobby and gave me Whitman wheat head albums. They usually were missing the key dates, but I found five nice finds:
5. 1913-S
4. 1926-S
3. 1924-D
2. 1909-S (cleaned)
1. 1917 DDO
Of these, I have sold numbers 5,4 and 1.
Does anyone else have stories of great gifts from unsuspecting relatives?
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 Posted 05/18/2015  09:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not sure if this counts as gifts but at coin shows I've gotten to know dealers fairly well. I always as if they have any Folders or Albums they don't want. One dealer that has a coin store has given me virtually many hundreds of Folders and Albums over the years. Possibly the vast majority of Albums I have all came from him. Even ones I don't need or want I give to schools or Goodwill stores. And I have a massive pile of those slides I've taken out of horribly bad Albums. All sort of gifts.
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 Posted 05/18/2015  11:25 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My wife's aunt usually sends me something coin related. A couple years back she sent me my birth year proof set (1969). Most know I cracked all of my proof sets to fill my Dansco albums. Well, the first proof set I ever bought was the 1969 set. It remained intact for almost 14 years before I cracked it. It was the only one for which I felt some regret. Now it has been replaced (this one I will not crack).
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Oh, here's another I forgot to mention. When I was 8 (2008) my grandfather gave me a 1943-P War Nickel from his coin jar. I gave it a good examination and found it to be a 43/2. I know you're probably thinking that my 8-year-old imagination was playing tricks on me, but I had it confirmed by a dealer.
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