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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 61913, member: 2761&quot;]I will be frank...I probably would have not gotten interested in numismatics if not for the additional value attached to the coin&#039;s face value.&nbsp; What got me interested in collecting coins was finding that coin &quot;x&quot; was worth &quot;x plus dollar(s)&quot;.&nbsp; I remember looking at the Red Book in 1970 (when I was 10 years old) and I couldn&#039;t believe that the 1909-S VDB in BU condition was worth over $500!!&nbsp; It could have been $5 million to a 10 year old.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since then, I could to appreciate the beauty and history of coins.&nbsp; Sometimes I look at a coin from a specific year amd think, &quot;If this coin could talk, tell me where it has been, how many items it help purchase or was it part of a poker pot from the Old West.</p><p><br /></p><p>So...as much as I appreciate the beauty in coins as some people like collecting items from &quot;Precious Moments&quot; to lead crystal, I like coins because as the old saying goes:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;If you collect money, you will never go broke.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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