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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 1654864, member: 19122&quot;]I got a story. My father collected coins, and would show me them sometimes, my parents had split up so I saw my father every other week or so growing up. I was going into the Navy and living at home, my job was a three block walk to work, working ot and only having to pay 20 a week room and board, no car, no gf, so more cash then sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went to a coin shop and bought 4 saints for 83 dollars each. I took them out of their little cardboard holders and carried them in my pocket. I visited my dad a few weeks before I was to enter the Navy and pulled them out of my pocket to show them off.</p><p><br /></p><p>He about freaked out that I was carrying them around loose like that, he showed me all the little dings that came from my pocketpieces bumping each other.</p><p><br /></p><p>So he took them and wrapped them in foil and held them for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I forgot all about them, left the Navy, went to school, got married and got a job, we were having our second child and my wife was to be off work for a while, my job was not enough and she was thinking about asking her parents for some help. Then I remembered the coins, went and got them from dad and sold them, (it was early 1980) I got 2300 for them, we did not have to ask assistance from the folks, and today my daughter has given me a grandchild.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still sort of wish that I had found some other way to get cash, still have not replaced them, but who knows maybe someday I will replace them.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I do chances are I will not be carrying them loose in my pocket.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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