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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;roymwr, post: 1391648, member: 35430&quot;][ATTACH]166191.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]166192.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>I am 41 years old now and new to collecting, although there has been a collection of sorts in the family for two previous decades. My mother is from the eastern hills of Kentucky and the youngest of 11 children. In 1973 my grandfather passed away, when I was three years old, and at his wake in the old homestead all my aunts and uncles were gathered. For some reason, I cant recall and my mother or father has no idea why, I began to go around the room selling kisses. I would kiss one of my aunts or uncles and they would give me a piece of change. As the night went on, I collected a small bag of odd coins. My dad had the coins he had collected and his father had collected, so he took copy paper and wrapped them all up and dated them with, &quot;Old man&#039;s wake&quot;, written on the paper (I still have those pieces of paper too)...When I was 17 I asked to see them and he let me go through them. Nothing special was in them, a few 64 quarters that I remember, but most were early 70s coins except this old Buffalo. I dont know which uncle or aunt gave me it and since then they have forgotten what they gave me. I put all the coins back in the collection of my fathers (that he has now passed down to me to organize) except this old Buffalo. It stays on my dresser or my work table where I clean my firearms after hunting (another pass time my dad &amp; uncles taught me about). This old Buffalo is not worth much to most, but to me when I hold it I can catch glimpses of that night and the fire, my aunts and uncles faces and the hints of laughter as I walked around the room collecting coins....not realizing that a little boy selling kisses made a night a little more bearable for some.....This is why I love Buffaloes I guess and I had the earlier questions about those Buffaloes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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