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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thecointrader, post: 1440434, member: 6477&quot;]Instead of posting a coin with a lady on it, I&#039;m going to post a lady with her coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My grandmother was 92 years old when she decided to become a coin collector like her grandson. Although she had a few birth year coins from 1907 stashed away in a cigar box, she had previously never collected coins. It was obvious to me, when she asked for a State Quarter folder, that she wanted to develop a closer relationship with her grandson in her later years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Upon hearing this request from a person of her advanced age, I explained to Grandma that she would be nearly 102 years old before she could complete such a monumental project.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Well,&quot; Grandma replied, in a challenging stance, &quot;Then I will just have to start a different collection after I complete this one.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Shown below is my dear Grandmother, proudly showing off her coins after completing the first page of her coin folder. She collected nearly all of the coins from her own pocket change. Grandma lived independently and maintained her driver license through age 97. After finding 49 of the fifty state quarters on her own, family members presented her with a Hawaii State Quarter to complete the album. She was nearly 102 years young as she proudly pushed that gifted quarter into the final hole of her frayed-at-the-edges State Quarter Folder.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, of course, Grandma promptly began a new collection -- the Territories Quarters -- as she had defiantly pledged to do nearly a decade earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s only fitting that I post this story today -- on Mother&#039;s Day -- and I ask everyone reading this thread to either begin a new collection or encourage a loved one to enter this Hobby Of Kings and Queens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grandma taught me that we are never too old to begin collecting coins. We&#039;re as young as we think we are, and Grandma thought she was young well past her 100th Birthday. It&#039;s been 6 months since Grandma passed away at the age of 104. Her modest collection of State Quarters and Birth Year Coins has been passed on to her 11-year-old Great-Great-Great-Grandson (yes, that&#039;s three &#039;Greats&#039;) to continue our numismatic family tradition.</p><p><br /></p><p>-The Coin Trader</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k481/thecointrader/GrandmaAndHerCoins.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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