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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sam Stone, post: 4193925, member: 110020&quot;]I can&#039;t afford to throw Christmas candy from three years ago away. We have 2 scales. One is flat bed and digital (supposedly the better of the two), and one upright, &#039;analog&#039;. However, I just found out I made an unrelated, horrible mistake regarding the collection my father in law, a twenty year navy man, gave our son which has to take precedence. He gave it to our son two years ago, and we put it in the closet, and lost the disk with the details so it hasn&#039;t been touched since.</p><p><br /></p><p>We just found the many, many spreadsheets and I&#039;m unbelievably ashamed of myself for not being as grateful as I should have been. Our son is 19 and already a much greater person than I could ever hope to be. But I got put on disability and he has had to go to work to pay his own college. Between work, homework, and 15 credit hours at school he barely sees his friends with what little time he has left and coin collecting isn&#039;t on his radar right now. I started looking at collecting a few months ago for the wrong reasons (boredom and poverty) when I should have been spending time trying to understand what his grandfather gave him first. There&#039;s 7,041 coins from 185 countries, territories, etc. dating to the 1700&#039;s. There&#039;s 5 and 10 dollar gold pieces from the 1880&#039;s, and so much more that I want to go running out in front of the first truck that comes by.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really, really, really feel terrible that I have been so derelict as a father and son in law, but I owe you an answer for taking the time and interest in helping. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m going to go pull our son&#039;s coins out and find them a more respectful place of honor before I worry about whatever I may or may not have. For all I know, every coin my son and I have cumulatively may be the least valuable possible, but I&#039;m not so sure and I won&#039;t be disappointed if that&#039;s the case.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will still answer everything as soon as I can, and in the meantime I would be happy to send anyone interested the spreadsheet that details/totals coins from each country with dates in the collection. In fact, I definitely need input if anyone is willing to offer any. I&#039;ve only been thinking about collecting a few months and if not for the kindness in this forum I may have decided to do something else already, and I absolutely would not have gotten curious enough to go looking for those spreadsheets a little while ago. Another reason to be grateful. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you again. I appreciate your time and interest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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