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Coins And A Life: How It All Adds Up
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
June 16, 2008| Author:
Eric Timar
| Copyright 2008 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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After my father died and my mother moved into an apartment, I
wound up with his coin collection. Calling it a "collection" is
generous; many of the U.S. coins were kept in bags or tubes, barely
sorted. Foreign coins were in a global melting pot, with shiny
sailboats on Bahamian quarters becalmed amid postwar German
pfennigs. Among a handful of dull and virtually worthless Austrian
coins was a nearly solid-silver 100-shilling commemorative of the
1976 Innsbruck Olympics.
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