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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 2847628, member: 24274&quot;]I rarely stray much from the paper money forum, but somehow this thread caught my eye and I have to say I&#039;m really enjoying reading about all these diverse interests. So I did my own collection inventory ... and it was a little scary.</p><p><br /></p><p>My gateway drug was free prizes that came inside cereal boxes and stuff you could get with boxtops. I moved on to non-sports cards, wooden nickels and Hot Wheels cars, then coins -- like wheat pennies and any silver I could find in change. My Dad gave me his childhood stamp albums, leading into all kinds of sub-collections, from commemorative panels to old covers. Around high school I progressively discovered paper money, souvenir cards, obsolete stock certificates and bonds, old newspapers (1795 to 1870s), obsolete banknotes, 19th century engraved checks, taxpaid revenues. Then came proofs of portraits and banknote vignettes that matched my stocks and bonds, etc. The more I learned, the more ancillary material I started to notice, like steel engraved tickets and books containing BEP engravings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are the intangible interests, like travel, domestic and international. That led to historic postcards of places I&#039;d visited, as well as elongated coins from the penny presses on my journeys. And I like small agate slabs, geodes, and petrified wood, some of which I find myself. I used to scuba dive, but haven&#039;t done much of that since moving inland</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually have a degree in speech and drama, and have been performing since high school. In large cities I&#039;ve worked professionally onstage and on the radio. In small towns, like my current home base, I do community theatre and sing in the local mens chorus. And my latest interest is cheese-making, but I haven&#039;t strayed beyond fresh mozzarella yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Um … that&#039;s about it. Do you think there&#039;s a cure?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]675151[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]675152[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]675153[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]675154[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]675155[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]675156[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]675157[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]675158[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]675159[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]675160[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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