Post the coin, medal, paper currency, token that you inherited from a loved one

Dan, your coin was damaged after it left the mint. It is worth the regular value. The triangular cut is common for a pair of wire cutters, and the other could be pliers, vise , other tools unknown.

OK all, lets stop the back and forth. Dan can not start a thread until he has 10 regular posts. Dan calm down and read a lot of posts, it will help. Welcome to the forum, be productive. Jim

 

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Golly Dan, Steve was only explaining that Jason's post was about items from loved ones and I see no reason for such a response on your part....Could you please retract your comments in the form of an apology and be nice like a friend?
Few things upset Bud but this came close.

 

I'm not sure why the Morgan and Barber are showing up sideways and I can't figure how to fix it. They appear in the correct orientation in my library and viewers. So have some sideways images ;P. These are a few better dates which have been passed down to me:

 

Love your Barbers. But the love your post mostly because it tells me I am not the only person that gets bumfuzzled trying to figure out tech stuff that is typically simple for a teenager to do.

 

I posted this a few years ago, but it’s appropriate for this thread.

This coin was passed from my grandfather to my dad and then to me. I had it graded, mostly to preserve and properly protect it. It’s the most cherished coin in my collection.

 

Beautiful

 

Awesome, thanks for posting again!

 

That gold 5 looks much better than MS61,,

 

Thanks for the likes of my father's coin, like so many of his fellow Americans whose state's namesake battleships were attacked at Pearl Harbor, father joined the Navy in early '42 to avenge the attack on the U.S.S. Oklahoma BB-37 on Dec. 7. 429 "Okie" sailors died and the ship never recovered. I joined the Navy in Dec. '65 and was a Torpedoman's Mate serving aboard the U.S.S. Proteus AS-19, a Polaris submarine tender, ported in Apra Harbor, Guam, M.I. in 1966, when our ship's chaplain had two speakers one Sunday from the World Wide Christian Missionary Army Of Sky Pilots visit the ship's library. The library was standing room only. The first speaker was a squared jawed, no neck German fellow who was a Nazi bomber pilot shot down in Russia, rescued by locals and hidden from the Russian Army, saw the light and became a missionary in the South Pacific. He showed us an ornate dagger given him by Adolph when he was a young pilot. The other speaker was Mitsuo Fuchida, who organized and led the attack on Pearl Harbor, he fired the flare that started the attack and our entry into the war, sent the famous, Tora! Tora! Tora! message, figured out how to make the torpedoes run shallow in Pearl Harbor. He was a rock star back home and was wounded in the Battle of Midway and sent back to Japan as a Staff Officer. He missed the Hiroshima bomb by one day. After the bomb, he was ordered with a team to assess damage in Hiroshima and of the team, he was the only person to not die of radiation poisoning. War Crimes Tribunals came calling and he turned state's evidence on his co-conspirators and got a pass, in the process, found Jesus and went on a U.S. and world apology tour; which is why he was on my ship. All was going okay, until he wrapped up his talk with, "I was like you, a soldier, only following orders." Now, I wasn't alive in the 1850's old west, but I found out what a lynch mob smelled like that day.

 

Nolan..Not to defend Mitsuo Fuchida , but back in the day...had he not followed the orders he would have lost his head and they would have went to the next guy.
I also served in the Military and heard many stories from guys with what was called "TO-JOE CROWS", these were guys who were captured by Japan and served out much if not all of the War in a prison. Many of the stories would bring your blood to a high temperature and caused many bad feelings.
I had a neighbor who was in the first invasion force of US Marines on Tarawa and he hated Japan. Not thinking one day I invited him to view a Yamaha boat engine I had purchased, to the day he died he never walked into the area where I had the boat.
My friend died from cancer of the kidney due to being sent to Hiroshima as part of the occupation force after Japan surrendered.
From that day to this I have never knowingly purchased anything made in Japan.
Your Dad had to have been a brave man, because in 1942 the US was in bad shape because it's Military was lacking in almost every necessary item of war...but as the great country it is the people sprang into action and did what had to be done.

 

Nolan I wish to make a correction, the name I should have used to describe the US Prisoners of war was "TOJO CROWS", my mistake of many I will make today.

 

Being an only child, I cared for my father in his last twelve years, so I heard hundreds of stories from this time and to have heard Mr. Fuchida speak was an interesting add to the mix, I do not hold the Japanese people responsible for what their leaders did, but had difficulty with with Mr. Fuchida's fame based on his involvement in starting a war that killed millions, he got an audience with the Emperor after the attack, like a meet with God, but four years later, when the hangman beckoned, couldn't remember his name. When you are at the top of the food chain, you own what happens. Mr. Fuchida also led attacks on Australia and British Ceylon. I had a friend whose family spent the war in Manzanar near Bishop, Ca., one of the harshest places in America, so I heard that side of the story too. I shared the above account because this is where my father's old coin lead my memory train; I'll bet some of the other coins above have wonderful and happy connections.

 

Lots of ugly was that one

 

Why the 3rd person. Moderator!!!!!!!!

 

Bud told me not to do it Cheech...but being dumb...I did it.
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It is alright for those who want to speak directly at me, I was trying to offer a cautionary tail that unassuming looking men can drive the bus off a cliff; if you Google the fellow I mention, he looks to be out of central casting, very small guy and yet he started the event that brought us to use the atomic bomb and I was 19 years old and happened to hear him speak.
My wife and I are both Navy veterans of the Vietnam War and we get our health care from the great doctors and nurses at the VA; they have saved our lives numerous times in the past twenty years, the political nonsense aside they are the best. In the past ten years, when I go to the VA, I have seen the results of Afghanistan and Iraq in the beautiful men and women who have taken the brunt of bad ideas. The faces get younger and younger as mine gets older, their wounds will make you cry.
Recently, my sister in law's grand daughter joined the Navy and became a Sea Bee and is stationed in Sicily, so if Syria goes south, she will be in it, so we have yet another chip in the game.
If you have time, volunteer at the VA and keep an eye out for that unassuming person with a bad idea.

 

There are several threads here and on other forums discussing the rarity of women in numismatics.

My grandmother was a coin collector, of US cents, nickels, dimes, and a few other types.

In the late 1940's and early 1950's she would search coin rolls and managed to pull out a few rarities.

She left me, among other things, a partially complete Whitman Indian Cents album, including a 1908-S cent.


United States Indian Head Cent 1908-S

 

I have seen some of the BRAVE hero's Nolan and it doe's make me cry..

 

I knit. I make blankets and visit the VA During the buffalo winters. I bring along a few and give them to the first vets i see. Age means nothing. They all served. I lost my 1st husband to Vietnam. This pain hasn't left me yet

 

I see your point.