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Message:: [QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1326300, member: 12789"]I have an 1867 two cent piece in the SDB that was given to me when I was 10 years old by my elderly grandfather.  It would appear to look just like any other coin, except that it has a story.  About 80 years prior when my grandfather was 6 years old he was working on the family farm feeding ears of corn through a hand cranked corn shucker.  He didn't remember how it happened but when he put the corn into the shucker he got his pinkie finger caught in the gears inside the machine.  His father did the best they could, but his finger was crushed and they had to go into town - a journey of about a day by wagon.  Unfortunately he ended up having the rest of his finger amputated by the doctor in town.  The next day they returned home and he recuperated. His older brother felt sorry for him and gave him the two cent piece to spend on candy at the store in town next time they went into town.  Even at six years old he was so touched by getting the coin that his brother had saved for awhile to spend that he ended up keeping it as a memento.  When he gave it to me, I was just starting out in collecting coins and was not yet familiar with 2 cent pieces - not even knowing that they had been made.  So it is my first 2 cent piece, just an ordinary looking coin - but it has been owned by only two people since the fall of 1897.[/QUOTE]