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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ukgoldbug, post: 996423, member: 18631&quot;]Only started collecting about 4-5 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Was given a sovereign in my youth, I was 8 or 9. About the time I turned 40 and was getting into collecting, I sold it to a dealer. (Mistake number 1?) Turned out the sovereign was a forgery, or so the dealer said! (Mistake number 2?) Dealer said it was probably 9ct gold or something and said he&#039;d give me $30 (the sterling equivalent at the time) for it, which I took! (Mistake no.3?) Ooops!</p><p><br /></p><p>And things have pretty much gone downhill from there! (Save for the occasional Gem turning up!) Coin collecting? You must be off your rocker! </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway if it was easy, it wouldn&#039;t be interesting and I&#039;d have to play golf instead, sometimes. Which I do, actually, and that drives me nuts as well, come to think of it. (Got a wife and kids too, by the way.) But luckily I&#039;ve got a really hard wall - that I can bang my head against. So that&#039;s nice - I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still make mistakes though, some are probably really dumb. I think I may use brackets too often? (But stopped making other mistakes.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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