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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25841081, member: 10461&quot;]Here are two more &quot;sentimentals&quot; from my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both are fairly low-value modern World coins, but they represent the two foreign countries I lived in overseas, as a child.&nbsp; And both are dated from the years we lived there.</p><p><br /></p><p>We lived in Tanzania in 1972, when I was 6-7 years old.&nbsp; Every week I used to receive one of these FAO-issue 5-shilingi pieces for my first allowance, if I had been a good boy.&nbsp; If I remember correctly, you could buy a model airplane kit with one of these.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/8b5a80f3d23d4cff8ac7b75ffa0363e0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1974, we lived aboard a 40-foot trimaran sailboat, island-hopping in the Bahamas.&nbsp; One time Mom offered me ten cents if I&#039;d jump overboard and swim back to the boat.&nbsp; We were anchored in a beautiful blue lagoon, not too deep- but though I could swim OK, I was still a little afraid.&nbsp; But I made the jump, swam back, and got one of these &quot;bonefish&quot; 10-cent pieces.&nbsp; I distinctly remember buying a Disney comic book about Scrooge McDuck with it.&nbsp; (That coin wasn&#039;t a proof, like the example below.)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/f93b42d6375a438fbbad344938f626a2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Neither one of these examples was actually saved during my childhood travels, but they are representative of the types I spent back then.&nbsp; I found both of these coins in bulk lots a few years ago, so they cost me just a few cents each.&nbsp; (Yes, even that proof coin was in a bulk bag!)</p><p><br /></p><p>So even though they&#039;re only $1-3-ish coins at best in the catalogs, I spent nearly $50 apiece getting them PCGS certified, to add them to my collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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