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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2508296, member: 51347&quot;]Hmmm... As a child, Ancient was a perspective.&nbsp; My Grandmother inadvertently got me started when I was 9 years old (almost 50 years ago...)&nbsp; We dumped out a coffee can of my Grandparent&#039;s change and I found an 1863 US Civil War Token.&nbsp; 1863 was ANCIENT to a 9 year old!&nbsp; Finding this was beyond bizarre when I think of it now - my Grandparents were NOT collectors, and I could not conceive how it got into the change.&nbsp; They had NO clue what it was until I took it to a coin shop in Mountain Home, AR).&nbsp; I worked up the gumption to ask if I could keep it... and it started me into collecting &quot;old&quot; coins.&nbsp; I focused on Odd Type Coins, but became frustrated with all the slabbing and silly grading systems that &quot;commoditized&quot; the whole Hobby in the US.&nbsp; I have always loved Ancient History as a past-time diversion, and I finally woke up 25 years ago and began slowly collecting Ancients instead of Moderns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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