First one to start the new year

Season's greetings everyone,

Well, last evening I decided to get an early start on the new year and I filled out the forms to submit 2 more rounds of coins for grading. An Early Bird submission and a Modern submission. Between the 2 submissions are more Franklin proofs (I can't seem to get enough, ) and some really sweet Lincoln proofs for my Abe's Red Hots collection. Included in my Early Bird submission is a really nice and well defined MS Lincoln 1909 VDB penny.

I have been asked by a few about the name of my Lincoln collection (Abe's Red Hots) When I set up this collection and when it came time to put a monikor on it, that name just came into my thoughts. I live in the city where the University of Illinois is located and on campus back in the late 60's and early 70's there used to be this small business on Green Street. (Green Street is the main drag through campus town) That business had the absolute best hot dogs you could imagine. Of course the name of the business was Abe's Red Hots. So I decided on using that name in memory of the many times we would stop in at Abe's to wind the evening down from bar hopping on campus and have an Abe's hotdog. Was so sad to see Abe's close up later on but it will always be one of those fond memory's of my younger, wilder days.

Mike

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