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Message:: [QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 1903797, member: 20480"]I began when my brother & I used to walk to the only store in town to spend our allowance on penny candy on Saturday morning (25c each back in the 1960's . . . which seemed pretty good money for kids at the time). The owner saw how fascinated we were when we saw a buffalo nickel in change.  Ever since then, she would save her Buffalos, Lib nickels and Indian cents for us, and I would buy far less candy than my brother did, obviously hoping for, and surprisedly receiving several numismatic goodies in change with each visit.  My brother caught on quickly, but couldn't help himself, and always blew almost all of his money on the candy. A couple of years later we moved to an apartment in another town, and the Dad in the family next door was an army vet who collected.  He learned of our interest in US coinage, and asked my mom if we could visit his favorite LCS with him.  My bother & I both went, and it was just awesome . . . we went for the action on Friday night when the Bid Board closed, and were completely blown away . . . not just by the coins, but by the camaraderie, the competitiveness, the excitement . . . I was hooked, and my brother finally got involved in foreign coins.   To this day I still don't eat much candy . . .[/QUOTE]