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<p>[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 8179466, member: 105571"]I was going through some old stuff today and found two 1962 Canadian silver dollars that I had put away when I was 8 or 10 years old. At that time, my father commanded a USAF refueling squadron at Fort Churchill, Manitoba. We spent two of the best years of my life up there. They made me learn French - it didn't stick. I saw wild polar bears often, marveled at the aurora borealis, and played inside the carcasses of dead whales that washed up on the shore. For a ten-year old boy who was free range, it was paradise.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those dollars still have mint luster but they are heavily toned from being in paper coin envelopes for 60 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 8179466, member: 105571"]I was going through some old stuff today and found two 1962 Canadian silver dollars that I had put away when I was 8 or 10 years old. At that time, my father commanded a USAF refueling squadron at Fort Churchill, Manitoba. We spent two of the best years of my life up there. They made me learn French - it didn't stick. I saw wild polar bears often, marveled at the aurora borealis, and played inside the carcasses of dead whales that washed up on the shore. For a ten-year old boy who was free range, it was paradise. Those dollars still have mint luster but they are heavily toned from being in paper coin envelopes for 60 years.[/QUOTE]
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