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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2390063, member: 1892&quot;]Half a century ago, a young boy who was utterly obsessed with Matchbox cars was playing Civil Engineer in his steep front yard. He had the full complement of Matchbox construction equipment, and got such use out of the Matchbox front-end loader that he literally wore the paint off the underside (it was a true giggle moment years later when I...um, he...got to earn his living running a real one). The slope of the yard looked like the cross-section of an anthill, honeycombed with roads, parking lots and construction excavations. </p><p><br /></p><p>During a new road project, a massive (to scale) object was unearthed. It turned out to be an 1861 Indian Head Cent, laying buried for who knows how many years (the house itself only dated to 1925 although the neighborhood was much older). That coin <i>instantly</i> became the owner&#039;s most prized treasure, and entire fantasies were created from scratch to explain the coin&#039;s presence and history. But kids are kids, and at some point the coin ceased to be an obsession, and eventually disappeared from the scene in some fashion, never to be seen again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward fifty years, and that budding road constructor is now directing his obsession-oriented nature towards coins. One of my purposes in attending the Baltimore show yesterday was to try and duplicate that coin from long in my past, thereby connecting where I am with where I was. The moment I saw the coin I bought, I knew it was the right one. It looked like it had spent a period of its&#039; own in the ground while retaining an acceptable level of wear, still having a full readable LIBERTY. It - given a little imagination - could very easily have been the same coin which planted the love of numismatics in my mind all those years ago. I will never not believe that to be possible - <b>all</b> things are &quot;possible&quot; when belief is the driving force. As long as it&#039;s &quot;possible,&quot; that&#039;s enough for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did I overpay for it? Maybe a little, although the seller (Coins of Merritt) treated me well on a package deal and deserves a public callout. Do I care? Not at all. My reasons for buying the coin - and my valuation of it - have nothing whatsoever to do with anyone else&#039;s opinion of its&#039; monetary worth. &quot;Value&quot; isn&#039;t always measured dollars and cents; it&#039;s not always about the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]490944[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]490946[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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