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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3932294, member: 56859&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not quite <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I did however get to visit my coins yesterday for the first time since July.&nbsp;&nbsp; Wow, I have a bunch of <b>awesome</b> coins!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Seeing them in person is much better than looking at pictures.&nbsp; Also, absence makes the heart grow fonder <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Knowing I&#039;d have other &quot;must put in carry-on bag&quot; items for the actual move, I flew the coins to Texas in and put them in a SDB this summer.&nbsp; Flying with my entire collection was nerve-wracking since the last leg was on a small plane requiring roll-aboards to be checked at the gate.&nbsp; I certainly wasn&#039;t going to let the coins out of my sight!&nbsp; I had smaller sturdy bags inside the roll-aboard and when I reached that gate I switched everything out so I could fit the smaller but heavy coin bags in the plane&#039;s cabin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was a little worried that something might happen during the security check, such as an uninformed agent thinking it was illegal to have the coins or to transport them to the States.&nbsp; The roll-aboard which was completely full of coins in boxes wasn&#039;t given extra screening but my &quot;personal item&quot; duffel was searched because they didn&#039;t know what the one box with round things was.&nbsp; LOL!</p><p><br /></p><p>On this one-way trip I had yet another extremely heavy bag, mostly the dregs of my family&#039;s US junk silver hoard, plus silver (and a little gold) shot for jewelry-making.&nbsp; Also in the heavy bag was a bunch of hand-made jewelry jumbled up into small bags.&nbsp; The whole thing was very dense and of course triggered a bag check.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one-way trip took two days because there are no longer any routes which make the trip in one day.&nbsp; I had to overnight in Dallas, meaning I had to retrieve my horribly heavy bags, get to hotel, and then do the whole security thing again the next morning.&nbsp; Each time the carry-on received extra screening, which I had them do in private.&nbsp; The agents were marveling at the contents.&nbsp; In St. Thomas, the marveling was of a surprising nature:&nbsp; the agents wondered aloud why anyone would want the old coins (old/worn US silver coins).&nbsp; &quot;I&#039;d just spend them&quot;.&nbsp; OMG!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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