One of my best gifts to my parents
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It was always hard buying gifts for my parents---they had what they needed. Years ago for their anniversary (I think it was a 40th)--I went to a local coin shop and got a common franklin half dollar---super luster, shiny (probably cleaned and ungradeable) from the year they got married. Cost less than $20. At dinner I presented it to them and said the coin from the year they were married was as shiny and in good shape as they were today. They loved it.
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My Dad was "actively uninterested" in coins. Yet when I showed him a 1929 SLQ, his birth year, he did show some actual interest....at least for a moment.
It was always hard buying gifts for my parents---they had what they needed. Years ago for their anniversary (I think it was a 40th)--I went to a local coin shop and got a common franklin half dollar---super luster, shiny (probably cleaned and ungradeable) from the year they got married. Cost less than $20. At dinner I presented it to them and said the coin from the year they were married was as shiny and in good shape as they were today. They loved it.
That's a great idea! On my parents 50th anniversary in 2012, we bought several items from 1962 including a 1962 proof set . Again, like your gift, not expensive. However, they were very moved and thrilled by the gesture and proudly display it in their living room. I think there is a little bit of a numismatist in all of us
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