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Thanks Grandma!

BustDMsBustDMs Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

My first bust half dollar from Granny’s cigar box.


Q: When does a collector become a numismatist?



A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.



A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.

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  • bronzematbronzemat Posts: 2,646 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A very attractive example.

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,810 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Missing part of the arrow shafts.....how cool is that!

    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 6,916 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Way to go grandma.
    Gives me that tingly feeling knowing it was passed on.

    Wayne

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • wayfarerwayfarer Posts: 93 ✭✭✭

    Nice, a memory that will always remain.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,791 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice coin

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice... GrandMa was a coin collector?? What else is there in the cigar box?? Inquiring minds want to know... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 16,789 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @WAYNEAS said:
    Way to go grandma.
    Gives me that tingly feeling knowing it was passed on.

    Wayne

    Beautiful memory, beautiful coin.

    "Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!

    --- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.
  • truebloodtrueblood Posts: 609 ✭✭✭✭

    And in your family for a long time, nothing better than that

  • USSID17USSID17 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Grandma understood the meaning of family heirloom!

  • BustDMsBustDMs Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    Very nice... GrandMa was a coin collector?? What else is there in the cigar box?? Inquiring minds want to know... ;) Cheers, RickO

    Grandma just had a cigar box of odd and unusual. Only things I can definitely identify as hers is this half and an Indian quarter eagle. Rest was some Mercury dimes and the like. Nothing else special.

    Q: When does a collector become a numismatist?



    A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.



    A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.

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