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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ag76, post: 3538140, member: 100584&quot;]What coins do you still have from your childhood? If you have pictures, especially of crusty old 2X2s with outdated prices on them, please post them!</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>I grew up in a family without much money. My father went to prison when I was young and wasn&#039;t a factor from then on. My mother put herself through college with the help of a Christian charity and then took a job teaching in private school, which pays a lot less than public school. Our income was only just above the poverty line, and I went to work at age 13. Most of what I earned went toward the family, but I did have some left over to spend. Until I was about 15 or 16 and coins lost out to other interests, I spent a lot of what I had left over on coins. My brother and I basically shared a collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>When my daughter became interested in coins a few months ago, it re-fired my interest. Over Christmas, we went to my parents&#039; place (my mother remarried when I was in college), and I asked if I could take home the coin collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was still there, but much diminished from what I remembered. Nothing was in folders; my mother had dumped all the coins into a metal box, and the ones that weren&#039;t still in 2X2s were just rattling around raw.</p><p><br /></p><p>I took it home and offered my brother half of the value, which wasn&#039;t much, but he demurred and told me he&#039;d raided the collection many a time for &quot;7/11 money.&quot; So that explains why the collection was so much smaller than I remembered! It also explains why most of what was left consisted of world coins - they couldn&#039;t be raided for 7/11 money.</p><p><br /></p><p>After that, I protected much of what was worth protecting, but I had a sentimental attachment to the original, dog-eared 2X2s and didn&#039;t want to cut them up. Then I hit on a solution: I&#039;ll just photograph the 2X2s and then cut the coins out and protect them properly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll be posting here pictures of that portion of my &quot;kid stash&quot; that has at least some nontrivial numismatic value. Almost all of these coins were acquired in the 1985 to 1991 period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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