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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eric Babula, post: 26251873, member: 85976&quot;]I may have told this story, already. If so, sorry for the repeat. I have three pocket pieces: a Mercury Dime (year isn&#039;t important to me), an 1864 2-Cent Piece (this coin and this year because it was the inscription &quot;In God We Trust&quot; was put on a US coin - for better for for worse), and a Morgan Dollar (year isn&#039;t important to me).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mercury Dime was the first silver type I fell in love with as a kid! After collecting cents, nickels, dimes and quarters from pocket change and plugging holes in my Whitman folders (back in the late 70&#039;s/early 80&#039;s you would regularly find Wheat Cents and silver in pocket change), I got to go to a coin show with my dad. There, I saw it! A Mercury Dime in BU condition! Love at first sight! I had to have it!</p><p><br /></p><p>The Morgan Dollar was the first &quot;real&quot; investment I made in a silver coin. As a kid, I bought a Morgan Dollar for $15.00, and thought I was some sort of big-deal collector! Since then, I&#039;ve loved Morgan Dollars, and have had many in and out of my possession over the decades. Also, I love the feel of the heavy silver dollar, and the ring when I flip it in the air for &quot;heads or tails&quot;!</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2-Cent Piece - partly because of the history of the inscription &quot;In God We Trust&quot;. But, also, because it&#039;s a type that not many non-collectors have seen or even have heard of! So, when I was at work, during a meeting, I would occasionally take it out and toss it on the conference room table, and say &quot;I&#039;d like to throw my 2-cents in&quot;! When people realized what I did, it got some chuckles. But, it also got a few people interested in what that strange coin was! And, I even sold two 1864 2-Cent pieces after they learned a little about the coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think I ever convinced anyone to be a coin collector, but at least a few people have learned something from my pocket pieces, and a couple now own their very own 2-Cent piece!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1676912[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1676913[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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