[CLOSED] The "It's About Time I Had Another Giveaway Because H8_modern is so Awesome" contest

I also received my prize today. Thanks again @lordmarcovan.

 

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Congratulations!

 

Thank you @lordmarcovan for the awesome prizes! It was a fun contest that I learned a lot from and am super stoked about expanding my collection with some coinage from the motherland! Salud!

 

I wish that was my package. My Nana is from Italy and recently I have shown interest in the Italian Lira. Very cool prize. Very cool!

 

Do you know what area? After he fought in WWI my great grandfather came over on the boat from San Bartolomeo to NY and worked as, what they called them, a powder monkey blasting the mountains for the NYS throughway. Once he had saved enough money he had his brother come over, then his wife (that was an arranged marriage) and they started shipping relatives in and settling in Brooklyn. Once my grandma was born he decided drilling holes and filling them with dynamite wasn't a good career so he opened a grocery shop up and was the blocks Italian grocer. If I had one more pull of the time machines handle it would have been to meet my great grandfather as a young man, Brooklyn 1920s. I can still remember him bouncing me on his knee singing in Italian with his string bean puppet.

 

Thank you. Now I'm speech less.

 

My Nana was born in 1933. She was raised in Naples Italy through world war two. It is hard talking to her about it because it was a very rough point in her life, but every once in a while she will tell me something. She came to New York in 1960, one year after having her first child. After coming to the states she had 3 more children. When I get around to it I'll have to post some of her stories.

 

Haha that is too funny. Speaking of coins I don't know if the story is true or not but my Nana just told me a story this morning. She said that when she was young her family had a big ceramic container sort of like a vase and she said that her family had filled it with coins and money in general. She said it was burried in her back yard when the goverment came around with metal detectors and dug it up and took it. I asked her what type of stuff was in there and she told me gold. I'm not sure if the story is made up or if it is indeed true but it is interesting nonetheless.About a week ago she came to vist for a few weeks so I'll see what else she will tell me.

 

Thanks for the contest! It was fun!

 

One will be mine?