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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26795756, member: 10461&quot;]<b>Bicentennial Ike dollars.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Brings back a fond memory. Bear with me as I go off on a slight tangent, and down Memory Lane. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a kid, back in the late &#039;70s and very early &#039;80s, my grandfather would have one big birthday party in the summertime for all of his grandchildren, up at his mountain farm in North Carolina. There would be lots of fun entertainment and nice gifts for all of us. (I still have two of the collector knives he gave me. One of them- a Randall- is worth a few hundred bucks now.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, one June, for the grandchildren&#039;s party, Granddaddy took a big old wooden horse trough from the apple barn. It was not very high off the ground but was really long. He filled it with white sand. Buried in the sand were dozens and dozens of <b>Bicentennial Ike dollars</b>. He stood at the end of the trough with a stopwatch, and each of us grandkids were given an allotted amount of time to dig and sift through the sand to see how many coins we could scoop up. I think we were given something like one minute on the clock (the littler kids were given a bit longer). I forget how many Ikes I found. Maybe a dozen or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, if you&#039;ll forgive the brief digression, here&#039;s Granddaddy&#039;s WW2 deployment medal, and a picture of him from one of those parties at the farm.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/s8/a6lmj67rphm1.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/0q/1qp5eafo9wdh.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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