Ever Come Across A Coin That Brings Back Memories For You.

I was going through my misc foreign coin cup (it is a holder for silver rounds) and I came across two slab Buffalo nickels and a slab V nickel. Back when I was a much heavier collector about a decade ago I would go to the local coin shop ran by the nicest most honest man you would ever meet. He would always throw those totally worn down coins in with purchases for fun (I remember once he gave me a Star Wars Laserdisk that someone had wanted to get rid of knowing I was a huge Star Wars fan).

Sometime when I was in college like 2002 or 2003 someone robbed his store and as they were leaving shot and killed him. I remember I had actually been in the store that very morning like 3 hours earlier. Seeing those coins made me think of that extremely nice and wonderful dealer.

I have been going back to the shop lately again and its run by I think by his mother in law and its just not the same as she does have the charisma or his joy he had.

The coins aren't worth much if anything at all (you can't even read the dates on the Buffalos) but it just reminded me of that wonderful dealer from so many years ago. I remember he used to give those worn coins to kids too just so they could have something fun and interesting.