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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2860466, member: 10461&quot;]Not only is that a lovely Lincoln, but it&#039;s a great sentimental memory.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have both of my parents and two sets of biological parents, and since my folks divorced and remarried I had <i>four</i> sets of grandparents, if you include <i>step-</i>grandparents.&nbsp; I was adopted by my stepfather after my parents&#039; divorce, so <i>his</i> mother became my step-grandmother, and she was fantastic- every bit as wonderful as my biological grandmothers were (and they were awesome)!&nbsp; I was blessed in the grandparent department.</p><p><br /></p><p>My step-grandmother, &quot;Grandmomma Dobbs&quot;, was responsible for starting me off in numismatics, so I owe her a debt of gratitude.&nbsp; She was born in 1909 so she would have been 108 this year if she were still with us.&nbsp; She was the last of my grandparents or step-grandparents to survive.&nbsp; I thought she&#039;d make it to 100 but she didn&#039;t, quite.&nbsp; She passed away in the early- to mid-1990s (I forget the exact date).</p><p><br /></p><p>To give you an idea of how cool Grandmomma Dobbs was, there was this one time when we kids had made a rope swing that swung across this deep, ditchlike gully.&nbsp; None of the other adults would swing on it, but Grandmomma did, just as if she were one of us kids- and she had to have been well into her 70s at the time.&nbsp; She&#039;d climb ladders to check out our treehouses, too.&nbsp; She had a wonderful spirit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here&#039;s the coin I got from her - the one that started it all.&nbsp; I still have it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/1936-mercury-dime-first-in-my-childhood-collection-from-1976.6152/full?d=1493273228" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><i>On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, when I was not quite 11 years old, we were at my grandmother&#039;s house and I was asked to set the table for the upcoming feast.</i></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><i>Grandmomma pointed out where the silverware drawer was in a huge old sideboard in the dining room of her grand old Atlanta house. In that drawer, I found a 1936 Mercury dime! It seemed incredibly ancient to me at the time... forty years old. Now forty years have elapsed since I found it. I also found a 1948 Franklin half that had been shot with a bullet, and a 1943 steel cent. (Grandmomma let me keep the steelie but not the Frankie- that was a souvenir of some uncle&#039;s marksmanship and had apparently been shot in the air, Annie Oakley style.)</i></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><i>The 1936 Merc dime won&#039;t win any &quot;best coin&quot; competitions, but being the sentimental creature that I am, I kept the coin, and it survived the vicissitudes of the building, destruction, and rebuilding of so many of my collections over the years.</i></font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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