Last night I went to the monthly meeting of my local coin club and I met a gentleman that, some years ago, had inherited some coins from his grandfather. He knows almost nothing about coins and

was looking for someone to help sort and catalog what he has. I told him that I would be happy to help him and boy am I glad that I did! Now you have to remember that I am a man of somewhat limited means financially so I don't have the opportunity to see coins like these very often. I certainly can't afford many of them. This guy has some real gems. I got to actually hold a 1796 and a 1799 Draped Bust Dollar(s). He's got some really high grade seated coins as well as some very nice Bust coins. He's got hundreds of coins and I just did the first part of them tonight which included an AU 58 1833 1/2 Cent, an Unc. 1864 Lg Motto 2 cent piece, an VF 1858-D $1 gold piece and an 1853 US Assay Office $20 Gold Piece. He is going to come back Sunday so that we can go through some more. I feel as giddy as a school boy after his first kiss! Now, I understand that many of these coins need to be authenticated and graded but considering that these coins have been in his family for several generations, I think that there is a better than average chance that most of them are genuine. We'll soon see. After I catalog everything we will be sending in the better coins to be graded and/or anthenticated but, for now, what a blast!