Husband's bent thinking improves two sets!

I never meant my posts to be a weekly feature of the NCS Journal Page, but apparently it looks as if I have been doing just that.

So, Mrs. Jingles' birthday is coming up in April. I never know what to get her and often lament over it and end up with flowers and dinner or some such thing. This year she has probably been wondering what she is going to get since I have been spending our money on coins. Then a brilliant idea entered my head....

BUY HER A COIN!

Ok, so I have to be honest. I bought myself a coin to upgrade our #1 set and in doing so have an extra coin in a particular year slot, so.....TADA! Mrs. Jingles gets a new(ish) coin for her set! YAY! She has a great poker face too. I know she is bubbling with excitement, but she is holding it in so well.

My now good friend Glenn Smick and I chatted again this week and another piece of his set has found a new home. I am very proud to be able to add this beautiful 1884 to the set. It is my second DPL coin and this one is CAC certified as well! I have included a photo, but it does not do the coin justice. I am going to have the entire set professionally photgraphed later this month.

As proud as I am about the set in general, more specifically I am proud of the provenance of the set as I have obtained several of the coins from some of the hobby's top collectors. This makes the fourth coin from the Glenn Smick Collection that I have added and have decided to rename my #1 set to pay homage to the person who has helped me the most in not only finishing my set, but helping me improve it AND start a second set (yeah Glenn, Mrs. Jingles really thanks you for that).

As of this morning my #1 set was renamed The Boglen Gems. I chose Boglen because it is the name of a hybrid of the Terrier family of dogs. A beautiful creature that came to be as the result of combining two bloodlines: A Beagle and Boston Terrier. As I was researching names I thought this was perfect as the Boglen Gems set is a hybrid as well. It was pretty odd that the name fits almost perfectly too!

Oh yeah, my wife's birthday present. Could I be anymore thoughtful or romantic? Ok, to be honest she will still get a bouquet of flowers (even bigger this year) and I will let her pick the restaurant for her birthday dinner. Golden Corral was getting a little old anyway...

The journey contines.

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