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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 20353, member: 824&quot;]Can&#039;t say...wish I could of asked him.&nbsp; I do remember him saying that these coins were before the Civil War and over a 100 years old!&nbsp; That caught my attention.&nbsp; Shortly afterwards, I remember that I got a RED BOOK as a present and started looking up the values of some of the older coins and my eyes bulged.&nbsp; A penny worth $10 dollars!?!&nbsp; That pretty much started it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I look at coins as a point in history.&nbsp; Just like a World War II Vet may look at a 1941 penny differantly than most people, I look at them with curiosity and questions...who used these, where has it been, what was going on in the world, did it end up in some water fountain or a bank vault?, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Guess that is where some of the passion comes from...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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