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A coin collector's birthday

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Revenant

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I got my big surprise that my wife and her mother have been sitting on for about a month and a half yesterday.

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It would seem that, while in Pennsylvania for work, her mother stopped at the Philadelphia mint, too the tour and these things.

The Silver Eagle and the birthday set were for me, the coin explorer book was for Ben and the birth year set was for Sam.

She also got a bag from the mint that’s also pretty cool.

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The book for Ben is pretty neat to look at. I hope he finds interesting later on.

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The 2019 Proof SAE is an interesting addition. I have one from 1986, 2006, and 2007. I had plans at one point to build a set of them in the original mint packaging but I never have enough budget for all of my projects so it didn’t have much in the way of legs 12 years ago. Now that I have a 2019 I’ll definitely be looking to pick up a 2016 for Ben at minimum.

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I love that she got Sam the Birthyear set. If I’d realized they made those at the time I would have bought one for Ben. Apparently when she was there they had them for 2017, 2018, and 2019 but were out of 2016. I went on eBay and they had them for 2014, 2015, and 2017-2019. Of course, no 2016. I made a saved search on my account, just in case one pops up. I’d love to have one for both of them, but, either way, I’ll make sure they both have plenty of things from their birthyear.

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After dinner I was holding Sam and told him, “Your grandma claims she gave you a present. In truth, she has gifted you with a few hours of boredom about 10 or 15 years from now when you have to hear me drone on and on about these things.”

I was quite pleased. I'd say my mother-in-law hit it out of the park with this.

The new 2nd dollar sets (except for the P-48a, which just made it through customs in New York) are in the 2nd dollar set on my registry now. The set is now 75% complete.

I’m headed out of town tomorrow. I’ll be back over the weekend and then flying out again on another week-long trip. So I won’t be imaging the new notes and getting those pictures uploaded immediately, but that’s something I’ll be looking forward too.

Of course, celebrations don’t last, and it’s never dull: Ben spiked a 103 degree fever today, so that’s had us pretty busy, taking care of him and keeping him separated from Sam.

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Good times, happy birthday, and thoughtful gifts! I got coins for my birthday once from my daughter. She ordered me the 2013-W West Point SAE set with the enhanced finish and reverse proof.

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Happy birthday.....I hope your enjoying your wonderful presents I try to get the birth years for the ASE in proofs for the grandchildren.   

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On 10/21/2019 at 12:09 PM, gherrmann44 said:

Good times, happy birthday, and thoughtful gifts! I got coins for my birthday once from my daughter. She ordered me the 2013-W West Point SAE set with the enhanced finish and reverse proof.

Thanks! Funny thing was, they were wrapped separately. I opened the proof eagle last. Having owned others, when I was unwrapping it I said, "this feels about the same size and weight as a silver eagle," and I was right. I think that surprised them.

On 10/25/2019 at 9:42 PM, thisistheshow said:

Happy belated birthday! 

 

 

Thank you! It was a good day!

Of course, the next day Ben spikes a 103 fever and it's back to dad-life. Lol

On 10/27/2019 at 8:54 PM, Iceman said:

Happy birthday.....I hope your enjoying your wonderful presents I try to get the birth years for the ASE in proofs for the grandchildren.   

It was a great day. I hadn't realized they had those sets or I might have gotten one for Ben. Maybe I can get lucky and snag one on the secondary market later on.

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