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muman613:
Two Sundays ago I finally had my Pidyon HaBen for which we had a Seudah Mitzvah at my Rabbis home. It is a mitzvah meal which we had that day...

Here I am giving the coins to the Kohen:



The Pidyon HaBen ceremony consists of giving the Kohen five silver coins:



PS: Now you Siyum, Now you don't...

edu:
Mazel Tov on the Pidyon Haben.
It would probably be helpful to other Jews to explain to them the details of this mitzva and that it applies even to adults, if their parents had not done one for them already.
Did you use a standard Cohain for your Pidyon?
I ask because there is a story told about the Vilna Gaon, that he gave for himself Pidyon Haben money to different Cohanim (plural of Cohain) because, he was afraid that some of the Cohanim, might be invalid for one reason or another.
When he met up with a Cohain who had a Ktav Yichus, (a certified document of lineage), he stopped looking for additional Cohanim and relied on the Pidyon Haben that he gave that man.
Probably, this is just a chumra, above the real requirement of halacha.
I myself have not had to deal directly with this issue, because one of the exemptions of this mitzva applies to me.

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