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Grandparents Gave Me A Bunch Of Silver Coins!

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 Posted 02/24/2008  2:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Rainman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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 .

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 Posted 02/24/2008  11:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add karrlot to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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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 Posted 02/24/2008  11:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add of-grampa to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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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