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Special Christmas gift (coin)
mustanggt
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So what are the odds that you would find a coin counter stamped with your name and the city from the country that your ancestors are from. The picture below is of such a coin. My son found it and had it slabbed so that my wife could give it to me for Christmas. Correct first initial and the same spelling for the last name. Edinburgh, Scotland What do you think?
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Cool!
That's a keeper!
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And here is the closeup.
Great coin and family.
Really sweet gift.
Awesome, I love it!
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That is an amazing find and an incredible gift....A keeper and a family heirloom in the future. Cheers, RickO
That is a treasure!
A family heirloom for sure! Merry Christmas.
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Very cool counter stamp and a nice gift! AB
What an awesome and amazing gift!!! holy smokes!!!
That's an interesting COINcidence!
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Looks like fate to me!
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Very cool pops! The series of 'fortunate' events that both lead to its initial creation then finding it's way to you guys all these decades later. That kind of stuff always fascinates me.
I found a Peace dollar a while back, owned by @lordmarcovan I believe that had an old engraving "From Leroy, to Leroy" so I sent it to Leroy Van Allen as a gift. Boy did he like it.
Can't imagine your face on Christmas morning. Hope your boy got a pic of it
That's really something !
Very very cool! I found a lovetoken with @lordmarcovan 's initials, so got that for him for secret santa last year. This takes the cake though!
Very, very cool!
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I would say the face was a little more panic since my mom and dad had agreed not to buy gifts for each other. So when handed the gift it was more of a whats this and why?
From all I could find this is a unknown counterstamp. A friend of mine found it in a counterstamp group and showed it to me. He knew he was not getting it back. I got the coin at the June Long Beach, that was a long time to keep it under wraps.
Neat coin, neat story. Now you need to travel to Scotland and do some research to find out who and why this was counter stamped this way. I will wait for the rest of the story...
way cool
Way cool. Fitting as Roger is one cool dude
Todd well done
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What a thoughtful son and wife Very cool gift. Priceless no doubt.
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What a great story! And coin, too!
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Cool coin... is there any history known about R. Pollock in Edinburgh? ...other than its your name... lol!!
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That is so cool Roger.......I look for family initials all the time (as you know)....glad Todd saw that and smart to get it and grade it....
Probably the same grade as you are today....'eh there Scotty boy?
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Thanks for the comments.
I will have it at FUN if you want to see it in hand.
Very nice how that came to be, congrats!
I'm glad to hear it. That was a funny coin.
Aha! So that mystery is solved, now! Thank you, Santa!
I still have it. Planning to put it on the trademark hat, whenever I get around to giving that a new lease on life. I sold all the gold coins off of it in my "Great Purge" of 2013, when I parted ways with my holey coin collection.