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About Me:

I am not a collector: My great grandfather was, and I inherited his collection that he had acquired from all over the world. He was born in 1868 and died in 1954. My grandmother inherited his collection, then it was passed down to my aunt when her mother, my grandmother, passed away in the mid-1990s. My aunt then gave the collection to her brother, my father, who forgot he even had them. In 2009 he gave the collection to me. I sold some of the silver coins before a "friend" stole the rest of the old US silver dollars and left me the foreign coins and a bunch of old pennies.

When she did that to me, I just put the rest of the coins aside, not wanting to even look at them because it made me upset remembering why the rest of the coins were no longer in the box.

One day I decided to go through the foreign coins and the wheat pennies, not thinking anything of real value was left after they'd been picked through. In the mix there ended up being 3 mint state high quality 1909 S VDB wheat pennies and some other coins of high value. 

It couldn't have come at a better time since we are trying to start a business after the company we'd worked for for many years was bought out and bankrupted by non other than Goldman Sachs. All the employees immediately lost their jobs, their paychecks, their incomes, and that was that.

My great grandfather was a well-known and highly respected Cuban General, and after the war he became Cuba's Ambassador to several Latin American countries, and in his last post before retiring he was Cuba's Ambassador to China and Japan. He traveled the world and the three 1909 S VDB pennies  must have been acquired at the same time because they all looked almost identical and were graded as such. 

Thanks for reading this and I hope you will contact me if you have any questions or comments.