Micro O Discovery: A ‘Secret Treasure’ of My Own

My first memory of looking for certain dates on coins or Barr notes was with my father when I was young. My mother was a waitress, and we would often help with the counting and rolling of the tips she brought home. Whenever we found something noteworthy (forgive the pun), my father – a collector of trinkets and oddities of all kinds – would ceremoniously stash it away for safekeeping. I was fascinated by the idea of finding secret treasures in something as commonplace as currency. My interest in coins took a backseat as bicycles, motorcycles, fishing and a long list of other things occupied my interests as a young boy in the 1970s.

When my father passed away in 2003, I volunteered to spearhead the splitting of his