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You’re killing me. 👍

I went back up and checked, yep it says “ For the love of Silver”. Evidently the love of silver makes a person collect all kinds of things, even an ugly old coin like this WW1 1914 25 cent piece minted pretty close to the center of all the destruction that took place in that war. Gotta love silver quite a bit to hang on to the junk silver box you’ve had for over 40 years,

You gotta love silver to hang on to a coin for 40 years?

For my whole life, that I can remember, my mother had some coins stashed away in her cedar chest. I loved it even when I got older when she would unlock her cedar chest to reminisce on the items she had been able to keep for herself even through tough times. She was born in 1921. I started hanging around in 54. I remember the smell of the cedar, the handmade frames on her pictures, a what seemed to be giant raccoon coat and of course her coins. There were only a dozen or so but each one had a story. As the years went by she pretty much divided every thing out to which ever grandchild she wanted to please. She was a giver. one day by surprise, she handed me the last coin left of her collection and told me to hang on to it and give it to which ever grand child of all the grand children I thought would pass it on to a future Grandchild. I still have it. And will soon be handing it out. It was an 1838 large cent her grandfather had given to her when she was very young. I am fairly certain to not have a coin or two stashed away somewhere for whatever reason has never not been part of my life.

This is the next gift set going together. Just having trouble deciding which of their twin sisters to part with. Abe made it through with no problem, but the ladies are being a little stubborn. Lol

This is a set I put together using two of DB’s rounds as a gift for a friend.

Much appreciated…..

In all due respects to Tridmn, we’ve all been a mark somewhere, sometime, someway; 🤔 I don’t drink often, but when I do I hang out at the casino looking for the Morgan guy. A mark is a mark is a mark?

I resemble the “I had to have it”. Good hunting.

It is pretty amazing what your Christmas quarter really means to so many. Thanks again.!

Magical, !! To only imagine if you can what endeavoring to persevere with what little they had, how every coin made it’s mark in survival. I love a beautiful graded coin, and in these days certification that it is not counterfeit is a bonus to the collection. But, you can’t compare the history of circulated coins, the collectibility, survival and worn beauty to a coin that has never traveled through time, but only from the mint to your safe.

It reminds me of the story of why many old coins that no one wants had holes drilled through them. I always wondered what kind of clothing/jacket or petticoat etc. and for what reasons were these old coins sewn to it.

Yes, and so do I. Thank you

Continue on, thanks for sharing.

What years are you looking for, I’d be glad to keep an eye open

I agree, a fitting tribute! I showed this to my wife, she loved it. Her father was a prisoner of war in Korea and made it home but was blind from malnutrition.

Again my point was, and thank you for noticing, what one person might think is junk is another person’s treasure. And so it goes with collecting, anything!

Very fond memory for me while growing up. I was 10 when he got them. The package has been around for quite some time and Taking a quick picture through the hard plastic containment they are in does not do them justice. Thanks

Yeh, I would arrange a little differently but did not want to break the vacuum seal on this set.

Maybe something like this?

According to the Gates history on these, they are real, not replicas but they were cleaned before being encapsulated for the award.

Excellent projects, merry Christmas

I posted this in the “for the love of silver” thread. With all the conversations of what where how and why people have collections I thought I would share this. My dad got these from the gates mystery man in 1965 at a gas station he owned. The package is sealed and original. I thought many times since he gave them to me for safe keeping in 1999 that I should take them from the package, have them graded and packaged individually but always convinced myself they were much more valuable to me knowing the whole story behind them in the original package they were given to him in.