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Message:: [QUOTE="Garlicus, post: 2388958, member: 73190"]1977 is the year that my great uncle died. He was a coin and stamp collector. Most of his collection was auctioned by Sotheby's, other parts were randomly sold off, and about a dozen remaining coins I still have, just the way he left them, in old cardboard 2x2s. I also have a boat load of old stamps, if anyone out there collects and is looking for items from the 30s-60s. Probably nothing special, other than a couple that I am aware of. He was single and had lived with my widowed grandmother. After he passed, when my mother would visit my grandmother, I always spent time going through my uncle's "cool stuff" that he had in his little 7x12 "hobby room" - stamps, coins, WWII stuff, 40's & 50's knick-knacks, etc... One time, I found 100 sequentially numbered $20s tucked away in his closet, which I promptly gave to my grandmother. I wonder how many kids today would find that stuff interesting/exciting, as opposed to sitting around playing their video games. It was an adventure that I enjoyed. Here's one that I inherited: [ATTACH=full]490572[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]490573[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]