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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 6451142, member: 100459&quot;]<b>I, </b>liked your coins.&nbsp; Keep trucking, and you may find a neat coin in unusual places.&nbsp; I filled up with gas about a month ago, and I was given a 1964 Kennedy.&nbsp; It was obvious from his accent that he was from another country and knew what the coins are, but he didn&#039;t know the coin&#039;s significance.&nbsp; I never &quot;look a gift horse in the mouth&quot;.&nbsp; Should I have taken it back and explain the importance of the coin?&nbsp; I know that some coin collectors feel I was &quot;stealing&quot; from the man.&nbsp; What about the man that gave him the coin originally?&nbsp; How far back do you go to get the coin to the original owner.&nbsp; I know that when I stole a Morgan Dollar out of my mother&#039;s purse and went to a store downtown to buy all sorts of sweets.&nbsp; My father was in Korea and my mother and her 4 children were in a small town that was my mother&#039;s home town.</p><p>Anyway, my mother didn&#039;t miss the coin and I thought I was safe until the man from the store (who was my mother&#039;s former boyfriend) came to the house with the Morgan Dollar and returned it to her.&nbsp; After the man from the store left, my mother sent me to my bedroom.&nbsp; After about an hour (by the way, I was 13), my mother came to my room and sat on my bed and didn&#039;t say anything for a few minutes.&nbsp; Then she said words that I hated to hear.&nbsp; &quot;Jimmy, I thought your father and I taught you better than to steal.&nbsp; The coin was my Great grandfather&#039;s.&nbsp; When he died, the coin was given to my father, your grandfather, and when your grandfather died, it was given to me.&quot;&nbsp; Then she told me that I would have to work in the store after school, for four hours, to repay the money your theft was valued at.&nbsp; (I thought that was extreme, since I didn&#039;t get my booty, but I knew it was the wrong time to bring up that little tid-bit.&nbsp; I worked at the store for 4 hours each afternoon. </p><p>I had worked 4 hours for 5 days and I was given $5, which was 25 cents an hour for a total of $5.&nbsp; That was the most money I had ever had.&nbsp; (I worked for him for 20 hours at 25 cents an your until school was over.&nbsp; I paid 10 percent tithing to my church, $2 to my mother to help with the bills, $2 to savings, leaving me with 50 cents to do with whatever I wanted.&nbsp; With that 50 cents, I took my little brother to a drug store and each got a fountain soda, leaving me 10 cents to put in my sock that I keep my coins.&nbsp; I was broke again, but I always knew there was always next week. I did get 2 Buffalo Nickels, and I still have them.&nbsp; I am 73 and grew to appreciate my mother and her love.</p><p>I&#039;m sorry if I bored you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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