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<p>[QUOTE="octavius, post: 4308306, member: 100777"]When I was a kid ,the greatest high tech gadget we had was a transistor radio. We still had other interests which included stamps and coins. We all tended to collect US coins since they were readily available. Our pressing desire was to fill a hole in a folder. We would argue whether or not a penny was F or VF, (if it was mine it was VF, if it was yours it was F). Most conversations concerned Do you have 1909?, I have 1914, Is that an S or a D? </p><p>When I was 13 , I started studying Latin and ancient history. I happened to be in my neighborhood coin store one day and saw some ancients. To my astonishment I knew who some of these people were, what they actually did and could read some titles. This was an amazing feeling and opened up a whole new exciting world of numismatics for me. In the course of several minutes history melded with my coin collecting and from 13 years old , I have never looked back.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="octavius, post: 4308306, member: 100777"]When I was a kid ,the greatest high tech gadget we had was a transistor radio. We still had other interests which included stamps and coins. We all tended to collect US coins since they were readily available. Our pressing desire was to fill a hole in a folder. We would argue whether or not a penny was F or VF, (if it was mine it was VF, if it was yours it was F). Most conversations concerned Do you have 1909?, I have 1914, Is that an S or a D? When I was 13 , I started studying Latin and ancient history. I happened to be in my neighborhood coin store one day and saw some ancients. To my astonishment I knew who some of these people were, what they actually did and could read some titles. This was an amazing feeling and opened up a whole new exciting world of numismatics for me. In the course of several minutes history melded with my coin collecting and from 13 years old , I have never looked back.[/QUOTE]
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