re: Coin collectors' thread

I grew up collecting coins with my father. He would but new eagles from a magazine and I would collect the state coins. Soon we got into peace and morgans. Now we have about 60 silver dollars from various years and mints.

My father used to work downtown and had befriended a guy that emptied parking meters. Somehow, my dad would get to pick through the coins and grab silver coins. Mostly pre-65 quarters and mercury dimes.

Another story, my father(about 70) would cut his grandmothers yard as a boy. She would give him a silver dollar each time. When he had saved enough to buy a motorcycle, his mother exchanged them for cash. His mother died about 20 years ago and had a trunk with her keep sakes that was raided by the family. My grandfather died a couple years ago and my father always felt like she had held onto the coins but had not seen them since. My grandfather would mention "coins" that he had but not much else. While we were going through his stuff we found what amounted to a single handful of peace dollars.

Most valuable coin came from my grandfather, an 1892 $20 gold coin.