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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 404038, member: 5233"]OK, this has been fun so far...some very nice stories. So, here is another from me. It's not as good as the first one (I think that's the best one I got), but it was heart warming and a nice gift.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, back in the spring of 1999 I was a freshman in high school. Two years before I had the opportunity to travel to Washington DC on a trip with my middle school. Now, two years later that same school was going back to DC and my sister was part of that trip as a 7th grader. I was invited to go again with that school because of my sister being on the trip and none of the faculty going this time had ever been to DC. So, I happily got to make a second trip.</p><p><br /></p><p>We visited DC and various places in Virginia for about a week. Early in the trip one place we stopped was Mount Vernon...the home of George Washington. While there, we all stopped by the gift shop to buy a thing or two as a souvenir...I think I bought a T-shirt. My sister has never been someone to really buy much for herself...so she went through the various gift shops during the trip and bought stuff for her friends and family (she probably got 2 or 3 little things for herself the whole week). </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, while at Mount Vernon, she spotted a little glass case in the back full of various coins. She knew I had been collecting for a couple years and wanted to get something for me (I had no idea she was doing it). She knew that my oldest coin was in the 1810s...so she wanted something older than that. So, she spotted an 1769 Irish Half Penny in the case and thought it was perfect. Knowing I didn't have any 18th century coins and that we have a strong Irish background she bought it. I'm sure she paid a bit more for it than it was actually worth since she bought it at a tourist gift shop (she probably knew it too)...but it didn't matter. It as an awesome gift that I really loved. And, to this day I still have it and it's still the oldest non-ancient coin in my collection (my only ancients being 2 very corroded Roman coins).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/RichieB16/1769IrishHalfPennysmall.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 404038, member: 5233"]OK, this has been fun so far...some very nice stories. So, here is another from me. It's not as good as the first one (I think that's the best one I got), but it was heart warming and a nice gift. Anyway, back in the spring of 1999 I was a freshman in high school. Two years before I had the opportunity to travel to Washington DC on a trip with my middle school. Now, two years later that same school was going back to DC and my sister was part of that trip as a 7th grader. I was invited to go again with that school because of my sister being on the trip and none of the faculty going this time had ever been to DC. So, I happily got to make a second trip. We visited DC and various places in Virginia for about a week. Early in the trip one place we stopped was Mount Vernon...the home of George Washington. While there, we all stopped by the gift shop to buy a thing or two as a souvenir...I think I bought a T-shirt. My sister has never been someone to really buy much for herself...so she went through the various gift shops during the trip and bought stuff for her friends and family (she probably got 2 or 3 little things for herself the whole week). Anyway, while at Mount Vernon, she spotted a little glass case in the back full of various coins. She knew I had been collecting for a couple years and wanted to get something for me (I had no idea she was doing it). She knew that my oldest coin was in the 1810s...so she wanted something older than that. So, she spotted an 1769 Irish Half Penny in the case and thought it was perfect. Knowing I didn't have any 18th century coins and that we have a strong Irish background she bought it. I'm sure she paid a bit more for it than it was actually worth since she bought it at a tourist gift shop (she probably knew it too)...but it didn't matter. It as an awesome gift that I really loved. And, to this day I still have it and it's still the oldest non-ancient coin in my collection (my only ancients being 2 very corroded Roman coins). [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/RichieB16/1769IrishHalfPennysmall.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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