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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Black Friar, post: 8168885, member: 76221&quot;]OK, to start, I will use my favorite numismatic saying. This is my hobby, I do it for fun.&quot; I agree 100% with DonnaML&#039;s post.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been collecting coins of one genre or another since I was a kid. I am now a</p><p>old fart. I started collecting US and Canadian coins in the mid 50&#039;s. In the way back machine Canadian coins and US circulated side by side at par. One could even find &quot;fish scales&quot; aka five cent silver coins. Before going off to university at seventeen I was up to US silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>And so it went until I was in my mid thirties when I discovered ancients as well as the beauty and history of other cultures both ancient and current. My collecting is now a very satisfying <i>melange...</i>mix with ninety percent Byzantine and Arab/Byzantine. The other ten percent is wide open. So many coins, so little time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have thoroughly enjoyed and support Coin Talk. I love the spirit of this site and learn from, as well as pass on info in the field of numismatics. That reminds me, I need to send in some support money to help keep this fantastic community viable. The check is in the mail. No, really. I have my check book open right now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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