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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25732447, member: 10461&quot;]You go, Sal!&nbsp; Glad you found a keeper.</p><p><br /></p><p>(BTW, I think you&#039;re on a roll with these themed-day things.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So... cheerful cheapos, huh?</p><p><br /></p><p>OK.&nbsp; Each of these coins cost me less than a dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/8b5a80f3d23d4cff8ac7b75ffa0363e0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/f93b42d6375a438fbbad344938f626a2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Found &#039;em in bulk lots.&nbsp; (Yep- even the proof.)&nbsp; Thus I reckon I paid somewhere between 10 and 25 cents for each of them.&nbsp; And each has a catalog value of less than five bucks.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the <i>coins</i> themselves cost me practically nothing- and are technically <i>worth</i> practically nothing... but yet I went and spent nearly fifty bucks apiece to put them in PCGS slabs, in order to add them to my (all-slabbed) collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why?&nbsp; Because <b>both have sentimental ties to my childhood</b>.&nbsp; You see, when I was a kid, we lived in Tanzania in 1972, and the Bahamas in 1974.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I recall, you could buy a model airplane kit with a Tanzanian 5-shilingi piece like this in 1972- I used to get one of these coins a week for my first allowance.&nbsp; And one of these Bahamian 10-cent pieces would buy a comic book back in &#039;74, when we were living aboard a trimaran sailboat in Nassau.</p><p><br /></p><p>So slabbing these made no sense from a purely economic standpoint, but all the sense in the world from a sentimental one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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