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Message:: [QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 668495, member: 19250"]Twiggs as a Jefferson nickel collector..I can honestly say this poor guy was "rode hard and put away wet!" That to me is so hard to understand at times how a coin only a few years old can look so SAD/BAD and others over 100's of years old look like they just were coined! But to me that another reason I have always enjoyed coin collecting each coin has a story/history. I think it would be wild to be able to track a coin if you could. Like the difference between a Morgan silver dollar and a Peace silver dollar. Back in the day a Morgan was given as a gift "for a birthday etc. they were put away and taken care of ....as to the Peace dollar were more used as what they were minted for Money! Plus the difference the strikes between the two ...with a Pece dollar being minted with a softer strike . When ever I get a new coin like a silver dollar or lets say a 8 reale I often wonder where it's been in its life time. One of my favorite coins in my collection is a worned 1812 bust half dollar. It came from my father who worked in the Federal Reserve Bank in Balto. Md. What makes this coin so speical to me is this...the date 1812 was the same year Francis Scott Key wrote our national athem...here in Baltimore! everytime I look at this coin I wonder who's pocket it was in before my dad got it.[/QUOTE]