BREAKFAST AT FRANKS

[Templar]

FRANKS IS A SMALL DINER OWNED BY A FORMER YUGOSLAVIAN.........ALMOST ALL OF HIS STAFF ARE FROM KOSOVO---SERBIA---ALBANIA--SOME FROM THE U.S.---ANYWAY THEY MAKE UP QUITE A DIVERSITY---AND OVER THE YEARS I HAVE BEEN BRINGING IN COINS AND NOTES AND THEY HAVE BEEN BRINGING IN SAMPLES OF THEIR COINS AND NOTES AND WE HAVE BEEN TRADING BACK AND FORTH AND I HAVE THE WAITRESSES LOOKING FOR ALL KINDS OF UNIQUE U.S. COINS AND BILLS THAT THEY TAKE IN FROM CUSTOMERS---WELL NIGHTHAWK HAS STARTED TO EAT THERE TOO SO IT HAS BECOME A NUMISMATIC DINER WITH ALL KINDS OF CUSTOMERS BRINGING IN MONEY---ASKING QUESTIONS----SWAPPING CHANGE........YESTERDAY, DORIE FROM ALBANIA, GAVE ME A ONE DOLLAR NOTE I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU........HOPE YOU LIKE IT AND THE STORY--------TEMPLAR

[Templar]

HERE IS THE BACK SIDE OF THE ALBANIAN NOTE-----HOPE SOME OF YOU HAVE A DINER NEAR YOUR WHERE YOU MIGHT MEET SOME INTERESTING PEOPLE.........THANKS FOR LOOKING........THE TEMPLAR

[TwoShadows]

Coins and notes that we all receive in this way (even from our own Knights and Knightesses) have a story embedded with them. Those stories will remain with us for the rest of our lives and they will always carry a value coins bought from a dealer or unknown source will never have. Darn it, now I have to add Franks to my list of things to do!

[Nighthawk]

Mrs. Nighthawk & I have been regulars there now for breakfast for close to 3 months or so, every Saturday morning, and a couple of times for dinner during the week. We got all those waitresses I think, interested in foreign coins & paper money. Today I left 3 Irish 1/2 pennies (along with my tip, of course!) for Dorey, and I have been giving Lydia world notes to help her start a paper money collection of her own. The girls are thrilled every time we leave them with something like that. It makes me enjoy my hobby even more!