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| Passion Investments: Coins |
Heads or Tales
Catherine Curan
10/01/2005
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The coins he will bestow on his
heirs tell stories about important relationships and periods in Abdul-Jabbar’s
life. A commemorative Booker T. Washington Memorial half dollar from his mother
awakened an interest in numismatics when he was a boy. The Saint-Gaudens recalls
his youth in New York, where he became a fan of the artist after viewing his
statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman near Central Park. A Chinese gold
coin from Bruce Lee survived a fire at Abdul-Jabbar’s house and is the last
present he received from Lee before the actor’s death in 1973.
“It’s very
important to me,” Abdul-Jabbar says of his collection. “There’s sentimental
value, worth and history. It makes all those things connect.”
Catherine Curan is a New York–based journalist who writes about business,
culture and style.
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