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<p>[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 3702619, member: 24633"]Unfortunately, no! When I was a kid, I gambled a lot playing pool because I was good at it. When I was 10, I was playing 9-Ball with an older teenager, and I won $5. In those days, you didn't throw money on the table because gambling wasn't allowed. When he finally quit, he paid me with four dollar bills and the silver dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had never seen one before, so I went to the bank where I had a savings account and asked the teller if she had any like it. She spread a bunch of them across the counter, and I took four more with my pool winnings. I rarely lost at pool, so whenever I won more money, I'd go to the bank and get more silver dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the time I was 16, I had accumulated more than 800 Morgan dollars, but pool was taking up so much of my time that I decided to sell all of them. I didn't return to numismatics until the mid-70's.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 3702619, member: 24633"]Unfortunately, no! When I was a kid, I gambled a lot playing pool because I was good at it. When I was 10, I was playing 9-Ball with an older teenager, and I won $5. In those days, you didn't throw money on the table because gambling wasn't allowed. When he finally quit, he paid me with four dollar bills and the silver dollar. I had never seen one before, so I went to the bank where I had a savings account and asked the teller if she had any like it. She spread a bunch of them across the counter, and I took four more with my pool winnings. I rarely lost at pool, so whenever I won more money, I'd go to the bank and get more silver dollars. By the time I was 16, I had accumulated more than 800 Morgan dollars, but pool was taking up so much of my time that I decided to sell all of them. I didn't return to numismatics until the mid-70's. Chris[/QUOTE]
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