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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;N5GWU, post: 4563708, member: 109652&quot;]I have collected coins off an on since 1955.&nbsp; I was stationed with the Air Force in a lot of different countries so I always picked up a circulating set of the local coins and my favorites were the Philippines with the coins minted in the United States in the early to mid 1900s and the British coins since you could find pennies back to the mid 1800s in junk bowls at the local markets.&nbsp; For a while I was collecting world crowns and that made for an interesting collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that I&#039;m much older and don&#039;t travel and my eyesight isn&#039;t as good as it once was, while I still spend a lot of money on certified US coins, I also collect vintage non sports cards (PSA or SGC if you don&#039;t mind).&nbsp; I am a collector of guns, primarily milsurp, but I don&#039;t get much chance to go out and shoot them.&nbsp; I&#039;m a HAM radio operator (have been since 1984 and was a Morse Intercept operator in the Air Force) and I have had a variety of hot rods, my last being a 23 T bucket, currently up for sale to fund something with opening doors and a roof and may air conditioning).</p><p><br /></p><p>I collected stamps and first day covers for a number of years and while I still have most of them that collection is dormant for now.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I also have a LOT of model trains including Lionel in original boxes, HO and N gauge and some S and Z scale.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have a layout due to lack of space and lack of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one point I collected old books, especially when I was in England since old there means things that are really old and stuff from the 1800&#039;s was considered pretty new.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that coin collectors are a special kind of people that are drawn by a gene in their makeup to things that catch their eyes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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