Re: A new collector!
- From: Edwin Johnston <edi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:59:31 -0600
Wes Chormicle wrote:
My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I gave him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After going through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every Friday he wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every week I would bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't know is that each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are very low grade, like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty gritty! 4 holes left.... 09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S.
I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look back and smile at the effort his dad went to!
When my brother and I were kids (back in the early 1960s), our dad and grandpa used to go out with us for long leisurely walks. Remarkably my brother and I would regularly find some coins strewn along the paths of these walks, amazingly in exactly equal numbers. When we told out other grandfather about such finds, we began to find coins when out with him as well.
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