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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 25954726, member: 104064&quot;]In a similar vein to [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER], this coin and many others always makes me happy. Grandpa gifted all of his coins to his five grandchildren when I was 13. He was head librarian at the Chicago Tribune. His predecessor had people all over the world sending him coins, and when that gentleman passed away, the coins kept coming for years afterwards, and so grandpa took them over. As a result, I have world coins from many different countries, with a big percentage from the 1940s. I suspect many also came from war correspondents returning from assignments overseas. The Chicago Tribune building is studded with building fragments and rocks from everywhere, and I believe some of those rocks originated with grandpa, because they correspond with locations that I know he and grandma visited. He hobnobbed with Colonel McCormick at cocktail parties, and wrote an opinion column for the Tribune under his initials C.T. Smutny. He was a Lincoln researcher and debunked things like a list of Lincoln quotes circulating at the time, sort of a Snopes of his day. During the Roaring Twenties, he played trumpet in speakeasies and strip clubs, and carried a revolver in his trumpet case. As a grandfather, he was quiet with a sharp wit and wry sense of humor, and never let any of his grandchildren win at chess just to make them feel good. Merry Christmas, grandpa! Thanks for the coins. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1651722[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1651724[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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