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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1427442, member: 31533&quot;]Dear Friends who cared about Koen and enjoyed his presence on this forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&nbsp; have talked to lucyray and we would like your help. Koen wanted to&nbsp; share his love of coin collecting with his children, and he actually was&nbsp; having some good father/son moments with the hobby, as I am told and&nbsp; understand. Koen can no longer share with his children in person. What&nbsp; remains of his collection will be held for the children, as their&nbsp; heritage. Koen&#039;s brother has said that he would like to do that. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&nbsp; think that the best course to honor Koen&#039;s memory would be to provide&nbsp; another historical coin or two for the collection that will eventually&nbsp; be passed on to those children and some coins the children can enjoy&nbsp; while they are young. The idea is two-fold, and any contributions for&nbsp; either of these will very much be appreciated, as a gesture by Koen&#039;s&nbsp; CoinTalk friends to help to keep his memory alive for his family, which&nbsp; includes them knowing of his interests and passions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will be&nbsp; collecting donations people are willing to give to me: the purpose will&nbsp; be to buy one or more coins. The coin I am looking to buy is a nice&nbsp; Morgan Dollar. I believe this to be the one that Koen was thinking of&nbsp; when he told his brother about a coin he wanted. Koen mentioned on one&nbsp; of his threads a PCGS graded Morgan Silver Dollar that he was attracted&nbsp; to, but since it was on eBay, by the time he could get the money for it,&nbsp; it would be gone. My goal is to get approximately 175.00 in total&nbsp; donations by May 16, at which time I will purchase a graded Morgan&nbsp; dollar to be sent for his children. Any monies not going directly to&nbsp; that will be used to buy an additional coin or two, likely silver coins&nbsp; of the 1800s that can be sent at the same time. </p><p><br /></p><p>In order to do&nbsp; this, I would like people here that are interested in contributing to PM&nbsp; me for my email to be used as the way to get the fund. There is no&nbsp; &quot;suggested&quot; amount to be given, and I don&#039;t want anyone to feel like&nbsp; they &quot;have to&quot;. You don&#039;t. But I would like to have you take part in&nbsp; having this goal of Koen&#039;s met. Additionally, by doing this via paypal,&nbsp; that ensures that I can provide anyone an accounting of any monies&nbsp; received for this purpose. There is a cut-off date for donations, which&nbsp; is May 16th. That is because I need the money in hand to make the&nbsp; purchase.</p><p><br /></p><p>Secondly, if you wish to honor Koen&#039;s memory in another&nbsp; way, lucyray will be the point person for that. Simply send US coins&nbsp; (common ones or even any one you would like for Koen&#039;s kids to have)&nbsp; like Koen got from several of us when he was alive. He really delighted&nbsp; in the random acts of kindness he received from CoinTalk members here.&nbsp; It can be even just one or two coins, like a couple states quarters or&nbsp; something. Koen kept a list in his postings of what he had, so if you&nbsp; want to try not to duplicate it, you can check there to see what he had.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Please PM lucyray for an address and get those letters or small&nbsp; packages out to her by May 20th. She will then, on May 26, mail me the&nbsp; items and I will then mail out everything to Herman, for Koen&#039;s kids.&nbsp; Understandably, the family is going through a lot, but Herman has said&nbsp; he wants to be able to share some with the kids. So if you choose to&nbsp; send a coin or two, please put down on paper a few points about the&nbsp; coin, so that Herman will know what it is, so that Herman can share with&nbsp; the children. </p><p><br /></p><p>Any packages to lucyray received after May 26th,&nbsp; will be returned to the sender. Any donations to the Morgan and other&nbsp; silver coins will be returned to the donor if received after May 16th.&nbsp; These cut-off dates are neccessary to be above-board in this, and I hope&nbsp; you agree. </p><p><br /></p><p>I will be contacting one or more dealers through&nbsp; CoinTalk or another forum, and hopefully be able to get a quality&nbsp; Morgan, so that the coin can be agreed on prior to the day donations&nbsp; close. That is the plan.</p><p><br /></p><p>This appeal does not preclude you doing&nbsp; some random act of kindness (numsimatically speaking) in Koen&#039;s or&nbsp; anyone else&#039;s honor - if you choose to. </p><p><br /></p><p>Please PM lucyray for&nbsp; her address if you want to send some coins of your choosing. Please PM&nbsp; me for my email address to use on PayPal for donations I will be using&nbsp; to purchase the Morgan. If any small funds remain after purchasing the&nbsp; Morgan and other silver coins, as appropriate, it will be used to cover&nbsp; some of the postage to Belgium for the package. </p><p><br /></p><p>The plan is that&nbsp; coins (or other numismatic items) received by lucyray by the 26th of&nbsp; May will be sent to me by her, and will be combined with the purchases I&nbsp; make, and sent in one package to Herman to save and share with the&nbsp; children as they mature, as appropriate. My hope is that Koen&#039;s legacy&nbsp; to his kids include a love of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kasia</p><p><br /></p><p>This is being&nbsp; posted only on two posts: In Memory of Koen, and Accident. I may be&nbsp; PM&#039;ing people to see if they want to donate, but that will not be&nbsp; wide-spread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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