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Hi guy's,

On January 15th i started a collection of US coins.
I never collected coins before so i was looking for some information about it and i stumbled upon this and other great sites with information.

As i live in Belgium it is not very easy to get your hands on some coins from the US, at least that is what i thought.
I registered myself on this forum, introduced myself and told what i wanted to collect,....
Result, my inbox with private messages got flooded with people asking my address to send me some coins
From this forum alone i am expecting 10 packages to get here, and on another forum there are 4 packages on its way to me

Now, to send packages from the US to Belgium it takes a while, (between 7 days and 2 weeks i have been told)
But then i got an idea, someone from my workplace was just on vacation to the US, so i asked her if she had some coins left.
She had, and she gave them to me.
No special coins as far as i know, but hey, a man has to start a collection somewhere and i was very happy with them.

Meanwhile i was browsing the internet and i found some nice coins i would like, but all to expensive for me at the moment.
I found silver dollars and i loved them.
The only thing is that i don't have much cash to spare at this moment (but that will change soon) so i cant buy them yet.

And then it happens:
There was a contest on this forum.
All participants will get a prize and there was a grand prize for the winner.
I thought to myself, what should i do and eventually i started to write a piece about the Belgian 1 franc piece and its history (Prize for all participating + A Grand Prize
I never won anything before in my life, and i was happy that all participants could get something, so that was a win win situation anyway.

When the results of the contest came in i was shocked
I managed to get a shared second place
The price: a 1923 Peace Dollar

So that coin will be the pride of my starting collection for a long time when it arrives

Here is a list of coins i already have:

Lincoln Memorial's:
1974 P
1975 P
1976 P
1982 P Small date Brass
1985 P
1986 P (2 times)
1994 P
1995 P (2 times)
1995 D
2000 P

Lincoln Bicentennial's:
2009 P Presidency

Roosevelt Clad dime:
1967 P
1995 D
2011 P

Jefferson nickel
1972 D
1974 P
1986 P
1994 D

Washington Clad
1987 P
1989 P

State Quarter
2009 P Guam

America the Beautiful
2010 P Yosemite National park

Westward Journey
2010 p Westward Journey


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