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Kids and gold

CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
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We had two ladies in this afternoon looking at our antiquities department, and one of them had her 10-year-old daughter with her. As they were leaving they walked past my desk, and say that I was working on some gold bars.

The mother pointed them out to the daughter, so I said to the girl come around to the side of my desk. I held a tray out and told her to put her hand out over the tray. When she did, I dropped a kilo into her palm from a height of about three inches.

Gawd, you should have seen the look on her face!!! Her mom got a picture of it to show her father!

LOL!

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Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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  • bestmrbestmr Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭
    Heh, I'd have the same look!! Just not as cute. image
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  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭
    How is her reaction any different than any one of us? We all woulda had that gleam in our eyes!
  • RobbRobb Posts: 2,034 ✭
    You wouldn't have seen the gleam in my eyes but the hairs on the back of my head. image
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,509 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think her reaction had more to do with the heavy weight of the bar in such a small bar. Most people just don't realize how heavy gold is.

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