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<p>[QUOTE="rexesq, post: 1047315, member: 5739"]Thank you.</p><p>A bit off topic for this thread, but hey... it is my thread... so...</p><p><br /></p><p>I found out today that the bank teller I have known and seen on a nearly weekly basis for years is retiring on December 31. She has been very nice, and even gave me a couple handfulls of 40% silver kennedy halves that the bank was going to sell or melt, since she knew I collected coins, and she would always keep older pennies and stuff for me.... and I never asked her to , she just did, she was just a nice lady, who knew I had a passion for coins. I gave her a couple of indian head pennies and a liberty nickel for her 12 year old grandson last year, and apparently he quite liked them. So I was thinking, as a gift to her for all her kindness throughout the years, I was going to try to find an inexpensive, but nice enough detailed Roman 4th century bronze coin to give to her for her grandson.... I thought that would have to be a super cool Christmas present, a coin that is 1600+ years old, especially since he was so fascinated by the stuff from the late 1800's. So I'm watching some coins on ebay now, hoping to find something that is readable with a good portrait. Something nice enough he can treasure for the rest of his life. We'll see how things go....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rexesq, post: 1047315, member: 5739"]Thank you. A bit off topic for this thread, but hey... it is my thread... so... I found out today that the bank teller I have known and seen on a nearly weekly basis for years is retiring on December 31. She has been very nice, and even gave me a couple handfulls of 40% silver kennedy halves that the bank was going to sell or melt, since she knew I collected coins, and she would always keep older pennies and stuff for me.... and I never asked her to , she just did, she was just a nice lady, who knew I had a passion for coins. I gave her a couple of indian head pennies and a liberty nickel for her 12 year old grandson last year, and apparently he quite liked them. So I was thinking, as a gift to her for all her kindness throughout the years, I was going to try to find an inexpensive, but nice enough detailed Roman 4th century bronze coin to give to her for her grandson.... I thought that would have to be a super cool Christmas present, a coin that is 1600+ years old, especially since he was so fascinated by the stuff from the late 1800's. So I'm watching some coins on ebay now, hoping to find something that is readable with a good portrait. Something nice enough he can treasure for the rest of his life. We'll see how things go....[/QUOTE]
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