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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;expat, post: 8373354, member: 111067&quot;]It is also a way to convert a higher grade details coin to a lesser straight graded coin. And of course, they can have special meaning as well. Good or bad.</p><p>I will share one of each for you. First is a Barber half which was carried by my Wife&#039;s Grandfather and then her Father and now me. They were both coin collectors and Officers in the Norwegian merchant Navy. The coin, one of the first US coins collected by her Grandfather, traveled over 100,000 sea miles and anyones guess in land miles. That is the good.</p><p>The bad.</p><p>My Mother was born late into her parents marriage and her Mother told her of things that happened to her Father (my Grandfather) when he returned from WW1.</p><p>He would go through periods of not meeting or speaking with anybody, just sitting alone and stroking this Half penny for hours and hours every day, while whatever demons were running through his head.</p><p>I have inherited both, the Barber sits in my pocket and the other is in a capsule.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1485825[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1485826[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1485827[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1485828[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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