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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CaptHenway, post: 6226387, member: 13813&quot;]My Grandmother was born in 1890 in a small town in upper Michigan. When she stopped going to High School she got a job as a switchboard operator in a town a few miles away. Had to walk to work of course, using snowshoes in the Winter.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the late 1960&#039;s she had to come live with us. When she found out that I collected coins, this jogged her memory and she told me that when she was working at the telephone company she got a $2-1/2 gold piece in her pay envelope one Christmas. I naturally asked if she had kept it, and she said no, the $2-1/2 was her entire pay for the week, and she took it home and gave it to her Mother like she did every week, and her Mother gave her back the 50 cents she was normally allowed to keep for herself. She lived at home until she married Grandpa around 1915, so somewhere between 1907 or so and 1915 or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably the only gold coin she ever owned in her life, if only for a few hours, which was why the memory of it stuck with her for over half a century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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