I told my 12 day old grand daughter about the new collection I started for her, but she was more interested in looking out the window.

As I wrote in my last entry. I Just started a 2006 mint set for my first grand-daughter. Several people here wrote and offered me their congrats. One member even offered to send a few coins to help out! I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and help with my newest set!

Before we went to visit my new grand-daughter we went to visit my mother-in-law. My wifes side of the family is first generation american from Poland. We had traditional Polish food, we broke the little bread and shared it with everyone in the room, giving them kisses and wishing them good fortune. I have no idea where the custom comes from but that and the white borsht is a regular christmas staple.

The exchange of gifts is a rather modest affair. The extravagance of an american style Christmas gift exchange is a truely FOREIGN concept to them. So when the time came to exchange presents it is typically low key.

As each person received their gift this year it was evident that everyone had given alot of thought to what they purchased as everyone seemed genuinely happy after revealing the surprise in there package. But no-one was as surprised as I was this christmas.

My mother-in-law handed me a small white box with a thin red ribbon tied around the width and length and fashoned into a bow. It took a while to pry off the ribbon and open the box. Inside the box was a little plastic bag with some white tissue paper inside. I removed the plastic bag and took out the white tissue. As I unfolded the white tissue I could see a yellow coin. At first I assumed it was one of the new "Dutch Gold" 2 zl polish coins that are as popular there as the statehood quarters are here. Upon closer inspection I read the date 1025 - 1925 and the denomination 20 zl and realized that this was a 20 zl gold coin from 1925. This period of polish history was the re-birth of the polish nation just before WW11.

I had prepared a polish signature set that I have not found any coins for yet for my mother-in-laws birth year of 1934. If you have ever seen the "Lady Liberty" 1934 10zl "silver dollar" it is a real beauty and much rarer than our peace dollars in high grade.

Because of the flexability of the signature sets it will be no problem to add this coin to the set I prepared.

Picture to follow grading and inclusion in the signature set