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Got a surprise xmas gift just now...

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Back from the wife's family's celebration. Her uncle died last year, and this year his widow (my wife's aunt) passed what was left of his collection to me.

He owned a general store in a small farm town way back in the day, and he pulled things he thought were interesting out of the till. He'd shown them to me a few years back. He was almost 90 when he passed away.

Care to guess what lies within?

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We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,794 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't know about the guessing part but I'd like to know!

    bobimage
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  • claychaserclaychaser Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
    Seated coins??image


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  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    Definitely some seated image

    choice Barbers too?
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As we open the small sized Whitman folder...

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    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,491 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow!

    What an amazing gift!

    Open more of it...............
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • Dawg144Dawg144 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭
    .25 gold? Wow, great gift indeed image.
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The next page...

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    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • waynemewayneme Posts: 852 ✭
    I Vote for the You Suck Award
    Neat This is Kwel Thanks for posting image
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    Given that the 1943 cent looks lightly circulated, it may indicate when that marvelous little set was put together.
    member, Greater Houston Coin Club - Edwin's Coin Cabinet
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's page 3...


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    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,954 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Merry Christmas! What a Treasure!image
    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow... outstanding gift... what a neat surprise. Cheers, RickO
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And the fractional currency...

    image

    So tomorrow I'll get better holders for the coins and currency. I don't think I'll submit anything for slabbing, but I might use a little acetone on some of the pieces that were taped into the album.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,292 ✭✭✭✭
    does the 1938 walker half have a D mintmark?

    greg

    www.brunkauctions.com

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>does the 1938 walker half have a D mintmark?

    greg >>



    Just a plain '38. Would've been cool, though, huh? image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • coinman420coinman420 Posts: 4,666 ✭
    thats a very cool gift, thanks for sharing.image
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  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    BEAUTIFUL WEISS!!! thanks for sharing ! georgeous and Id keep it just as-is image
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  • BLcoinnutBLcoinnut Posts: 76
    Very nice
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  • NHSBaseballNHSBaseball Posts: 2,470 ✭
    Love the circ Columbian.image
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  • YaHaYaHa Posts: 4,220 ✭
    Very Nice. Happy Xmas to you me friend. Grand Pa had a great eye for coins I must say.
  • CaseyCasey Posts: 1,502 ✭✭
    That's really cool! Also love the circ. Columbian. Can you post the reverse?
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That's really cool! Also love the circ. Columbian. Can you post the reverse? >>



    Reverse of the Columbian...

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    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool suprise.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wowie, zowie.

    Love that red IHC!

    If I ever get into paper currency (which seems doubtful, but you never know), that Fractional Currency could be the enticement, since colonials are probably prohibitively expensive. (I dig some of that German notgeld, too.)

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  • direwolf1972direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭
    Sounds like Santa thought someone had been very nice this year. image
    I'll see your bunny with a pancake on his head and raise you a Siamese cat with a miniature pumpkin on his head.

    You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.


  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    Very nice...thanks for sharing. I hope you keep it as is and eventually pass it on down to your heirs.image
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  • greghansengreghansen Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭
    Pretty neat stuff. Thanks for letting us look.

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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are those perchance PCGS coin numbers on the Whitman?
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  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WOW !!!!!!!!
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