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What coins do you own that you would say, have the most sentimental value? For me, it's an S mint Walking Liberty half dollar from 42, my grandfathers dad carried it through WW2, and then my grandfather passed it on to me. It's a pretty nice coin,and while it probably isn't worth much, it holds a lot of sentimental value. |
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Not a coin but a bill. A phillipines 5 peso short snorter that my father carried with him through his service in WW2 with the Army 1st Cavalry Division. He wrote on the bill the places he saw combat in WW2, also has other fellow soldiers signatures on it.
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07/07/2015 9:46 pm
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The 1867 dime that I found in my backyard when I was 12, almost 50 years ago.
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I have an 1857-O Seated Liberty dime that my grandfather gave me shortly before he died in 1974. I have a 1973 Mint Set that my dad bought and gave me; these are in my 7070 now. |
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A corroded 1847 large cent. It was my first large cent and one of my first coins in my collection. I got it in a little coin shop in Helen, GA when I was in Helen treasure hunting with my dad. It was a great day that will remain in my favorite memories.
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Not coins but gambling tokens from Las Vegas. Lots of memories through the years.
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A 1919 S penny. I found it on my floor when I was much younger a little after my dad first introduced me to coin collecting. I had him clean it (after him lecturing me for hours on why he very much didn't want to do it...it adds to the sentimental value now though) and he put it in a 2X2 for me.
It is probably the very first coin I was absolutely ecstatic about and one of the few things that tied me and my dad together. It and him are the reasons I started collecting.
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I've actually got quite a list of coins with sentimental value. Many have been gifts, coins left to me by relatives, the first of a type of coin I've gotten or just a coin that has a great story behind it on how I got it. Every coin my wife has gotten me also carries this value and I'll never part with them. Sentimental value is a good portion of why my collection is special to me and part of why I collect :)
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I've actually got quite a list of coins with sentimental value. Same here. Some - like the 1874 British penny that started my collection - are still part of my mainstream collection. Others, such as a very worn 1797 penny given to me by my great-aunt many years ago, are purely kept for sentimental reasons. Anyone seen the film "Throw Momma from the Train" when the autistic guy shows the other man his coin collection, which consists purely of coins kept for sentimental reasons? I guess my equivalent is a 1979 UK penny that was given to me by a really good-looking girl at college in 1980 when she repaid me a pound I'd lent her in loose change! |
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That would amount to hundreds of coins for me. My dug Morgan and holed Peace dollar both have a story to tell, dozens of dug Barbers, Walkers and Franklins and several seateds, I remember where each one was found. The many other old coins, they all have sentimental value to me and I have plans to never sell. When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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When I was about 15 my uncle gave me a 1905-O Barber half dollar. So as a non collector at that time I wanted to find out information on the coin he gave me. When I saw the mintage on the 05-O (505,000) compared to other dates, that were in the millions, I instantly be came a coin collector. been collecting ever since minus a long break from 1989-2010. In the last 5 years I have been going hog wild back into the hobby. |
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1896-P Morgan dollar placed under my Grandma's bassinet mattress upon her birth in 1896. Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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There are a few. When I was born a coworker of my parent's got me a small gold piece, and my grandmother from San Francisco got me a Morgan silver dollar, minted there 100 years earlier. Of the ones since then the slot token I have from the Red Lion Hotel sticks out in my mind. My parents and I stopped there when I was young and we were moving back East by truck from San Francisco. Though that's hardly it I also enjoy the challenge coin my Venture Scout troop had made. |
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