When we were kids, we lived in Tanzania in 1972 and The Bahamas in 1974. I added these two coins to my collection a few years ago, for purely sentimental reasons. Though each of them is worth less than five dollars numismatically, I spent nearly fifty dollars apiece to have them certified, just so I could add them to my (slabbed) collection. Each of these coins is from the same year we lived in those countries. For my birthday last December, my sister @Elizabeth Shamblin began building me a website, which was the best gift she could have given me. (As of this writing, that is still only in the earliest phase of development, if only because I have not yet gotten around to my share of the work.) As a token of gratitude, I bought a fancy presentation box for the two slabbed coins, printed and laminated a little sign to go inside, and passed them on to her.
That is very cool. She will love the thought that went into that..... I have a little leather ladies purse that came from my grandmas when she passed. It has a few pristine 64 JFK halves that I been thinking of doing something special with for the kids. ICG told me that they would make me a custom slab label proclaiming that they came from grandmas small collection. I think that sort of thing is very thoughtful.
That sounds interesting. I’ve been wondering what the minimum quantity for a custom slab label is. LMK how that goes. If we ever get our pre-FUN Saint Simons Island January gathering off the ground, I’d like to have custom commemorative slabs as gifts for the early attendees. Edit: autocorrect changed the word “custom” in my post above to “colostomy”, for some reason. Oops! We don’t want that! LOL
That sounds very cool and very thoughtful of you! It's great to tie it all together with the little notes! I'm not crying. You're crying!