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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 795275, member: 19456&quot;]I already posted what was then my entire collection...Back late last summer I guess...I posted them by topic...I have since added more to them as I have discovered the 2 for a dollar bin at CoinFest...and proceeded to spend something like $40 there...so my collection has pretty much doubled since I posted everything I had. I could resurrect those old threads or if somebody wants to add to the old threads I started, feel free...I don&#039;t start all that many so they should not be too hard to find.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here are my most treasured pieces of currency...</p><p>This North Africa note was brought back from WWII by one of my four relatives who served in the war, most likely my grandfather, my father&#039;s father. (he was a coin collector apparently, I never met him). After my father died in 2002, these sat untouched in the basement until my brother was rooting around and found this and several others in behind the heater...these notes I am going to post were from that small stash...I am the third person in my family to be in possesion of them...I hope that someday I will have children or a child to give them to, with the story of how I got them, and tell them of their grandfather who served in WWII at the Battle of the Bulge and others. </p><p><img src="http://images52.fotki.com/v1554/photos/4/348354/7834851/1935ANorthAfrica1I30105990Ca-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://images52.fotki.com/v1551/photos/4/348354/7834851/1935ANorthAfrica1I30105990Cb-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This 1928 United States Note was also in that stash.</p><p><img src="http://images51.fotki.com/v423/photos/4/348354/7834475/1928USN1A01060432Aa-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://images26.fotki.com/v933/photos/4/348354/7834475/1928USN1A01060432Ab-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This Large $1 was also in that group. Seeing this blew my mind...I had not known anything other then the size that had been in circulation beginning in 1929...I found that out later, I had always known it, and this large size $1, like I said...amazed me. Unfortunatly for me, Large Size notes are generally out of my price range...I only have three, one of which is an obsolete, and is my favorite note that I didn&#039;t inherit...but I have posted that about a million times and want to limit this post to my three truly prized possesions!</p><p><img src="http://images52.fotki.com/v1553/photos/4/348354/7834582/1923SC1Z26931999Ba-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://images50.fotki.com/v1558/photos/4/348354/7834582/1923SC1Z26931999Bb-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It it because of these three notes that I became a currency collector. Sure, the condition might be some of the worst in my collection...but that doesn&#039;t matter to me, I treasure these and I will for the rest of my life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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