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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4137724, member: 10461"]I see I'm not the only one who included a memento of an African childhood in my Eclectic Box. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>We lived in Tanzania in 1972. I turned 7 years old while we lived over there. I used to get one of these 5-shilingi coins for my weekly allowance, if I had been well behaved. If memory serves, you could buy a model airplane kit with one.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1070642[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was happy to find this UNC example (from the right year!) in a bulk bag, so yes, I spent nearly $50 slabbing a coin that catalogs for maybe $3 in BU, and have no regrets. Sometimes the selections are purely sentimental. But these are cool looking coins regardless, and of a decent size.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4137724, member: 10461"]I see I'm not the only one who included a memento of an African childhood in my Eclectic Box. :) We lived in Tanzania in 1972. I turned 7 years old while we lived over there. I used to get one of these 5-shilingi coins for my weekly allowance, if I had been well behaved. If memory serves, you could buy a model airplane kit with one. [ATTACH=full]1070642[/ATTACH] I was happy to find this UNC example (from the right year!) in a bulk bag, so yes, I spent nearly $50 slabbing a coin that catalogs for maybe $3 in BU, and have no regrets. Sometimes the selections are purely sentimental. But these are cool looking coins regardless, and of a decent size.[/QUOTE]
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