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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2506253, member: 12789&quot;]No pics, it is in the SDB.&nbsp; It is an ordinary F-VF 1867 2 cent piece that my grandfather received from his brother when he was 6 years old in 1897.&nbsp; His brother had been saving it to spend in town, but my grandfather had lost his pinky finger in a cornshucker accident on the farm and had to go into town to visit the doctor and his older brother gave the coin to him to spend on candy at the store so he would feel better.&nbsp; Instead he held onto the coin, for almost 80 years when he gave it to me when I was a small boy starting to collect coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s monetary worth is pecuniary compared to many coins I have bought and sold over the years - but to have kept a coin that was a gift for 80 years and then to give it to a young grandchild starting to collect coins - priceless.&nbsp; My grandfather also went to a coin shop when I was a kid and bought me an 1841-O half dime that I still have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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