2,000 Post Contest: Coins or Currency gifted out

This specific post is my 2,000 post on CoinTalk. :hail:

CONTEST GUIDELINES:Write down a brief story about a coin(s) or currency/note that you have gifted out. The story does not have to be a recent one - meaning you could have gifted the item out years ago. Describe why it was important to you and the recipient.

The contest is open until I make my 2012th post on CoinTalk - that means the contest closes after I have only made 12 more posts. I am real busy these days, so I think you will have some time to participate.

Please limit one story per post. Maximum of two posts please.

The Winner will be decided by reading the stories to my husband. Which ever one he thinks is the sweetest will win. I will decide on any tie breakers. Not sure what the prize will be yet. It will be up to the winner to take a pic and post if desired since I do not take pics.
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As an example, here is my story.

My husband's classmate (class of 1947) made a casual comment about his cent collection during his 55th high school reunion. He indicated that he was only 3 holes short of completing his collection (started in high school). All three needed coins were the steel cents (1943s). I happen to have all three of the cents - all in BU, maybe Mint State Condition. I mailed them to him. He was delighted. Weeks later, I received a very nice note stating that he was still looking for his folder to put them in. Overall, he was tickled. It was a little hard to let go of my best steel cents, but it felt like the right thing to do. It felt pretty awesome for just a moment or two to know that I could be part of finishing a nice fellow's life long collection. :yes:

Have fun and good luck!
Tess

 

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Mine isn't all sentimental and stuff. I bought a couple low grade Flying Eagle Cents, just for the specific purpose of gifting them to someone. A while later, I was at my local coin club, and saw a couple fellow YNs. I went up to them, individually, asking them what they would have paid for them, and told them they were theirs for free.

Thanks for the contest:thumb:

 

This year, a man on Ccf wanted some 1960's cents to finish his collection, I had about a thosand at the time so I didint mind sending him some, I felt good about it, though at the post office, it costed like four bucks, (a lot for me) and I ended up getting a 1961 d Franklin for face from the workers drawer, I still have that half, I plan on having it forever, no response, I was expecting one though.

 

Oh, and thanks for the contest!

 

Thanks for the contest!
I recently started reaching out to young numismatists in my area. I gave my fiancées little brother (he is 10) a 20 pocket page filled with coins it had a few Indian head cents, liberty nickels, Buffalo nickels and some wheat cents. I also gave him a couple of my coin folders I was no longer using and a Redbook. He was absolutely thrilled and is still Asiatic NT me questions about them and since then I have given him several other coins. I hope he continues to collect and learn about collecting as I did when I was his age.

 

I'm a yn, will you reach out to me?

 

My two nephews wanted to go "treasure hunting" with the metal detector. They are 7 & 8 years old. the 8 year old is autistic and I knew he wouldn't understand if we didn't find anything...so before we headed out in their front yard...I took two $1 Presidential Dollars and buried them in different places and marked them so I would remember where they were. Then we went out and Scott (the 8 year old) asked me, "K-Baby, where do we dig first?" I said, "Wherever the detector tells us." I pretended to turn it on and swept it back and forth until we got to where I marked where the coin was and officially turned it on then and his eyes lit up like it was Christmas morning! He immediately grabbed his little shovel and started digging. When he immediately found his "Gold Dollar Coin" he had a smile from ear to ear! He wanted to keep digging but I showed him the detector wasn't alarming and moved on to the next area and explained it was his brother's turn. Andy, the 7 year old, was just as excited! When he found his, Scot said, "Mom we have treasure all up in our front yard!" Scott had to take the coins to my Mom's house next door and tell her the story of how K-Baby helped him and Andy find them and that he was going to keep it "forever and ever." Several days later my sister looked in the front yard to find Scott digging hole after hole. She went out and told him to stop but he said, "Mom, I was hoping to find some more gold so I could buy a swimming pool." So to keep Scott from digging up the front yard, sister bought the swimming pool.

 

I'm a YN, just 15, and still trying to make my collection grow, but I am happy to say that I have received some very nice coins from people in this contest section of cointalk. Now, my cousin is 4 years younger then me and he just started collecting coins, he was trying to fill all the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, state quarter, and dollar books. I pulled together about $40 in 'harder to find' dates to fill his books, a bunch of S lincoln cents and a bunch of washington dollar coins that he had trouble finding. Even though he wasn't collecting the older coins I threw a couple of wheaties along with a nice standing liberty quarter, buffalo nickels and a morgan dollar. It was hard to let these things go because I had just started my own collection and they made up a decent part of my collection... But after I sent them to him I knew that i did the right thing. Now I have a large coin collection that I would have ever imagined, every cent that I have ever made I spent on coins. I hope that people might follow in my footsteps and let something go that is very close to them, even if it means letting something go that you know you will never see again...
-Kyle

 

WOW. The kids really scored. You gave the kids two bucks, and they ended up with a swimming pool. :thumb: I raise my thumb to you

 

I'm 30 yrs old. When i was about 7 i was at my grandfathers business when an old man gave me my first paper note. In fact i'm not sure if i was collecting coins so much as collecting money lol. This note was from the Philippines and dated i believe 1945. I always kept it and later put it in a plastic slip even though i knew it was practically worthless. Well last year my nephew (who is 8) was over and asking me all kinds of questions because he is kinda starting to collect coins now. So i was showing him a few things and saw that note. I decided to give it to him and let it breath new life into a young collector. He was so amazed and when i see him he almost always mentions that note. I hope that he keeps it for as long as i did and someday maybe that note will start its life over again.

