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Message:: [QUOTE="playin4funami, post: 996281, member: 21976"]as a newbie collector of about 10 years of age they indroduced this arcade game called donkey kong and I was addicted bad, they put one in just a block from my house, when the machine had all my quarters I resorted to a quarter collection given me by the old guy across the street whom I mowed grass for,all silver and I still kick myself over it, thankfully I still have all the 2 dollar silver certificates and old 2 dollar bills he would pay me with. He was in his 80's with no living relatives and was a great guy and coin collector, wish he wouldn't of passed so soon as I could have learned alot from him about coins. he gave my friend who helped scoop snow off his driveway in winter a fully complete wheat cent book that he had put together one cent at a time as they came out. He left all the rest to charity's in his will, but handed out loads of great coins to local kids like me who were too dumb at that age to appeciate them. I remember one year he rode in the town parade with the vfw and threw handfulls of silver dollars into the crowd for the kids instead of candy like everyone else.    Once I got older and really got into coin collecting I bought way to many low grade coins instead of waiting for a good one to come along, impatient to fill albums with no thought to quality, now if a coin doesn't measure up to the grade I am looking for I move on without a backward glance.[/QUOTE]