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How I Became a Gold-Bug - Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com

I normally don't comment but my story is so similar I couldn't resist.

I was raised by my Great Grandmother. We didn't have much but she was able to keep a small stash of cash in a safe deposit box. She had lived through the depression and didn't trust banks. Several time a year we would trek to the bank to get a little cash or for her to count the stash. While she was doing her business I was free to look at the other contents of the box. During one trip I found a $5 gold piece (1914-S Indian Head Half Eagle) mounted in a plain gold necklace. From that day on I was fascinated by that piece. When she died she ask what I wanted and of course selected the necklace. After nearly 60 years I still have it.

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Beginning of the headline :My father was Hugo Salinas Rocha -"Salinas" was his father's surname, and "Rocha" was his mother's surname; the custom of using both parents' surnames is universal in Latin America. Father was a successful merchant in Mexico City, and in the 1930's he ran a store in downtown Mexico City. The store belonged to a company founded by his father, Benjamin Salinas Westrup and to the partner he took into the business, his brother-in-law, Joel Rocha Barocio; the company name used their initials: "SyR" (... Read More

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