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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 20159, member: 708&quot;]My interest started in &#039;89/90 when my father was having a clear out and he handed me an old tin full of coins and his stamp albums.</p><p><br /></p><p>So i was sat with both thinking wow! As time progressed i quickly realised that stamps was not for me, but coins, well now coins were.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tons of foreign ones French, Spanish, Dutch, Irish etc. Then there were two US coins that caught my eye a 1953 Franklin and a 1944 Washer (i still like Washers all these years on).</p><p><br /></p><p>Then of course there were the ubiquitous British 1807 penny, the 1887 shilling and threepence. All common as muck, but i loved my Vicky coins and a coin as old as 1807 was unbelievable to me at that tender age of 5.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then came the coinbook the 1985 coin catalogue (i&#039;m guessing my father had only become disillusioned with coins merely 4 or so years earlier)... naturally i took over.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Early Milled sixpences got me there and then. It took me 13 years to actually get one though.</p><p><br /></p><p>I drifted in and out of collecting throughout the 90s and i pick up a loada junk rubbish along the way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gold coins always fascinated me, i mean really fascinated me right from the start... gold was like the Holy Grail to me. I knew my collection would go that way one day, i willed it to be so, so much.</p><p><br /></p><p>So idreamed of gold and thought of little else, a year or two ago i bought quite a bit but i fought it and fought it trying not to give in (knowing that gold is addictive), well i decided to fight it no longer and now i&#039;m moving into gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>I loved hammered coins dearly, so i though what better solution hammered gold? So i&#039;m biting the bullet now and it tastes good. If i can now only afford to get 3 coins or even 2 or just 1 coin a year so be it, the reward is worth the wait.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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