Day 7 - favorite coins

Collecting things started early. I collected PSU college football game pins, quartz crystals (sold door to door), stamps, and then coins like wheat pennies, silver dimes and quarters and silver dollars; when we went to Europe as a kid, I went crazy with a whole bag of coins. Here are a few of my favorites: 

1977 Sweden 1 Krona

1976-Denver Bicentennial Eisenhower $1 dollar coin

1943 Steel WWII Wheat Penny set (Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco mintages)

China spade money



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