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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;biged239, post: 1336996, member: 29948&quot;]There are many things that inspire young people. Sometimes it is an adult figure, other times they find it on their own. Collecting is in the genes I believe. </p><p>I posted this a while back and thought I would add it to this.</p><p>&nbsp;[h=2]Just a little story for kicks[/h]&nbsp;&nbsp; <blockquote><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The year was 1940.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A little boy 8 years old, blue jeans and tee shirt with some scuff&nbsp; marks is walking down a sidewalk and sees a penny, tails up laying in&nbsp; the grass. He picks up the coin and looks at the date. 1913. He says to&nbsp; himself that tails up is lucky, but the number 13 is unlucky. He&nbsp; declares that the tails up over rides the 13 and puts the coin in his&nbsp; pocket. Later after supper the boy takes the coin from his pocket and&nbsp; places on the kitchen table. His mother ask what is he doing with the&nbsp; penny. The little boy says it is lonesome and needs some friends. So his&nbsp; mother takes a jar of pennies down from top the shelf and places in&nbsp; front of the little boy. Well there are a few friends he can share. But&nbsp; there is one condition. You better not loose them and you can’t spend&nbsp; them. The little boy is all excited and takes the coins into his room.&nbsp; He pours them out on his small table and starts counting them. There are&nbsp; 187 pennies. He looks at the dates and decides to place them in date&nbsp; order. After a couple dates have been placed he came up on a problem. He&nbsp; did not have a date for each coin in order. So he skipped this date and&nbsp; continued with the dates he had skipping each date he did not have.&nbsp; When he finished he had several of the same dates. So he decided he&nbsp; would only keep the best looking coin from each date. The little boy&nbsp; noticed that some of the pennies had letters under the date. So he&nbsp; decided he would separate one with having no letter and the other with&nbsp; the letter D would be together. Now he had the best coins with two types&nbsp; of years. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The little boy went to school the next morning. His first order of&nbsp; the day is the teacher collects the lunch money so they know how many&nbsp; kids will be eating lunch in the lunch room. So he has to pay his&nbsp; teacher $.5 cents for his lunch. He thinks this over and decides going&nbsp; without lunch one day will not hurt anything. So he goes all day without&nbsp; anything to eat. He rides his bicycle to the drug store and goes in.&nbsp; The clerk behind the counter ask what he can do for such a young fellow?&nbsp; Can I give you this nickel for 5 pennies the little boy ask? The clerk&nbsp; says sure. What you going to do with 5 pennies the clerk ask? Well sir. I&nbsp; am going to take them home and sort them by date and how good they&nbsp; look. The clerk not knowing of such things just smirked, and said OK&nbsp; young fellow. After the boy left the drug store he went to the five and&nbsp; dime discount store where a long time ago he saw a coin book. He thought&nbsp; it was still there, it had been there for ever. He was in luck, it was a&nbsp; coin album for pennies. 1909 thru 1936.&nbsp; The little boy ask the clerk&nbsp; how much the book was? The clerk said it is twenty five cents. The&nbsp; little boy got an allowance of five cents a week if he was good. So he&nbsp; figured that he could skip the lunches for the rest of the week and with&nbsp; his other pennies he could buy the coin album.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; From this day forward he was a coin collector. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Thanks by Big Ed&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Read more: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t180988/#ixzz1iDsh4Gmp" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t180988/#ixzz1iDsh4Gmp">http://www.cointalk.com/t180988/#ixzz1iDsh4Gmp</a></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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