I’m sorry that it’s been a while since I have posted anything, but life has thrown some challenges my way and I’ve been spending my time dealing with these issues. Don’t you hate it when unexpected things happen to you?

Today I would like to write about a happy thing. The coin that I would like to talk about is a 1925D US $2.5 gold piece, i.e., a Quarter Eagle. I don’t have a good photo of this coin since my phone takes lousy coin pictures and it was slabbed before they starting showing the pictures of the graded coins.  Therefore, I have chosen to show pictures of some of my other US gold coins in the header.  My 1925D US $2.5 gold piece is graded AU58, so it isn’t a high grade coin, and it is also a pretty common coin. In fact, there are far more graded examples of this coin in the NGC census than for any other slabbed coin in my collection, but it has special significance to me, as I explain below. The NGC census statistics for this coin are:
1925D US $2.5 gold piece, NGC Census (Total = 22,825, Same grade = 1410, Better =  21,129)

I briefly wrote about this coin in my journal post titled “My Early Collecting Years,“ where I wrote 
“I first started collecting coins in the 1970’s when I was a teenager.  There are two things that sparked my interest in coins.  First, my father kept a few old coins in a steel Lincoln-head bank, and he used to occasionally take out these coins and show them to me. The second reason was a 1925D $2.5 gold coin that my grandparents received as a wedding gift. My father used to show me this coin during our yearly visits to my grandparents’ farm when I was very young. I had always wanted to buy a gold coin for my collection during my early collecting years, but I couldn’t afford one. Many years later, after my grandfather passed away, his gold coin was one of the main things that my father chose to inherit when my grandparents’ estate was divided up among their kids.”

The person who gave this coin to my grandparents probably went to a local bank and asked for a Quarter Eagle gold piece that had the year of their wedding on it.  That’s probably why it was graded circulated  AU58.

Now for the reason for this post. My son will be getting married soon and I thought that I would keep the tradition alive by passing this special coin on to him as part of his wedding gift. I think it’s neat that he will be receiving this as a wedding gift 99 years after my grandparents received it as a wedding present. Maybe I should tell him to wait a few months to get married so wedding is on the 100 year anniversary? Lol
My grandfather must have thought that this coin was special because he enjoyed showing it to me and he kept the coin for the rest of his life. My father also thought it was special because he chose to inherit this from my grandfather’s estate when he passed away. In turn, I purchased this coin from my mother when my father passed away. Therefore, I’ve decided to use this as an opportunity to share this family heirloom with my son so that I can help foster my love for coins with him. 

Do any of you have any special coins that remind you of those that you love?