A Very "Thankful Thursday!". What are you Thankful for?

Hello all. Hope all is well with you. This is a thread about being thankful for anything that is Coin or Currency related. I started this thread also to let you all know that if it wasn't for this website, I'd probably be just metal detecting occasionally or something else. I want to especially thank all those that contributed to both the "Secret Santa" and the contests that go on here. Also, to those that have given me more to add to my collection of coins and currency, and I have quite the variation of them.
Here are just a few examples of the tiny, the bold, the counterstruck and the old......

 

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Great topic Sal, thank you!

I am thankful for the Whitman Company. My first exposure to coin collecting was seeing my father's and grandmother's little collections which consisted of a lot of 2x2s and a couple of old blue Whitman folders when I was 5 or 6 years old. A couple of years later my mother got me to open my first savings account (the local bank was offering a new toaster to any current customer that brought a new customer to the bank, and she wanted one!), and after handing over $10 to the teller he gave me a brand-new Lincoln cent folder and a shiny new penny to start off with.

Many years later I took a lot of what I had collected and broke it up and created little collections for each of my nephews and nieces, and that folder went to my oldest nephew.

 

I got this back in the 40's. It is covered with tape. I thank my wife for insisting that I keep it just as is. I was tempted to replace it with a modern one.

 

I’m thankful that in my retirement I have money enough to support my coin collection habit. I find it very addictive. Lol

 

True. I'm also thankful that I can participate in the Hobby of Kings, even if on a pauper level. I'm thankful for the coins given to me by my grandfather, without which I probably would never have found an interest in it.

Repeats (many times over) but everybody likes pictures.

 

I'm thankful I have a few "words for buttocks."

Can we share these words here, Admins?

Actually, I'm thankful for lots of unexplored topics in numismatics to write about.