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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jhinton, post: 1243558, member: 24410&quot;]<font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Just a few minutes ago I responded to a post regarding a suggestion for a first coin purchase. </span></font></font><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t190152/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t190152/"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">http://www.cointalk.com/t190152/</font></font></a><span style="color: #000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"> When I was typing my response I realized that that was the moment that I was “hooked”! That was the day that I became a coin collector! (I curse that day…. </font><font face="Wingdings"><font face="Wingdings">J</font></font></font><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">) I hoarded “pennies” ( I didn’t know they were cents at the time) when I was a kid and filled a Whitman blue book with all the dates from 1959 to I don’t remember. I also had a couple of buffalo nickels. I thought it was fun but once the book was full, that was kind of the end for me. Fast forward 10 years, I was 22, stationed at Fort Bragg North Carolina and a SPC in the 82 Airborne Division! There was an awesome Chinese restaurant located on Yadkin road right outside the gate. Well I got off early one day and stopped there to eat lunch/dinner. When I was walking inside I noticed a Coin/Card &amp; Comic store in the same shopping center. I decided to stop in there when I left as I had never seen a coin shop before. Well.. needless to say when I went in I was a bit overwhelmed! I talked to the dealer, he was retired air force and a little strange (I have since learned that all coin dealers and most collectors are a little… eccentric). Well I explained to him I was just looking and I liked the items more for their history than to really collect them. Immediately upon me saying that he showed me a genuine “piece of eight” (his term not mine). It even had chop marks! Which he told me was “very rare”. Well I purchased that coin for the small price of $200! I now know that he saw me coming from a mile away and will never have my business again. It was only worth about $45.00 but I didn’t find that out until years later. I ended up buying some silver eagles, a few silver bars and a few other coins from that dealer. I still remember taking that coin to everyone in my unit who would listen and telling them all about it. I would get the same deer in a headlights look that we all get but I was so excited I didn’t care. That day, that’s the day that I became a coin collector. Can any of you remember when you got the coin bug? If so, I would love to hear about it!</font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"></font><font size="3">I would also like to add a funny note about my Whitman coin album. When I was a kid, I didn’t have a coin book and had basically no knowledge about any of the cents I was putting into the book. When I got to the part for the 1982 cents and saw how many different one’s there were, I had no idea why. Everyone I asked told me they didn’t know either so I just filled it up with any 1982 cents I could find matching the mint mark. I figured if I couldn’t tell then no-one else could either<font face="Wingdings"><font face="Wingdings">J</font></font>. I remember the day I was reading my first coin book and learned why we had so many different cents in 1982. I just smiled to myself and vowed that I would put the correct one’s in the holes one day. It was almost 3 years later before that came true.</font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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