Ever have a "worthless" coin bring back fond memories?

Bochiman

I went to visit/help out my mother this last week (she lives outside of Las Vegas). She was recovering from pneumonia (3 weeks of being sick and didn't tell us so I was upset) and I spent the couple of days I was there trying to make things better.

One of the things I did was to clean out some of my old stuff from the garage that she, and my step-dad, before he died, hauled down there via truck from Washington State a few years back. When cleaning them out, I found some old coins. Most of them US....BUT (and this is why it is on this forum), I also found 1 foreign coin in the batch.

I found a Diez Pesos piece from 1976. Only one I have from Mexico. I went there back in high school (part of spanish class). It cost us a lot of money, but mom sacrificed so I could go.

Is the coin worth anything monetarily? Nope. Would I get rid of it? Nope!!!!

So, the coin now sits on my desk, above my keyboard, and is a reminder of 20 years ago for me (the trip was 20 years ago, not the coin's age), and is a reminder of the fun I had there.

Anyone else have any coins like that? From a different country that has no real value other than the memories?

DBSTrader2

TONS of my collection are special to me! All my U.S. Whitman folders which I started collecting as a kid with the help of my Grandparents hold that special meaning to me & remind me of them. The Aussie "Roo" Penny I found in one of my relative's junk box that started me on that branch of collecting always has held a special place in my heart as well. And the circulated Canadian coins in Whitman folders that started me along that path after several visits to Canada as a kid always bring back fond memories! All worth more than their collective weights in gold to me!!

- - Dave

Sylvestius

I've got several, some pulled from circ, some given to me by relatives.

One coin stands out more than most and this is my George III penny (Grading Fair), i dunno but i just like the look of George III copper in such low grades. This coin though was one of my first coins (i didn't just get one when i started i got given a whole tin full by my father), the vast majority of them have been traded out and sold on in recent years, meaning i have fewer and fewer of my originals left, approximately two dozen or so. Many of those are Spanish coins of Franco, a 1953 Franklin half, a 1944 Washington Quarter (currently residing somewhere in a jar full of other quarters), a few other old British coins, but the penny was always my favourite by a mile because it was my oldest coin. Even more so since i sold my VF 1887 Shilling (i loved that coin!)

I suppose as i continually sell stuff on, i guess that the George III penny will probably end up being the sole survivor one day.

Here's a pic... (what you can see of it!) Funny how i kept the copper one though?

ClausUrch

I have a few such sentimental coins. This one comes to mind. On a trip to Germany while in Jr. High School to visit my Granparents in the late 1960's, my Grandmother and I stopped by The Dredsner Bank where she purchased this coin for me; 1963 Luxemburg 250 Franc Commemorative. In my later teen years, I sold this coin along with most of my collection "for a few crumbs and a place to hide". Lately, everytime I come across one of these coins, I buy it. I currently have 7 of the 10,000 minted and will continue to buy everyone I come across just to say, "Thanks, Grandma.".