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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 24618699, member: 1886&quot;]I like the history of coin collecting&nbsp; itself and the people and events&nbsp; that&nbsp; made that history. Events like the Centry of Progress World&#039;s Fair, the 1950-D nickel craze, the silver dollar treasury raids, the ultra rare 1903-O Morgan that became common after bags of them came out in the treasury raids, the roll craze, the world proof set craze, the art bar craze...Even Susan B. was a&nbsp; major episode back then, just not something I would take home to mother. &quot;Certs&quot; and slabs were a major, major historical event for coin collecting. Oh yeah, and so was the adoption of 11 point Psycho Grading. Didn&#039;t take that one home to mother either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there&#039;s famous collectors and/or dealers of long ago such as:&nbsp; Ed Cogan, Joseph Mickely, Ebenezer Mason, Chapman Brothers or Gus Sage. Sage founded what would become the ANS. He was 15 years old and they had their first meetings in the living room of Sage&#039;s house. How&#039;s that for making coin collecting history?</p><p>Sage would have been the Dave Bowers of his day had he not chewed the carpet from pneumonia when he was 33.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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