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<p>[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 2520015, member: 44183"]<span style="color: #0000ff">Well, my sweet ol' Granny got me collecting Canadian coins when I was a "baby" ... yah, I'm fairly sure that she started my OCD by telling me to put her change into the correct denominations!! (RIP => Granny, you rocked!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... I then continued to collect each Canadian Proof and Specimen set for the next 40 years ... oh, and I also had sweet albums where I would plug-in each year's circulating coins (yah, it was slow and methodical and fricken awesome!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=> ooooowwww, it's a new year => soon the new coins will be arriving in our change!! (yup, those were good and fricken simple times, my friends)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... about 7 years ago, I got back into collecting Canadian notes and coins and then outta nowhere I stumbled-across a thread at CCF (*edit*) ... and the rest was history!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=> yup, I immediately bought three coins that were accused of being fakes!! </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... and I never looked back!!</span></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 2520015, member: 44183"][COLOR=#0000ff]Well, my sweet ol' Granny got me collecting Canadian coins when I was a "baby" ... yah, I'm fairly sure that she started my OCD by telling me to put her change into the correct denominations!! (RIP => Granny, you rocked!!) ... I then continued to collect each Canadian Proof and Specimen set for the next 40 years ... oh, and I also had sweet albums where I would plug-in each year's circulating coins (yah, it was slow and methodical and fricken awesome!!) => ooooowwww, it's a new year => soon the new coins will be arriving in our change!! (yup, those were good and fricken simple times, my friends) ... about 7 years ago, I got back into collecting Canadian notes and coins and then outta nowhere I stumbled-across a thread at CCF (*edit*) ... and the rest was history!! => yup, I immediately bought three coins that were accused of being fakes!! ... and I never looked back!![/COLOR] :woot:[/QUOTE]
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