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<p>[QUOTE="longnine009, post: 2012951, member: 1886"]<img src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStTNGxb74QymHfv79SchGsl60qg0bl0LMX3kaA_LlGW87Ej0bl" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It started at Bob's News in 1974. I was just browsing and saw one of the coin publications with a photo of a Silver Art Bar. I started buying them for $5.50ppd each while people kept telling me that it was impossible because the dang government made gold and silver ownership illegal. I started reading some of the coin stuff in NN CW etc, publications I was buying for Art Bar ads.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it really started with Art Bars. But the coin bug was biting. By 1980 I read Bowers' High Profits From Rare Coins, the Garrett Book, Kamin's How To Make Money In Coins etc. And I made my first big deal coin purchase from Joe Flynn--a 1931S Buff nickel in MS65. I was on the road to riches and the rest as they say: Never Happened. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="longnine009, post: 2012951, member: 1886"][IMG]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStTNGxb74QymHfv79SchGsl60qg0bl0LMX3kaA_LlGW87Ej0bl[/IMG] It started at Bob's News in 1974. I was just browsing and saw one of the coin publications with a photo of a Silver Art Bar. I started buying them for $5.50ppd each while people kept telling me that it was impossible because the dang government made gold and silver ownership illegal. I started reading some of the coin stuff in NN CW etc, publications I was buying for Art Bar ads. So it really started with Art Bars. But the coin bug was biting. By 1980 I read Bowers' High Profits From Rare Coins, the Garrett Book, Kamin's How To Make Money In Coins etc. And I made my first big deal coin purchase from Joe Flynn--a 1931S Buff nickel in MS65. I was on the road to riches and the rest as they say: Never Happened. :([/QUOTE]
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