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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;onecenter, post: 321551, member: 8703&quot;]I have several favorite coins.&nbsp; The coins that come to mind are almost all from circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>An 1859 Indian Head cent given to me by my grandmother to start my collection in 1969 at age 8.&nbsp; She also gave me an 1842 large cent, an 1864 two-cent piece, a 1942-S Washington Quarter, a Whitman folder of about 30 Mercury dimes, two 1941 Walking Liberty half dollars and an 1882-H Canadian large cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first gold coin I ever purchased, the 1982 Canadian $100 Constitution patriation commemorative proof.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1878 Morgan dollar my father brought home from his store&#039;s cash register.&nbsp; A small boy bought a dozen cupcakes in my dad&#039;s bakery with the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the 1964 Kennedy half dollars my mother slipped under the pillow each time a lost a baby tooth.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Royal Canadian Mint commemorative-wrapped roll of 20 1982 Constitution dollars handed to me as &quot;change&quot; at a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch in Eaton Centre, Toronto in the year of issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>A .100-silver 1957 Mexican peso I received in change from a man selling carmelated milk candy (delicious, by the way) at the pyramids at Tenochititlan, Mexico in February 1975.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mark</p><p>Coral Springs, FL[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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