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<p>[QUOTE="huntsman53, post: 381268, member: 1242"]I got bit by the bug while home on leave around Christmas in 1973! I was going through the Wheat and Indian Cents, Buffalo Nickels, Mercury and Silver Roosevelt Dimes and Silver Washington Quarters that I had received in change in Germany while in the Military and found a 1955-P "DDO #1" Cent! I tried to collect coins for the next 29 years or so but life and raising a family got in the way. I did search my change from time to time over the years and even found two 1972-P "Doubled Die" Cents which were probably Die #2's just before leaving Germany in 1977. I sold both of them to a Coin Dealer in Florida in 1979 for $110. Well, I slowly started to get back into collecting and searching coins in 2002 or 2003 and although I suffered quite a few set backs, I have gradually built up my collection and inventory ever since.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Frank[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="huntsman53, post: 381268, member: 1242"]I got bit by the bug while home on leave around Christmas in 1973! I was going through the Wheat and Indian Cents, Buffalo Nickels, Mercury and Silver Roosevelt Dimes and Silver Washington Quarters that I had received in change in Germany while in the Military and found a 1955-P "DDO #1" Cent! I tried to collect coins for the next 29 years or so but life and raising a family got in the way. I did search my change from time to time over the years and even found two 1972-P "Doubled Die" Cents which were probably Die #2's just before leaving Germany in 1977. I sold both of them to a Coin Dealer in Florida in 1979 for $110. Well, I slowly started to get back into collecting and searching coins in 2002 or 2003 and although I suffered quite a few set backs, I have gradually built up my collection and inventory ever since. Frank[/QUOTE]
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