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Message:: [QUOTE="Jim Dale, post: 3699687, member: 100459"]I talked about the source of my coin collections earlier. I wasn't really interested until my father was killed in an automobile collision.  He was my age when he was killed. My mother did not know that much about my father's collection, until she read my father's will.  His coin collection was left to me and my brother.  She was not interested in his hobby, but would not distribute his coin collection and many other things he had until she died about 10 years later. My sister had been very good at caring for her and when she passed, she told me to divide it equitably. I had no idea of the value and importance until it was thrust into my hands. My brother was even worse. He was only interested in building model cars, so he asked me to divvy it up. It was then that I had a great appreciation for my father and his hobby. He was in the Navy serving in a submarine in the South Pacific as "doc" (corpsman?). Since then, I have surfed the 'net and found out a lot of what my father's hobby meant to him. I have a coin that I still can't figure out what it is. I'll get to it later. I like many other grandfathers, I have 11 grandchildren, not interested. (By the way, I'm looking for cheap Indian head cents.. 1971, 1972 and 1977) Thank you young people (youth is under 70 now).  Keep "our" hobby goind.[/QUOTE]