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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nesvt, post: 28249, member: 1749&quot;]Did anyone hear anything strange during the holidays?&nbsp; For example, we had a family get-together with lots of relatives and I heard something that got my blood pumping.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My brother gave me a cool gift for Christmas.&nbsp; He bought me a stereo microscope to examine coins.&nbsp; Two eyepieces, mutliple lenses... 30x, 60x, ... pretty cool.&nbsp; Now I can examine those VAMs even closer.&nbsp; That&#039;s not the story.&nbsp; One of my in-law&#039;s saw the opened gift near the tree and asked me if I was a coin collector.&nbsp; Told him I just started.&nbsp; He tells me he has a few canvas bags of silver coins in his closet!&nbsp; He&#039;s not a collector.&nbsp; His father ran a store for 50+ years and passed away about five years ago.&nbsp; Any time half or silver dollars came in, he saved them.&nbsp; He said most are Kennedy&#039;s and Franklin&#039;s.&nbsp; He told me I can go through them next time I&#039;m visiting (lives out of state).&nbsp; Then he told me he also had eight or so other silver dollars from the 1790&#039;s.&nbsp; He got them from his father and doesn&#039;t know anything about them.&nbsp; Said they were in great shape, some 1795&#039;s and the rest 1798&#039;s.&nbsp; I showed him my Red Book and he points to the draped bust type dollars with the small eagle reverse and the heraldic eagle reverse.&nbsp; They&#039;re in a shoebox in his closet.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s time for a road trip.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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