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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1862858, member: 5233&quot;]We all have coins in our collections that have special meaning...that are worth more to us than their actual value.&nbsp; They might be a key coin or a common; circulated or MS.&nbsp; But, behind them is a special story.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought it would be fun to share such coins with each other.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few coins like this, but I will start with one that comes to mind.&nbsp; Maybe I will add others later.&nbsp; But, let&#039;s hear about yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll start out by telling a little story.&nbsp; When I was a kid, I was really into football and baseball card collecting (to a certain degree, I still am).&nbsp; But, I never really considered coins.&nbsp; Then, one day my dad was going through his large gun safe looking for a document of some kind, and he sat a small stack of blue books on the desk.&nbsp; Well, I started to look through them.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were old Whitman coin folders.&nbsp; I was probably 10 at the time, and had never seen these before.&nbsp; My dad told me he had collected when he was a kid in the 1960s...when he went into the Army in the mid-60s he stopped collecting and never really picked it back up.&nbsp; I was fascinated by the history in these books...especially by the 1943 steel cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was so interested, I decided to start my own little collection.&nbsp; My dad bought me the 3 folder Whitman Lincoln Cent set and I started filling it up.&nbsp; We found a little coin shop in town that I would visit and I started to collect other types...but I kept working on that Lincoln set.&nbsp; At some point, when I was in high school...I almost finished the set.&nbsp; I was only missing one coin...that 1909-S VDB.&nbsp; But, Lincoln&#039;s weren&#039;t my only interest at the time.&nbsp; I had a girlfriend, was playing sports and I was collecting other types (Lincoln&#039;s aren&#039;t/weren&#039;t even my favorite coin).&nbsp; So, that one hole in the book never got filled.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I grew up and went to college.&nbsp; I still collected but not as much because life was so&nbsp; busy.&nbsp; I found CT along the way...still never getting that 1909-S VDB.&nbsp; I went to dental school and still no 1909-S VDB.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I got married while in dental school and at the reception I was talking to my dad and he said he had really wanted to get me an 1909-S VDB Lincoln as a present, but he just didn&#039;t have the money.&nbsp; He said he had went and looked at a few at a local dealer but just couldn&#039;t afford one.&nbsp; I was really surprised that that was the gift he wanted to give me.&nbsp; We hadn&#039;t talked about Lincoln&#039;s in years...but I guess there was just something special about the coin to both of us.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, almost two years later...my 28th birthday rolled around last May.&nbsp; My parents were passing through town (my siblings and I had all bought them an Alaskan Cruise as a Christmas present) and they were heading up to Seattle to get on the ship.&nbsp; They stopped by my apartment with a birthday present for me.&nbsp; I opened it...and found this:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://s17.photobucket.com/user/RichieB16/media/1909svdbobv_zps44d4db2c.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s17.photobucket.com/user/RichieB16/media/1909svdbobv_zps44d4db2c.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/RichieB16/1909svdbobv_zps44d4db2c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://s17.photobucket.com/user/RichieB16/media/1909svdbrev_zps5648e387.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s17.photobucket.com/user/RichieB16/media/1909svdbrev_zps5648e387.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/RichieB16/1909svdbrev_zps5648e387.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>My dad had bought me a 1909-S VDB cent.&nbsp; These photos make the color look a little funny...but in hand it has a very nice natural brown color.&nbsp; The dealer (who is quite reputable) said it would grade nicely if I submitted it.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t yet, but I probably will at some point send it to PCGS.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s a very nice XF/AU range example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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