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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;vegasvic, post: 423994, member: 15296&quot;]My best friend&#039;s fiancee had a ten year old son that I would watch at night for them as they both worked second shift.&nbsp; Not much work, make dinner, he&#039;d do his homework and then play video games.&nbsp; </p><p>He started to wonder what I was doing with books and magazines spread out and coin albums and coins.&nbsp; Before long he was watching me and I was explaining to him what I was doing.&nbsp; He was actually MORE interested in my coins than his video games.</p><p>I got him Lincoln folders and started giving him cents to put in them.&nbsp; So we started his Lincoln collection.&nbsp; We&#039;re still working on it although I don&#039;t need to watch him anymore.&nbsp; We lived in a town of 106 people in Northern Minnesota and called our selves the (Name of Town) Coin Club.&nbsp; With only two members&nbsp; we met several times a week.&nbsp; For Christmas that year I gave him a Silver Eagle of his birth year.&nbsp; </p><p>Unfortunately, his birthday is Dec. 26th, so most people give him a combined Christmas/Birthday present.&nbsp; However, I started giving him a smaller gift of a coin or coins for Christmas and a larger coin gift for his birthday the next day.&nbsp; He followed my love of half dollars and last year I gave a 2007 Silver Eagle for Christmas and a set of XF/AU Franklins for his birthday the following day.&nbsp; The boy is definitely a hooked coin collector.</p><p>His step-mother, who he doesn&#039;t really care for much, gave him a few old coins last spring that she had been saving.&nbsp; He brought them over and we looked them up and she had given him a 1901S Barber dime in Fine.&nbsp; The August Greysheet bid is $285.&nbsp; I thought for sure he would let slip what she had done, and she would demand it back, but in over a year he hasn&#039;t.&nbsp; Very good for a 13 year old.&nbsp; He keeps all of his coins arranged on his bookshelf in his room at his mother&#039;s house.&nbsp; Just as I had shown him.&nbsp; What his step-mother doesn&#039;t know will never hurt her.</p><p>I&#039;m in the early stages of Parkinson&#039;s Disease and have willed my entire collection to him.&nbsp; If the disease progresses faster than anticipated, it will put him through school.&nbsp; If not, I&#039;ll still help him out and when he&#039;s into his twenties he will inherit my life&#039;s pasttime.&nbsp; I consider him my grandson, since I never had children and have made the legal necessities required to make sure that his mother will control the collection until he is 21, at which time his step-mother will no longer have any sway with him.</p><p>As we all are nothing but temporary custodians of our collections, I am very pleased to know where my collection will be going and that my work and expense will be appreciated.</p><p>Vegas Vic[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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