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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 4775953, member: 4910&quot;]My grandmother Elsa (1896-1978) was a coin collector. She was my mother&#039;s mother and lived in Chicago.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the late 1940&#039;s to the early 1950&#039;s she had US coin albums for cents, nickels, and dimes. She acquired coins from circulation but may have occasionally bought coin rolls to look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>She managed to find some rare coins including a 1909-S VDB cent, a 3-legged Buffalo nickel, and a 1916-D dime. She also managed to save some Indian Head cents including a 1908-S.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_c01_1908s_indian.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>United States Indian Head Cent 1908-S</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1958 she and her husband moved to California to be near her daughter and grandchildren.</p><p><br /></p><p>She moved away from coins in the late 1950&#039;s to concentrate on oil painting and genealogy.</p><p><br /></p><p>At some time in the 1960&#039;s she accumulated a bunch of silver half-dollars and quarters which my mother found in the 1990&#039;s on the top back shelf of a closet.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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