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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 7851742, member: 100459&quot;]I didn&#039;t know that my father collected coins until my mother passed away.&nbsp; I lost my father in an auto accident about ten years before my mother passed.&nbsp; He was 2 years younger than I am now.&nbsp; I have a brother and 2 sisters.&nbsp; We got together an decided we would not try to divide my father&#039;s things until after she passed so that her home would stayed the same.&nbsp; He died on May 20th on his birthday.&nbsp; Anyway, my mother passed in 2004.&nbsp; When the 4 children, all in their mid to late 40s, got together to settle the estate, that was when we found out that my father had been collecting coins.&nbsp; I was surprised by the detail he had kept up on the coins.&nbsp; He kept a diary on every coin he bought.&nbsp; I have an Australian 1943 Shilling?, 1941 Bronze Penny-New Zealand,1917 One Penny, 1922 One-Half Penny, 1938 Three Pence, and a couple from India, 1943 One Anna, and 1944 One-Half Rupee.</p><p>He had placed each one in a manila coin envelope and labeled each.&nbsp; He served in the U.S. Submarine service during WWII, Korea in the Korean War, and in Vietnam.</p><p>After I saw all his work with his collection, I couldn&#039;t be more proud of my father.</p><p>You might want to sit down and talk to your fathers about his hobbies...now and when he was younger.&nbsp; You might find out some interesting things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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