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Posted By: Jim Dale

My favorite from my mother focused on the coin collection her dad built for her and was passed on to me. My grand father rode a horse to San Francisco from Stockton each year in the 1910 to 1916 and picked up "mint sets" of a sort from the SF Mint. He always picked up the year being produced and a year back from his first trip. The last year he picked up was the 1895 set from the SF mint. The next year the delta flooded and he didn't make the trip and then stopped going all together...the next year would have been an 1894 set if it was there (I doubt it would have been considering the number of dimes they made that year (like 20 I think). Dang flood.