Collecting

I collect Jefferson nickels. 

Now there is a statement which makes any coin collector's eyes glaze!  No one likes Jefferson nickels,the local coin shops do not even stock them!  My interest I blame on Lewis and Clark, I think it was in second grade and the was some sort of a celebration remembering them and their trek across North America in 1802 - 1804.  A traveling exhibit came to the local NATO base, films abounded in the school system and my imagination was fired ....  I started collecting nickels.  I was such a fiend that my father would put out a dime and a nickel and tell my sister and I take the one we wanted.  Somer, always went for the dime, I took the nickel because I did not care about the money - it was Thomas Jefferson and my fascination with his Corps of Discovery ....  Did not matter how many times father hit me or how many names he called me, my will was far stronger than his and I liked Jefferson - not him ...

Father was always infuriated that I would not take the more valuable coin.  Sigh.  His way or the highway always.

So, my mind is now empty.  I shall retire and continue my nickel inventory effort - at one month and continuing ...