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Message:: [QUOTE="Numan, post: 490444, member: 13259"]Both of my parents were influential in my collecting.  :thumb:  They had put aside many wheat cents that they had found in circulation along with Peace, Morgans, and some gold.  As I mentioned in my introductory post, that is where I found my 1909 S VDB that really got me going in this hobby.  They gave these other coins to me after many years of my own collecting (except the 1909 S VDB which I found and stayed with me from the beginning, oh and also my whitman wheat cent folder with coins that I had collected), and they formed the core of my collection.  I have expanded this collection beyond that, but they provided the seed.   I still look back at the coins they provided and appreciate their contribution.  They NEVER "bought" a coin -- slabs were not even in their sphere and coin collecting was what you did from circulation -- everything they had was saved from circulation.  That has fueled two things in my collection, circulated coins that I can find or buy (more reasonably now days) but also slabbed coins in mine -- the major way I can buy coins now that are older that they were able to "collect".  John[/QUOTE]