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Message:: [QUOTE="BUncirculated, post: 1389764, member: 29581"]My great grandfather was a collector for many years. When I was about 11 he pulled his collection out and showed it to me and told me about some of the coins he had. A lot of Morgans, Walker halves, Franklins, had some Barbers and SLQs, a few seated libertys. One coin, he pulled out, was in a 2x2. He acquired it when he went west to Nevada as a young man. He was working for the railroad company as a surveyor and he went into one of the saloons still in business. While there, he decided to play some poker with some of the rail layers. They were playing table stakes, which basically means what you have in your pocket is what your limit is. They got down to the last hand, and everyone had folded except grampeer and this other fellow. He had all in except for one piece he pulled from his pocket. An 1884-CC $20 gold piece. Grampeer won it with four aces to the other guys two pair. That was the most beautiful coin I ever saw. Right next to that in grampeer's album was an 1884-CC silver dollar. Grampeer gave me that silver dollar, and told me this I pass on to you along with the passion for coin collecting which I've enjoyed for over 45 years. I still have that coin. The gold coin was sold at auction when grampeer died, not sure for how much, but I can only imagine.[/QUOTE]