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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26052170, member: 10461&quot;]There are two coins in my primary collection (which I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 bucks apiece to slab), yet which have catalog values of under five bucks each.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is this 1972 Tanzania 5-shilingi.&nbsp; I lived in Tanzania in 1972 when I was a little kid.&nbsp; One of these coins was my first weekly allowance, if I had been well behaved.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin only had a catalog value of $3.00 in UNC when I submitted it, but since I did, it is the top population example at PCGS. (If only because nobody else has ever bothered to submit one.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1657008[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Later, we lived aboard a sailboat in the Bahamas in 1974.&nbsp; I remember Mom once offered me one of these “bonefish” 10-cent pieces if I’d jump overboard and swim back to the boat.&nbsp; We were anchored in a beautiful lagoon and she was trying to boost my confidence.&nbsp; She knew I could do it, but was too hesitant.&nbsp; I overcame my fears, jumped off, swam back, and collected my bounty.&nbsp; I later bought a Disney Scrooge McDuck comic book with it when we were in Nassau.</p><p><br /></p><p>So like the Tanzanian coin above, I added this one to my collection out of nostalgia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the coin I spent on that comic book in 1974 wasn’t a proof, like the example below.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1657009[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of these Franklin Mint proof minors ended up in dealer “junk” lots because they were leftovers from people breaking up the old FM proof sets, removing the silver, and casting aside the non-silver minor denominations like this.&nbsp; It is these 5-, 10, and 15-cent pieces I remember best from my childhood.&nbsp; I think this coin had a catalog value of $1.00 or $1.50 in Proof when I submitted it to PCGS.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was showing my collection to my closest coin dealer friend.&nbsp; He saw that slabbed Bahamian 10-cent piece (which had originally come out of one of <i>his</i> junk lots) and said one word: “<i>Why?</i>”&nbsp; So I told him the story.&nbsp; Sentimental reasons, that’s why.&nbsp; He got it, then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides, it’s a beautiful coin with a nice design, isn’t it?&nbsp; <i>Both</i> of these coins are cool looking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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