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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4938336, member: 10461"]When I was a kid and first started collecting on Thanksgiving Day of 1976, I was at my grandmother's house in Atlanta and found a 1936 dime in her sideboard while getting the silverware out to set the table. She gave it to me. I still have <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/1936-mercury-dime-first-in-my-childhood-collection-found-1976.6152/full?d=1493273228" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/1936-mercury-dime-first-in-my-childhood-collection-found-1976.6152/full?d=1493273228">that one</a>- my first collected coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there was also a warped and misshapen 1948 Franklin half dollar in the drawer, with a big ragged hole right through the middle of it. I would look at that coin as nothing but an undesirable piece of scrap silver nowadays, but Young Kid Me wanted it, back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grandmomma wouldn't give that one to me, though. It seems one of the uncles, years ago, had thrown it in the air and shot the hole in it with a rifle, Annie Oakley style, and it got kept as a souvenir.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4938336, member: 10461"]When I was a kid and first started collecting on Thanksgiving Day of 1976, I was at my grandmother's house in Atlanta and found a 1936 dime in her sideboard while getting the silverware out to set the table. She gave it to me. I still have [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/media/1936-mercury-dime-first-in-my-childhood-collection-found-1976.6152/full?d=1493273228']that one[/URL]- my first collected coin. But there was also a warped and misshapen 1948 Franklin half dollar in the drawer, with a big ragged hole right through the middle of it. I would look at that coin as nothing but an undesirable piece of scrap silver nowadays, but Young Kid Me wanted it, back then. Grandmomma wouldn't give that one to me, though. It seems one of the uncles, years ago, had thrown it in the air and shot the hole in it with a rifle, Annie Oakley style, and it got kept as a souvenir.[/QUOTE]
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