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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 1903977, member: 44210&quot;]I had been intrigued by older US coins like wheats and buffalo nickels as a kid and picked them out of my or my parents&#039; pocket change whenever I found them, but I only seriously decide to start collecting at 15 (in 2007), still with collecting from circulation , but now fueled with a strong drive to collect, with small purchases here and there as time went on. In 2011 (this month will be three years exact), I attended my first coin show. Bought me my US coins and saw that a dealer was selling ancients but mostly medieval (mainly Byzantines and Chinese IIRC). I became fascinated in potentially owning something thousands of years old. All of his stock was out of my price range so I kindly asked the dealer if any one else was selling ancients. I was directed to a friendly dealer from whom I bought my first two ancients:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/gallienus-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/constantineII.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The rest is (no pun intended) history and I now only collect ancient and medieval coinage that interests me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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