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<p>[QUOTE="David Setree Rare Coins, post: 2426661, member: 74719"]Oh geesh. That was the best part of the story and I forgot to even tell it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can home from a shoot (I was a reporter for an NBC affiliate on the side back then) and my wife said "Matt has something to tell you papa, go ahead Matt." And my little boy showed me that he stood the glass on end and tapped it with his closed Boy Scout knife until it shattered into a million sharp, little pieces. My shame is that I yelled at him for ruining it and made him cry. (he's 34 now and I still recall that with guilty feelings). I then checked it out with a 16X glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since it was out and miraculously unharmed, we decided to try this newfangled grading company. I hadn't yet dreamed of owning a personal computer yet so went to Coin World to find the nearest submitter and he was in State College Pennsylvania. a place where we once lived after we went to school there and still loved to visit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="David Setree Rare Coins, post: 2426661, member: 74719"]Oh geesh. That was the best part of the story and I forgot to even tell it. I can home from a shoot (I was a reporter for an NBC affiliate on the side back then) and my wife said "Matt has something to tell you papa, go ahead Matt." And my little boy showed me that he stood the glass on end and tapped it with his closed Boy Scout knife until it shattered into a million sharp, little pieces. My shame is that I yelled at him for ruining it and made him cry. (he's 34 now and I still recall that with guilty feelings). I then checked it out with a 16X glass. Since it was out and miraculously unharmed, we decided to try this newfangled grading company. I hadn't yet dreamed of owning a personal computer yet so went to Coin World to find the nearest submitter and he was in State College Pennsylvania. a place where we once lived after we went to school there and still loved to visit.[/QUOTE]
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