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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 24663149, member: 100459&quot;]My father served in the Navy during WWII in the South Pacific.&nbsp; He didn&#039;t talk much, but he did have some WWII era Japanese coins.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know their history, but they belonged to my father.&nbsp; After WW II, he was discharged and after a few months decided to join the Army.&nbsp; He was in the Medical Corps at Landstuhl, Germany from 1953 to 1957.&nbsp; I was 6 when we lived in Germany.&nbsp; We had a maid that was German.&nbsp; She wouldn&#039;t or couldn&#039;t talk about what was happening in Germany during WW II.&nbsp; She taught my brother and 2 sisters how to speak in German.&nbsp; We didn&#039;t really know that we were speaking German.&nbsp; That was me in the white T-shirt up front.&nbsp; As you can see, it was during Christmas 1954. My parents are in the back. My two sisters are behind me and my brother is in the far right.&nbsp; I enjoyed this Christmas more than any other Christmas that I had with my family.</p><p>Dad would not let me collect NAZI coins or anything else related to the NAZI period.</p><p>I built models when I was about 14.&nbsp; I used to build model airplanes. NAZI or WWII era Japanese were forbidden in our home.&nbsp; I had built a Japanese airplane while in German and stored it in my closet.&nbsp; When I came home from school close to Christmas, I was shown how serious my father was.&nbsp; I had a smashed Zero on the floor.&nbsp; There was a note on my bed, reminding me how serious he was about no Japanese or Germany models.&nbsp; I modelled airplanes from the time I was 15 until I was 66, but I lost the dexterity of my hands.&nbsp; I sold about 100 models that I had a stash to for $2,500 just to get ride of them.&nbsp; I still have models that I built in a curio in our living room.&nbsp; When we have guests, their children and some adults go to the curio for oooh&#039;s and ahhh&#039;s.&nbsp; I still wanted to have a hobby to enjoy.&nbsp; I was fortunate that my father left his coin collection to my brother and I.&nbsp; There was over 300 coins to split.&nbsp; We took inventory of his collection and worked hard at deciding how to divide the coins.&nbsp; He left it up to me.&nbsp; He lives in Southern California and I live in Eastern North Carolina.&nbsp; I took the coins to a good friend of mine that is a model builder and asked him to help me divide the coin equitably. I then took it to another dealer.&nbsp; Each dealer came up with almost the same division.&nbsp; I paid each $100.&nbsp; It was well worth it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1572342[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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