re: Coin collectors' thread

I'm not much of a coin collector, but I order a few boxes of half dollars from the bank every month. I have built a nice little horde of silver doing this. I usually find 2-3 40% silver halves in each box.

I also have a 1900 New Orleans mint silver dollar. The story goes that a general store owner in Houma would give a silver dollar to all his customers when they had a baby. My Gramma saved the 9 silver dollars he gave her, and gave them to my dad, aunts and uncles at Christmas one year.