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<p>[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 490392, member: 11521"]I did not have anyone around me that cared a whit about coins while I was growing up. I was given the typical coin and stamp collecting things for my birthday (or was it Christmas?) in 1964. (Stamp collecting quickly fell to the wayside.) </p><p> </p><p>The coin collecting items included a Blue Book and several coin folders that I tried to fill from change. I had to motivate myself to collect coins because there was no one else that I knew that collected coins. I remember once my father arranged for a local vest pocket dealer to come to the house and I bought some coins from him. (I remember buying a VERY worn 179? Large Cent and a Bust Half Dollar. I was especially intrigued with the edge lettering on the Bust Half.) I collected coins (to a small degree) and learned what I could - all on my own - until I started college in 1973.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 490392, member: 11521"]I did not have anyone around me that cared a whit about coins while I was growing up. I was given the typical coin and stamp collecting things for my birthday (or was it Christmas?) in 1964. (Stamp collecting quickly fell to the wayside.) The coin collecting items included a Blue Book and several coin folders that I tried to fill from change. I had to motivate myself to collect coins because there was no one else that I knew that collected coins. I remember once my father arranged for a local vest pocket dealer to come to the house and I bought some coins from him. (I remember buying a VERY worn 179? Large Cent and a Bust Half Dollar. I was especially intrigued with the edge lettering on the Bust Half.) I collected coins (to a small degree) and learned what I could - all on my own - until I started college in 1973.[/QUOTE]
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