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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4490683, member: 75937"]I gave my mom a call this morning because I can't go visit her due to COVID-19 risks. She was hard-working, devoted, indulgent, and slow to anger. Neither she nor my dad believed in spanking or other physical forms of discipline. She has early dementia now and I grieve for how I will gradually lose her as the disease progresses. My mom fostered my interest in coins back in the 1970s, when I was just a kid. She'd patiently indulge my habit by driving me to the mall -- which had TWO coin shops in it, if you can believe it -- for me to participate in the "bid board" auction. The coins were hung on a peg board and you'd write your bid on a sheet of cardboard that was attached to the 2x2 holders in which they were kept. The auction closed at about 4:00 in the afternoon. Generally low-grade and inexpensive material -- the equivalent in many ways to raw coins on eBay today -- but it was a great way for a kid on a modest allowance to add coins to his Whitman folders. We were all caught up in Bicentennial fever at the time and one of my favorite wins was this Lexington Concord half dollar. I didn't keep track of how much it set me back -- I only remember it was about a month's allowance, more money than I had ever spent on a coin before, and I had to borrow from my mom to buy it. It's not MS-65 or anything, but I sure treasured it at the time! [ATTACH=full]1114318[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]