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Valued Member
 United States
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Pete, I may very well send you a few of these coins for a place on your tour bus :-). I'm quite jealous of your upcoming trip.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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So the moral of the story is to take up drinking and smoking everyday and you'll live to be 100.
The real moral is to keep your heirlooms. They may have monetary value but they have even more hereditary value. It's given me a new look at the coins that I have from my family. The circulation and wear that they have add character to the coin, but now also history. Thanks for posting your story, grancap74, as it's shed some new light on what I'm doing.
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Valued Member
United States
137 Posts |
My uncle worked in a grocery store when I was 8, and he would bring home older coins. That and my grandfathers collection got me started.
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Valued Member
United States
142 Posts |
My drug dealer neighbor got me started oddly enough. He was a nice person nontheless. I was over his house once, (NO, not for drugs), and he showed me his collection. He had a ms67 NGC CC Morgan that was priced at like 10,000. (don't remember the year but I'm sure someone here could narrow it down via price/ grade values). That blew me away that such a value could be associated with such an unimportant piece of silver. My interest/ collection began after that experience. That was about 5 years ago.
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Valued Member
United States
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That is a wonderful story grancap, I don't know how to articulate how it made me feel so I wont even bother trying.
My introduction to coins was much more mundane. My grandfathers would gather around a table to discuss and show off new acquisitions, I was about 7 and curious so I would wander over and they would include me, telling stories about where the coins were from and letting me hold some of them (probably the less expensive ones).
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Valued Member
United States
289 Posts |
Mindsets, I think that takes the prize so far from my viewpoint, as the most unusual way someone got into Numismatics.
Curious, what ever happened to the neighbor and his coin?
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Valued Member
United States
289 Posts |
Whywing, welcome to CCF. Sounds similar to how I started with Granfather. I'm glad you liked the story as I wasn't quite sure how it would take with some. My grandfather was the absolute opposite of being "politically correct" :-)
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Wow. Just wow. You have my fervent wishes for a speedy recovery. Never give up. Oh, and more pics!  |
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Australia
491 Posts |
It was King George V himself.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Grancap74!! Amazing story!! Thank you for posting this. I loved reading every word of it!!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Grancap74,
Wow.....what a story. THANK YOU for sharing. Please keep the pictures coming.
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