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<p>[QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 7402628, member: 104064"]When I was 13, my grandfather put all of his coins in a big pile, and his 5 grandchildren took turns picking. Afterwards, we did some horse trading. A few months later he died from lung cancer, so in retrospect the timing was such that he could enjoy seeing us getting them. Somehow I ended up with a Canada 1948 $1 among other uncirculated George VI silver, and finding out how much it was worth hooked me on coin collecting. </p><p><br /></p><p>The more interesting story is how he got his coins. He was the head librarian at the Chicago Tribune. His predecessor had connections all over the world who mailed him coins, and when this man died, the coins kept arriving. I suspect some came from foreign correspondents as well. I have coins from several dozen countries from him, mostly late 1940s (and mostly not a lot of value). </p><p><br /></p><p>He also socialized with Colonel McCormick, Tribune publisher and Chicago "aristocrat". I suspect that my grandfather may have contributed some rocks/artifacts from the western US to the ones that line the facade of the Tribune building (<a href="https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2013/03/05/pictures-of-all-149-rocks-stuck-on-the-tribune-tower/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2013/03/05/pictures-of-all-149-rocks-stuck-on-the-tribune-tower/" rel="nofollow">https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2013/03/05/pictures-of-all-149-rocks-stuck-on-the-tribune-tower/</a>), as the places I know he went on his trips "out west" with my grandmother correspond with many of them, as well as the time frame. I have a box of similar objects from him. Grandpa was a Lincoln expert. He was also a trumpet player who performed in speakeasies during the Roaring Twenties, and carried a revolver in his trumpet case.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 7402628, member: 104064"]When I was 13, my grandfather put all of his coins in a big pile, and his 5 grandchildren took turns picking. Afterwards, we did some horse trading. A few months later he died from lung cancer, so in retrospect the timing was such that he could enjoy seeing us getting them. Somehow I ended up with a Canada 1948 $1 among other uncirculated George VI silver, and finding out how much it was worth hooked me on coin collecting. The more interesting story is how he got his coins. He was the head librarian at the Chicago Tribune. His predecessor had connections all over the world who mailed him coins, and when this man died, the coins kept arriving. I suspect some came from foreign correspondents as well. I have coins from several dozen countries from him, mostly late 1940s (and mostly not a lot of value). He also socialized with Colonel McCormick, Tribune publisher and Chicago "aristocrat". I suspect that my grandfather may have contributed some rocks/artifacts from the western US to the ones that line the facade of the Tribune building ([URL]https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2013/03/05/pictures-of-all-149-rocks-stuck-on-the-tribune-tower/[/URL]), as the places I know he went on his trips "out west" with my grandmother correspond with many of them, as well as the time frame. I have a box of similar objects from him. Grandpa was a Lincoln expert. He was also a trumpet player who performed in speakeasies during the Roaring Twenties, and carried a revolver in his trumpet case.[/QUOTE]
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