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<p>[QUOTE="SkullReap99, post: 872523, member: 21168"]<b>My Story</b></p><p><br /></p><p>My story on how I got into coin collecting:</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was about 4 years old, I used to randomly find coins on the ground, and change from vending machines. I was just young back then. I stopped doing that, thinking it was a bad idea. Then, when I was 11, I would put some money in a vending machine and press the "change return" button and I would get a different coin, besides the same one I put in. I got all 50 state quarters plus the US territory coins(ex. Puerto Rico, Guam) that way plus a few bicentennial quarters. Later, I discovered that some coins are worth more than they really are and my friend has some really nice old coins that he has shared with me such as mercury dimes, oversized penny and some silver coins. I found my pile of coins that were from my younger days in a tin change box and I started sorting them out, thinking that it could be a good hobby. I wasn't into error coins until I was 12 so I started scouring through coins and all I found were a few die cracks on georgia state quarter and a missing "L" in "Liberty" of a 1971 lincoln penny.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thats my story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SkullReap99, post: 872523, member: 21168"][b]My Story[/b] My story on how I got into coin collecting: When I was about 4 years old, I used to randomly find coins on the ground, and change from vending machines. I was just young back then. I stopped doing that, thinking it was a bad idea. Then, when I was 11, I would put some money in a vending machine and press the "change return" button and I would get a different coin, besides the same one I put in. I got all 50 state quarters plus the US territory coins(ex. Puerto Rico, Guam) that way plus a few bicentennial quarters. Later, I discovered that some coins are worth more than they really are and my friend has some really nice old coins that he has shared with me such as mercury dimes, oversized penny and some silver coins. I found my pile of coins that were from my younger days in a tin change box and I started sorting them out, thinking that it could be a good hobby. I wasn't into error coins until I was 12 so I started scouring through coins and all I found were a few die cracks on georgia state quarter and a missing "L" in "Liberty" of a 1971 lincoln penny. Thats my story.[/QUOTE]
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