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What is your favorite coin story? It can be about the coin itself or how you obtained it.
One of my earliest childhood memories was a trip to St. Augustine, Florida, where my parents took me to the “fort made out of seashells” from the early Spanish explorers. My father bought me a replica 8 reals pillar of Hercules coin. Some 60 years later, I have this coin and a genuine specimen side-by-side. The facsimile coin from all those years ago remains my favorite coin in my collection.
Fred S.
Back when I was in high school in 2002, I went to buy a Coke from the Coke machine. The kid in front of me put his quarters in the machine, but one of the quarters kept coming back out. After the third time, he turned around to me and asked if