 

I'm the second oldest in a family of four brothers and one sister but I'm the only one who seriously collects coins. I'm sort of the nerd/geek of the family haha My father got me started in collecting coins. He had started when he was young by collecting junk silver and when I expressed interest in the hobby he helped me out as much as possible. He gave me tons of coins and knowledge along with them. Occasionally he'll find me coins and give them to me. He's been doing this for years and I admire him so much.

My baby brother however (he's 8 now) has started following the same path that I did haha About a week ago we were at a book store and we were walking around the store together and we saw a section of coin collecting books and supplies. I picked up one for my Mercury Dimes and was about to leave but then my baby brother grabbed a lincoln cent book "1930-58". I remembered that he recently got a 1935 Lincoln cent from a coin store and was probably wanting to start a collection. So I grabbed that book for him too. When we got home I gave him the book as well as three rolls of Lincoln cents that I had lying around. I told him that all the coins that he could fit in the folder were his but that he would have to work on the rest of the folder himself. He spent the whole afternoon figuring out which coins went where, how rare they were, and which was the "best-looking" coins haha

He's still working on it today hahaha

 

Technically I didn't give it away so I guess I don't qualify
But I would have...
I'm not heartless you know.

Back story: A few moths ago my local teller asked if I'd like some dollars and half-dollars that were in back. I said sure, and got a loose bag for $67.
Maybe half the dollars were 1968-69 in UNC. And I decided to tuck one away in my wallet.

Story: Last month I went sailing on a schooner with lots of people (35ish). The youngest of which boasted at being eleven. As the captains boy he wasn't part of a watch.
But as it so happened he decided to join mine anyway. A few days in, my watch was sitting down for the soon to be served breakfast.
A nickel being present on the table, the boy decided to pass the time buy doing a magic trick with it. The trick however was unsuccessful and upon the claim that the coin needed to be larger I was reminded of the Dollar I had in my wallet.
So I decided to take it out an preform the classic "coin from behind the ear" trick. And so having done just that they boys eyes lit up and his magic performance was promptly forgotten.
As he thumbed it over we talked about coin collecting and I told him he could have the dollar for a dollar. He responded that it was worth way more. That's OK says I, you can have it for a dollar.
He looks a bit dejected when he says he doesn't have a dollar. So I tell him he can hang on to it anywhere.
Cant say I'm savvy to how he got a dollar. I do know he was bartering with others and that it was with candy... or maybe for candy.
But a few days latter he comes up to me with a dollar.
Over the course of the trip I'd on occasion see him pull the coin out of his pocket and rub his fingers over it.

Reminds me of how pleased I was to received my first such dollar (as change from a coin shop after being mistakenly overcharged).

 

Question: did the kid try to buy candy with the dollar coin you had given him?

 

Around 1966 when silver was not as valuable, I had excess to many silver dollars from Las Vegas. A co-worker asked if I had any siver dollars to which I promply replied that I had several and would bring them in for him. I don't know if he was a collector or just betting on the rise of silver, but it made no difference to me at the time. Since he worked in a different department from me, I would often just leave a silver dollar in a drawer of his desk and never asked for an exchange. I suppose he is now retired, and if he saved the silver dollars he will be well off.

 

Well, how many did you give him, and how many did you have, did you save yours?

 

Thanks for the contest!

An old family friend has three children that were wanting to get into coin collecting. They each had a set of Lincoln cent folders and had begun filling holes. I took my hoard of Lincoln cents (5 gallon bucket full) to them and said if there is anything in here that will fill your folders, you can keep it. I also gave them each a complete circulated set of Jefferson nickels, Morgan dollar,and a set of BU state quarters. I am still a nickel short of having a complete set of Jeffersons and i have no more morgans. But seeing those kids faces made my heart smile more than a whole roll of Morgan dollars could. They were so excited. I was bombarded with hugs and kisses and questions. When they come over to the house they always bring their folders to show me their progress and I give them each a coin or two to help them out.

 

I'm only 10 years old. My brother and I love to coin collect. One day (Sept 21, 2011) My dad died. We were having a benifet dinner for him, because he had cancer and was unable to work. My mom is real bad in debt. We had the benefit and i made $140. I took $50 of it and put it on a pre-paid card. My brother loves wheat pennies and he had very, very few. I bought him a full roll of pennies for christmas. I bought 3 merc-dimes. And 5 buffalos. I hid them for awhile. Christmas morning came and he found his gifts. We was so surpised he almost was in tears. He went through the roll and found about 10 teens. 10 20's and 40 30's. The oldest was a 1909-p VDB In G7 Condition. I told him he has the oldest wheat penny in the world. I also told him he had one and I didn't. Which was true. As soon as he heard the word OLDEST WHEAT he jumped. I told him it was 102 years old. I still to this day do not have a 1909. He still thanks me everyday for his coins.

 

Thats touching, I'm a yn, 12 years old

 

Keep the stories coming in. I have a first and second place prize in mind. Searching for a third place prize.

 

Update: busy with a funeral (not immediate family). The contest is still open. Write on your best memories on coins/currency gifted out.