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Pretty amazing stories.
I have an 1856 S $2.50 gold coin that I got from my mother, who got it from her mother. It is fairly worn on one side, so it is only VF, but still, my grandmother got it from circulation. So I will never cash that one in, no matter how high gold goes, even though it is just worth bullion value.
The other is a set of Lincoln cents (in two blue Whitman folders), that I got from my best friend as a get well gift, after having my appendix removed at 11 years old. The folders were about half full, and that is what got me started in coin collecting. I don't have the friend, but I still have the coins. We parted ways, a very long time ago. Actually, it was only about 3 years later, after receiving the coins. Kind of sad on why he did that too.
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My favorite is an 1853 large cnet. it was the first coin I purchased with my husband.
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I have coins my great grandmother sewed into my grampa's WW1 uniform shirt on his way to France. I have coins from my Dad's collection, my father-in-law's service in Europe during WW2...
But my most meaningful coin was a penny (I know, I'm supposed to call it a cent..). I was on a long backpacking trip, from Kent CT to Katahdin in Maine on the Appalachian Trail, and just north of the Maine/NH border the hike began to really suck. My two buddies got poison ivy wicked bad in Massachusetts and had to go home. It had rained almost every day for the last two weeks. I missed a rendezvous with my girlfriend on Mt Washington by 30 minutes. My knee brace was broken. My stove broke. I chipped a tooth. A mouse had gotten into my food bag. And did I tell you about the rain? Well, just after I was stung by a hornet (twice), I was hiking with my head down feeling sorry for myself and planning to "bail" - to get off the trail. And there it was. A shiny penny, heads up, on a rock in the middle of the trail. A lucky penny. And I thought about how lucky I was. To have buddies. To have a girlfriend. To have the time to be outdoors. To have met two girls hiking in the other direction who had two stoves - and loaned me one. I picked up the penny, picked up my feet, and enjoyed every mile all the way to the top of Katahdin - where I left the penny, heads up, for next guy who needed it.
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Franklin halves for sure! As a child, I used to sift through my dad's car compartment/glove box for coins, back then I was interested in the Wheat cent coins because I thought they were rare with such an old design. Countless times I would find Franklin halves and was curious as to why they sounded so different when dropped, my dad and I had no idea they're silver, so it just stayed there and got spent! Last year, I cracked open a total of 10 rolls from a local bank and found 10 franklins, and I'm still holding on to those babies :D Thanks for letting me share!
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My most meaningful coins are the nine silver dollars (6 Morgan & 3 Peace) that my late father gave me a few years ago. They are the coins that my parents used to give us on Easter and birthdays. We would trade them for paper money before spending. My father had obtained them from the bank in the mid 1950s when the coins still circulated in California. One of the 1921 Morgans is an MS62, straight from the bank and only passed back and forth between parent and child a few times. The others are in varying degrees of circulation with the worst about an XF45 or so. They are all only worth spot to anyone else but to me they are priceless because of the memories they conjure. Of the coins I have collected myself, the California and Texas commemorative half dollars, the 2009 UHRDE, the 5 25th anniversary SAE sets, and the 2009 Silver Proof Northern Mariana Islands Quarter with a major die error are my favorites. The quarter appears to be the only one that escaped the mint, no others have surfaced in the 2-1/2 years since I first showed it on the web. It was written up by Mike Diamond in the 14feb2011 issue of Coin World, so that has been out for a year and still no others appear to exist. It is the kind of error that when discovered at the mint caused them to retire the die and destroy all coins minted with it (save the one that came to me in a silver proof set). I still love Morgan dollars, even though I sold 50 of them to finance the UHRDE purchase and bribe the wife to let me get it. I haven't bought any for a while with all of the silver coming out of the mint sucking on my wallet lately but it looks like there might be some room to get back into them this year. |
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