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Went back to the USA for the last two weeks to see Mom on her 89th Birthday. I was telling her about my Metal Detecting hobby, and she mentions that tin can my family use to fill up with foreign coins from travels and friends we collected over the decades. I thought maybe with the silver prices increasing, just maybe there would be a few to separate as keepers, so decided to go through it but postponed it until the last couple of days of my visit.
<<<<<<FLASHBACK 25 YEARS AGO<<<<<<<
Needing some freedom money for a round the world trip, I told my father that I was going to sell my coin collection. Being the great Dad he always was, he said he'd buy them from me (overpaid, of course) and sell them later on, making it easier for me to leave on the trip the following day. Never thought about those coins for 25 years, until recently when I joined TreasureNet, and started getting those remorse feelings we all get from long lost stupid moves.
>>>>>FAST FORWARD to November 15, 2009>>>>>
I open the old family tin can full of foreign coins, spilled them out on the carpet, and lo and behold, there is part of my long wished for old coin collection. Dad died 3 years back, but he was ever present as I lifted each and every coin, good condition or bad, important or not, out of the pile. Guess he knew what he was doing, as he always did. And I can't stop smiling, either. Thanks, Dad.
May this experience visit everyone....
PICS:
First, is a 1921 Peace dollar. (2 sides)
Second, is a Stone Mountain 1925 50c, that I had found in change in the 60's. (2 sides)
Third, is 4 Silver dollars..1881-O... 1891...1921 x 2. (2 sides)
Fourth, is a handful of silver.
Fifth, is a handful of 40% silver.
<<<<<<FLASHBACK 25 YEARS AGO<<<<<<<
Needing some freedom money for a round the world trip, I told my father that I was going to sell my coin collection. Being the great Dad he always was, he said he'd buy them from me (overpaid, of course) and sell them later on, making it easier for me to leave on the trip the following day. Never thought about those coins for 25 years, until recently when I joined TreasureNet, and started getting those remorse feelings we all get from long lost stupid moves.
>>>>>FAST FORWARD to November 15, 2009>>>>>
I open the old family tin can full of foreign coins, spilled them out on the carpet, and lo and behold, there is part of my long wished for old coin collection. Dad died 3 years back, but he was ever present as I lifted each and every coin, good condition or bad, important or not, out of the pile. Guess he knew what he was doing, as he always did. And I can't stop smiling, either. Thanks, Dad.
May this experience visit everyone....
PICS:
First, is a 1921 Peace dollar. (2 sides)
Second, is a Stone Mountain 1925 50c, that I had found in change in the 60's. (2 sides)
Third, is 4 Silver dollars..1881-O... 1891...1921 x 2. (2 sides)
Fourth, is a handful of silver.
Fifth, is a handful of 40% silver.
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Some of those older commemorative coins are worth some money. 
Don't sell that one for melt.... Heh 
