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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;whopper64, post: 8341436, member: 101364&quot;]I probably told this story before, but here goes:&nbsp; My father had a grocery store in the 50&#039;s and early 60&#039;s, and I was the delivery boy for the neighborhood.&nbsp; Many of the customers were elderly, and they would tip me with small change.&nbsp; One day, one of the elderly ladies brought out a large glass container (a 5 gallon water container?) filled 3/4 of the way with old coins (they looked old to me), and she reached in and gave me some pennies.&nbsp; They looked strange since they weren&#039;t Lincoln cents, but they had an indian head on them.&nbsp; I thanked the lady and took them back to the store and showed my dad.&nbsp; He seemed excited (I do remember that one of them was dated 1877, and the rest were early 1900&#039;s.&nbsp; He gave me a quarter for them, and at the time, I was quite happy to get a quarter for several strange-looking pennies.&nbsp; He then told me to make sure to let him know when I got any other tips in old coins.&nbsp; Most of the time I got more indian head pennies, but sometimes I got old nickels and dimes (I especially liked the Mercury dimes) and they all went to my father.&nbsp; Later on I found out that he sold all the coins, but never found out how much he got for them.&nbsp; I do know it helped pay for their trip to Georgia when they relocated in the mid 60&#039;s due to an air force base closing where he then worked.</p><p><br /></p><p>To make a long story longer, I got the bug about 14 years ago when my wife and I moved to Nevada after retiring from our jobs.&nbsp; Since my daughter were grown, I thought it would be neat to start collecting by dates so that they would remember grandparents and great-grandparents birth years as well as special coins for any of their achievements such as graduations, first jobs, first homes, and any other notable dates.&nbsp; I also began collecting Welsh and German coins to honor their ancestry.&nbsp; Both have expressed interest and have promised to keep them in the family and pass them on to their kids.&nbsp; History told by coins, couldn&#039;t be better and more interesting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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