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<p>[QUOTE="ksmooter61, post: 26403140, member: 169607"]Great topic Sal, thank you! </p><p><br /></p><p>I am thankful for the Whitman Company. My first exposure to coin collecting was seeing my father's and grandmother's little collections which consisted of a lot of 2x2s and a couple of old blue Whitman folders when I was 5 or 6 years old. A couple of years later my mother got me to open my first savings account <i>(the local bank was offering a new toaster to any current customer that brought a new customer to the bank, and she wanted one!)</i>, and after handing over $10 to the teller he gave me a brand-new Lincoln cent folder and a shiny new penny to start off with. </p><p><br /></p><p>Many years later I took a lot of what I had collected and broke it up and created little collections for each of my nephews and nieces, and that folder went to my oldest nephew.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1684552[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ksmooter61, post: 26403140, member: 169607"]Great topic Sal, thank you! I am thankful for the Whitman Company. My first exposure to coin collecting was seeing my father's and grandmother's little collections which consisted of a lot of 2x2s and a couple of old blue Whitman folders when I was 5 or 6 years old. A couple of years later my mother got me to open my first savings account [I](the local bank was offering a new toaster to any current customer that brought a new customer to the bank, and she wanted one!)[/I], and after handing over $10 to the teller he gave me a brand-new Lincoln cent folder and a shiny new penny to start off with. Many years later I took a lot of what I had collected and broke it up and created little collections for each of my nephews and nieces, and that folder went to my oldest nephew. [ATTACH=full]1684552[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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