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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 1742893, member: 19122&quot;]My dad collected coins, his specialty was large cents, but like all collectors he amassed many other coins besides the ones he was most interested in. He passed away from a stroke this last winter, and left me in charge to administer his estate.</p><p>&nbsp;His large cent collection had been sold by his exwife during their divorce, since then his interest was mainly accumulating the state quarters.</p><p>&nbsp;every time he went out, he exchanged regular quarters for state quarters, the state quarter program had ended when he passed, it seemed a shame to just turn them over to the bank so we bought 28 books for state quarters, to give them to his grandchildren as a remembrance of him.</p><p>&nbsp;The family gathered around a few days before his funeral and we worked on pressing those quarters into books, 6 of us around a table and two people digging through bags of quarters, we spent 3 hours on it before everyone went back to their homes and hotels for the night, but only about a third of the first set of books were filled.</p><p>&nbsp;We had the funeral, and afterwards I would go home after work and go through coins pressing those quarters into their slots, some of them were hard to get in, and after a while my fingers and thumbs knew they had been used!</p><p>my dad left many other coins, and I have been bitten a bit by the collecting bug, I still am not sure where I will eventually focus my collecting efforts, one thing is for sure though, I will not be collecting state quarters![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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