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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jtlee321, post: 2947562, member: 73983&quot;]Sorry for the delay in posting these images.&nbsp; My Secret Santa totally rocked my Christmas.&nbsp; I was so excited to see what came from way up north. LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>The package was fairly small around the size of a small flat rate USPS Priority Mail Box.&nbsp; I felt bad for my SS since the shipping itself was over the recommended value of the gifts we gave.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what I received in my mail box.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]719304[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is what was inside the package, a couple of nicely wrapped gifts a card and a $1,000,000,000.00 Canadian Chocolate Bar.&nbsp; I guess hyper inflation is kicking in up there Canada. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]719305[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I opened the card first and inside was a very nice note.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]719306[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]719307[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So I asked the family which gift to open first.&nbsp; It was unanimous, open the small present. This is what was inside. A nice plush clamshell box. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]719308[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder what&#039;s inside!!!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]719309[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes!!&nbsp; Two Large Cents dated 1876.&nbsp; One from Newfoundland and the other from Canada!&nbsp; Exactly what I had hoped for when I saw that the package had arrived from Canada.&nbsp; I just love those old Large Cents. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; These Large Cents have a bit of personal importance to me.&nbsp; My great grandfather immigrated from England back in the early 1900&#039;s.&nbsp; He arrived in Canada where he spent several years before moving down here to the US.&nbsp; He collected several Canadian and English coins when he was younger and passed them down to my grandmother who still has them.&nbsp; I enjoy hearing her stories of her father and the coins he collected.&nbsp; She is the person who got me into coin collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the Newfoundland.&nbsp; It has some really neat doubling going on with the E&#039;s of ONE CENT.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]719311[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Canadian Cent is just as beautiful as the Newfoundland Cent.&nbsp; Oh how I wish these coins could tell their tales....</p><p>[ATTACH=full]719312[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next came the larger present.&nbsp; I was elated to see that it was a 1975 Canadian Mint Set!!&nbsp; My birth year!!&nbsp; I have been a bit jaded with the US Mint and the set they produced for my birth year.&nbsp; The only coins they struck dated 1975 were the Cent, Nickel and Dime.&nbsp; The Quarter, Half and Dollar are all the Bi-Centennial stuff, which is great for my brother since he was born in 1976.&nbsp; So now I have a complete Mint Set dated 1975 from Cent to Dollar. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]719313[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]719314[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you so much Secret Santa!!&nbsp; I am elated by the gifts you bestowed upon me.&nbsp; You really made my Christmas. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I hope your Christmas was as wonderful as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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