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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 411413, member: 12789&quot;]I don&#039;t have a picture of it, and it is in the bank.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But my favourite coin has a very long and fascinating history in my family.</p><p><br /></p><p>When my Grandfather was 6 years old and living on a farm in the Midwest, he had chores along with his siblings.&nbsp; One of his tasks was to operate the corn shucking machine, which was then a hand cranked mechanism, that it would amaze me that a 6 year old could operate - they are beasts.&nbsp; One day a cob got stuck in the machine and he errantly reached in to pull it back out.&nbsp; In the meanwhile the gears moved a bit and his pinkie finger got caught up and was nearly severed.&nbsp; His parents took him into town to see the doctor, and when the doctor saw it he advised that the finger be amputated as it would not heal.&nbsp; So towards evening he and his parents returned home from in town, his brother whom had stayed home was sympathetic to his plight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Touchingly he gave my grandfather his 2¢ piece, which he had been holding onto to take into town to buy candy.&nbsp; He advised my grandfather to take it into town the next time they went in and spend it in the mercantile.&nbsp; My grandfather was so moved by getting this long saved 2¢ piece that he kept it - for almost 80 years until he gave it to me in 1976 when he was 86.&nbsp; He knew that I collected coins, and he gave me this piece and shared the story of it.&nbsp; I also will say that much of the early stuff I have in my collection, Morgans etc. came from him. Now I have this coin still, and will hope to keep it all my life, along with the story behind it.&nbsp; It is an 1867, and I would say it grades about VF.&nbsp; Not worth a mint pricewise, but for pure story and history it is worth more than gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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