My Box of Unique Treasurers
My Box of Unique Treasurers
With a blog called Me Myself and Memories how could I not have some unique treasurers. Several decades ago I had gone to a trade show with Dennis and I was taken by turquoise jewelry that the Native American Zuni tribe of Pueblo Indians that live along the Little Colorado River hand crafted. The pattern was called Needlepoint. I acquired the belt buckle first and in time found a pair of earrings and then a ring.
When I was still working for Watonwan County, the mail brought a surprise from son Kevin. Working for and then going on to owning Herzog Printing, Kevin had found among old file drawers a pocket calender notebook from the year 1944 — my birth year. Very unusual that these notebooks were saved from one year to the next as new ones were printed and handed out on a yearly basis.
In the recent past Dennis has been going to trade shows solo and coming home letting me know he was thinking of me. First came the 1944 pennies, one of which is a 1944 D — marking the mint it came from. The nickel is a 1944 with 40% silver content. Coming home from the Sioux Fall trade show he could hardly contain himself. For Valentine’s Day he had a 1944 silver quarter and a 1944 silver half dollar. I can only imagine the shoe leather he wore out scoping out table after table of dealers. With me being a World War II war baby there were not a huge amount of silver coins minted. In 1944 there were no silver dollars made.
Once I was given these last two coins by a remarkable romantic cowboy, I knew I had to bring my goodies to one place for safe keeping. Dennis and I are a wealth of items to re-purpose and thus this box became my box of unique treasurers. Perhaps in time to come Dennis will find a 1944 dime. He has already been told “good luck on that.”