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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 55388, member: 708&quot;]I bit the coin bug at 5 also.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although i think i&#039;m a bit of an anomaly in the scheme of things, i introduced myself to coin collecting. Basically because as an inquisitive child i wanted to know why some of the ten pences we had, had a picture of a king on and were dated back to the 1940s! They were old and they were different!</p><p><br /></p><p>I got interested, and then shortly afterwards the Royal Mint being as annoying as they are decided what a good idea it would be to shrink the 5 pence to something so small it was ridiculous. I hated the change at the time, i still hate them now (me and the rest of the population so it seems). But this event perhaps i should be thankful for, it occured when i was still green as grass in coins... it triggered the collector bug that was only laying semi-dormant. That&#039;s when i started saving the old big 5ps that were going to be demonetised whilst i could. That was it and i was hooked.</p><p><br /></p><p>My father then gave me a tinful of his old coins... so i got myself interested BEFORE anyone had thought to give me any coins. My father gave me them because he realised i had become interested in coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So this might explain why i take a laid back approach when it comes to recruiting newbies, i just don&#039;t bother, i leave that to other people on the front line to do. I just sit here waiting for newbies that have just bitten the coin bug when they need help and guidance, that&#039;s when i get involved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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