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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vince11229, post: 3926614, member: 98461&quot;]Everything about my collection holds stories from my family from the 1809 large cent (found under a base moulding in the house my grandparents bought in Brooklyn in 1950) to the late 19th &amp; early 20 century large Canadian cents, many found by my Grandfather ( he worked washing rugs for all the major hotels in Manhattan). When I was about 9 or 10 years old my Uncle Ed gave me his Whitman books with some coins in each(Lincoln cents; Buffalo nickels; Jefferson nickels; mercury dimes). I added to it for a time (it was so hard to push the coins into their places!) then lost interest after I earned my coin collecting merit badge (I needed a 1957 half dollar which my Dad got for me - I never knew how) and put those coins and Coin albums away for 45 years!!&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; After having boxes of coins passed down to me from my family and from my in-laws it rekindled my interest as I had a decent assortment of halves from Walking Liberty to Franklins and Kennedys as well as a handful of Morgan’s and a peace dollar along with envelopes of wheat cents and some buffalo nickels. I know, remembering stories my grandparents would tell, that it wasn’t easy to set those coins aside as they never made a lot of money. I bought some Whitman albums and filled in what I could from my inheritance and then added where I could from coin roll hunting, adding to the albums my Uncle had started so many years before. I’m 5 Jefferson nickels away from having a complete set. I now have an almost complete Kennedy collection and filled all the spaces in the Franklin though some dates don’t match with the spaces - same for the Buffalo nickels- many dates don’t match (but who cares! I know where they came from!). Monetarily it’s not worth much, I don’t own even one graded coin, but there’s nothing that I have that I could sell and I will make sure that my son knows the history of what he will be getting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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