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Message:: [QUOTE="Elbesaar, post: 928762, member: 26007"]During WW-II my Dad, was assigned to set up HQ for the 84th Infantry - 19th AAA Group - Anti Aircraft Field Artillery somewhere in Germany - and he commandeered  a "Schloss" [ castle ] for that purpose. In his new office - there was an old Roll-Top type desk - which was locked. A few minutes with his bayonet - the lock gave way. In one of the desk's hidden compart-ments was a cache of coins and medals. Oddly enough one of the coins was  something my Dad had never seen before - even though it was imprinted United States of America. It was also the smallest US coin he had ever seen. A "Half Dime" he read...hmmm, he thought to himself, that's a Nickel, and I can buy an ice cream back home with that. Gladly, he sent it to his Father, who dabbled in coins, and I recently sent this Half Dime to PCGS to be graded. It came back as an XF 45. Oh... yeah, the year: 1852-O [/QUOTE]