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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LakeEffect, post: 3917060, member: 43201&quot;]I don&#039;t mean to hijack the thread, but Gimbels was a successful department store chain for most of the 20th century. I remember them from my youth growing up in Connecticut in the 1960&#039;s. At one time, they were a major rival of Macy&#039;s in NYC. They went out of business around 1987.</p><p><br /></p><p>It wasn&#039;t uncommon for department stores to have a small coin department. Your coins are from a Gimbels store in the Pittsburgh area, a market they entered in 1925. Obviously, (as already pointed out) they created the packaging.</p><p><br /></p><p>A little trivia that everyone probably already knew. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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