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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AZSteve, post: 4848832, member: 114396&quot;]I started coin collecting in the later 50&#039;s when I was about ten.&nbsp; Shinier was better, less wear was better.&nbsp; I may have rejected error coins because they weren&#039;t as perfect, or rarer coins &#039;cause I already had a better one.&nbsp; And of course, it was a &quot;hands on&quot; hobby with no gloves, except for 4 proof sets in plastic cases from 1959-1962.&nbsp; Sometimes the coins wouldn&#039;t stay in the holes in the Whitmans so I held them in with tape doubled over on the back.&nbsp; My collection went into storage when I started college.&nbsp; Storage included Minnesota winters and Arizona summers, many in the garage, for 55 years.&nbsp; Same thing for my stamp collection and &quot;First Day of Issue&quot; covers.&nbsp; Yikes!&nbsp; After my wife died earlier this year I decided to start on the coins again for something to do.&nbsp; Probably 90% of my coin collecting knowledge has come from this site in the last month!&nbsp; And I did buy cotton gloves.&nbsp; At least some of the damage on the quarters pictured here (obtained 8 years ago on a whim) was probably caused by me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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