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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 3979007, member: 100459&quot;]I had known about my father&#039;s coin collection since I was a kid of 11. That was 61 years ago. He gave me a wheat penny, a Buffalo nickel, a Mercury dime, a Washington quarter, and a Franklin Half dollar.&nbsp; The only problem was I was able to look at them each Friday when he took them out of his vault. My brother got the same collection. Neither my brother nor I added to our collection until we were 21. I bought a vault and locked them in it.&nbsp; A sad story about a 14 year old boy, I went through my mother&#039;s purse and found a Walking Liberty Half Dollar which I stole so I could go to the store to buy some candy.&nbsp; I hid the candy so nobody would know, however, we lived in a small town in 1959, and the store manager called my mother and asked her if she gave me the coin. She looked through her purse and found it missing.&nbsp; She thanked the manager and she went to the store to &quot;buy back&quot; her coin. I didn&#039;t know about it until she got back home so she could show me her half dollar. That was the reason we didn&#039;t get &quot;our&quot; coin collection until we were 21. I never took/stole another thing in my life.&nbsp; I have been a CPA for 34 years, part of it was as a State Auditor and the other part, I served as a Comptroller for an international conglomerate.&nbsp; I wonder if they knew that I once stole a valuable coin from my mother, would I have gotten those jobs, or if they called my parents for a reference.&nbsp; Anyway, I am 72 and have been collecting ever since I finally got my coin collection from my father.&nbsp; My pride and joy is the Walking Liberty Half Dollar that I stole from my mother.&nbsp; She gave it to me the evening that I graduated from college with an accounting degree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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