Post Your Favorite Coin And Story

I first want to preface this with the fact that I have been collecting coins for only around 8 months now and I am hooked. I search rolls, buy uncirculated silver coins mostly although I have purchased a few uncirculated indian heads. Anyway, my mom told me she was goint to her safety deposit box at the bank and she had something for me. I didn't know how to respond because I didn't even realize my parents had a safety deposit box. Anyway she brought over a huge bag of coins,mostly circulated silver coins from the 50's and 60's. There were probably close to 200 coins from dimes to 1/2 dollars, morgan and Peace dollars and quarters. Anyway there were two envelopes with my grandmothers writing on them. On the outside of one it read, "for my loving daughter, these will be quite valuable some day, I love you very much" also it said that my grandmother had spend a whole day on driving from bank to bank on the first day of issue to get these two coins. They were JFK 1/2 dollars from 1964 in beautiful shape, probably MS65. I will never get rid of these coins for ever and I will make sure my kids don't either. I of course will keep them in the same envelope as well, but I have put them in air tight containers though. The other envelope was probably better. I contained two Morgan dollars, one was jet black. But on the envelope it read that these two dollars were given to my grandfather as his first paycheck, from his first job out of college in 1936 or so in Okamudgie, Oklahoma. I know I must of spelled that wrong. Jay

While sitting in prison comparing stories of our stashed away money, one cell mate mentioned a pile of old coins he had stole from a museum. He said I could have them if I helped him break out so we did break out and he gave me all those old coins. Turned out he was a counterfeiter and all were fakes.
None of the above is true but I've been thinking of how a mystery book about coins would sell.
My Dad gave me some coins when I was a kid. I still have all the ones he gave me as a memory of him.

It would appear that a 1923 Peace dollar is the most prevalent gift so far.

well that same coinstar machine the other day had a penny on it in the same place we got the nickel --1943 steel cent