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Is there a coin or token in your gift giving tradition?

ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Merry Christmas Everyone! May the blessing of all kinds be yours always ........ now and beyond <3

Did you include a coin or token for your love one (s) this year or are you expecting such gift from your spouse?

My nieces and nephews will be pleasantly surprise to find ASEs as Christmas gifts from Miss Santa this year; that is my hope BTW knowing what they really want (not need) AirPods / Echo etc etc gadget wise :/

<3

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No coins going or coming this year.....I am the patriarch of my family, and only one nephew was interested in coins... and now he is on a hiatus (females always win ;) ).... @Paradisefound .... Merry Christmas.... I hope your holidays are filled with family and friends....Cheers, RickO

  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 7,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My wife loves gorillas, so I picked up this Congo round and an ornament capsule so she can hang it on the tree.

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is very generous and thoughtful @Hallco

  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Paradisefound, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Back in the early 70s all the neices and nephews got 1 oz. silver art bars for Christmas every year (no ASEs back then). I tried to recall them all in 1980 and again in 2011 but no one responded. o:)

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  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We have a gift exchange amongst my siblings and our spouses on Christmas Eve, and one of my brothers-in-law always ends up with a proof American Silver Eagle and a case of Sam Adams beer. The rules of the exchange are kinda like a big game of "shaft" your buddy, and it's cutthroat, but he always ends up with that gift.

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 21, 2019 9:36AM

    My mom was born in the Chinese year of the pig so like you @Downtown1974 I gave her the year of the pig coin from Perth Mint last year and she was so thrilled and surprised to find un-usual gift:) B)

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    not me ;)

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 21, 2019 9:51AM

    I am a Year of the Pig baby, and I have five of the 1995 silver coin from Macau.

    Other than that, I have never gotten into it.

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Merry Christmas!

    Have and continue to give various coins and PM to the young ones in the extended family.

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss Dos Reales on Prospect?

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Silver dollar latkes was the best we could do.

    ;)

  • savitalesavitale Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My mother, now well into her senior years, continues to buy me a mint set and proof set every year. All things considered it is a very thoughtful gift.

    My daughter has started collecting America The Beautiful quarters and she is working on a Dansco type set. I'm trying to restrain myself from over-gifting. It's SOOOO tempting to slip a Trade Dollar into her stocking ...

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillDugan1959 said:
    @Weiss Dos Reales on Prospect?

    LOL! NO. NO no no no. No. While I love the name, I haven't eaten there in 10 years or more.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dos Reales is a favorite of one of my sisters who lives on the west side of town.

    I eat Pizza somewhere on Campus when I am in Chambana.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

    no, I haven't found anyone with an interest is coin or bar or token to give to so bah humbug

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm afraid not.

    Merry Christmas @Paradisefound

  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Do gifts to myself count? :)

    My Roosevelt Dime Registry Set
  • JeffnluJeffnlu Posts: 286 ✭✭✭✭

    I gave my one year old (on New Years Day) niece a ASE and my nephew to be born in January a rocketship and a silver proof set.

  • KudbegudKudbegud Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My father would give the current year Proof set to us. We would sit at the kitchen table and transfer the coins to our color Capital holder. My color was white. I still have them all.


  • ReadyFireAimReadyFireAim Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 21, 2019 11:58AM

    Children receive a coin when visiting from out of town.
    My dad doesn't know when it started but can remember it back in the early 40's
    For me, I can remember it as far back as the mid 70's

    My Saint Set

  • bsshog40bsshog40 Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't have anyone in my family or anyone I really know personally that collects. No coins going out here.

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  • JazzmanJABJazzmanJAB Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭✭

    I make Stars, similar to this, with uncirulated bills and attach a ribbon to back to hang on a tree. And give them away.

  • CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In 1986, I gave my daughter a full set (1/10, 1/4, 1/2 and 1oz) of Gold Eagles, along with one ASE... After that it's been one ASE a year... :)

  • Eric_BabulaEric_Babula Posts: 441 ✭✭✭✭

    Mele Kalikimaka, @Paradisefound !! No coins going in or out this year. Just wishing you Happy Holidays and a great New Year!

    Rocking my "shiny-object-syndrome"!!!

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have nephews and nieces........I will likely give each a birth-year ASE for the holidays this year.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

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  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sorry, its the best I can do.

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember the gold coin set your wifey surprised you last year <3

    @bsshog40 said:
    I don't have anyone in my family or anyone I really know personally that collects. No coins going out here.

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,614 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have been trying for years to get my wife and daughters to give me coins for my special day birthdays, anniversary's, fathers day, Christmas...my requests have fallen upon deaf ears.

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,863 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 21, 2019 11:07PM

    Each year, at high school graduation I give an ASE in an air-tite to the kids I know. Some years it’s 2 or 3, some years it’s 15. Some of them are puzzled. Most seem to think it’s cool. Virtually none of them have ever seen silver before.

    When my own kids graduate, it’s an AGE. They know darn well what it is. :)

  • bsshog40bsshog40 Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Paradisefound said:
    I remember the gold coin set your wifey surprised you last year <3

    @bsshog40 said:
    I don't have anyone in my family or anyone I really know personally that collects. No coins going out here.

    Sorry sweetie, I wished that was me. Lol Now my late wife bought me a 2005 $5 gold eagle for Christmas in 2005. Time flies huh?

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  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,162 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Merry Christmas Mele Kalikamaka Joyous New Year to you @Paradisefound I've passed out ASE's to family members in the past, last year a scallop shell coin for my daughter, I won a jar full of brand new shiny cents for a secret santa two years ago, but nothing coin related this year....just new $50.00 bills for some of my family, everybody loves money right??

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