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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus87, post: 3272763, member: 96372&quot;]When I was c. 10-11 yrs old, my mother showed me an obviously heavy and grimy old canvas sack and wondered if if I would like to have what was in it. When I asked what it was, she said “here” and dropped it into my hands.&nbsp; And I said “oof” or something like that &amp; sat on the floor to look.</p><p>What it was were close to nine hundred copper-nickel IH cents plus some dozens of flying eagle pennies!&nbsp; They came, she told me, from her father’s family business: a once-thriving wholesale wine &amp; liquor warehouse (with a flourishing saloon and, yes, a free lunch counter) out front.&nbsp; Grandpa would save all the CN’s he came across, and this was his stash.&nbsp; Almost all were in miserable shape, of course and I got rid of most through the years.&nbsp; But there was an 1861 (!) in AU55 which is still in </p><p>my Dansco..... and THAT one is officially my first coin.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; D.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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