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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bqcoins, post: 599284, member: 5036&quot;]Great contest, I love reading how others got started:</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Summer of 1986, when I was still young, my grandfather sent our family a box of stuff from MA to us in TX.&nbsp; There were some pictures in it for my mom and dad, a ukelele for my sister and a 25 pound box of wheat cents in it for me.&nbsp; Along with those wheaties was an corroded ancient copper and 4 cull large cents.&nbsp; Two had holes in the center and 1835 and 1852.&nbsp; My father remembered prying them out of derelict barns as a child.&nbsp; The other two were culled out draped bust cents.&nbsp; The only thing I could tell was the general outline of the woman and a couple of letters of Liberty on the obv and most of the reverse is visible.&nbsp; Well, I had never seen anything like this before so I hounded and hounded my dad to take me to a shop so I could see more coins like this. He finally relented and took me to a coin store, that sadly is no longer there, and I purchased an 1836 Large cent in VG because it was soooooo unbelievably cool.&nbsp; I still have all those coins and just now took them out for another look see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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