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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thebeav, post: 2499574, member: 8880&quot;]Those are beautiful coins and a great story.....</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; My favorite coin &#039;tip&#039; came to me in 1979. I had gone on a house call. There were many Whitman books. A kitchen full.....Walkers, Washingtons, Roosevelts, Barbers, Morgans and Peace.....Many full, the ones you could expect to be full. My evaluation took hours and hours. I finally came up with a number, and it was the winning number, as I knew that he had shopped. He was happy to hear this number, and awarded me the collection.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; I began packing the books into cardboard boxes that he had provided and he left the room. Soon, he came back with a little plastic box. He went on to say, &quot; This is my favorite coin&quot;, a raw 1806 Heraldic half (well, everything was raw in 1979). &quot;This was given to me by&quot;... and the story continued. He said, &quot; I used to imagine Napoleon may have held this coin, maybe Lafayette&quot;. His face was so sincere while he was talking, so real..I remember thinking, &quot;This is what numismatics is all about.&quot; He finished his story and handed me the box, &quot;It&#039;s yours now&quot; , he said. I tried to back-pedal and I said the things you would say, but there was no escaping. He gave me that coin.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s been put away for years, and I haven&#039;t seen it in a long time, but I know it&#039;s there. I was just a kid, but this guy was up there. I know he&#039;s long in the ground by now, but I think of him often.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After all, isn&#039;t that what numismatics is all about ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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