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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 1904222, member: 29458&quot;]How did you get started ?</p><p>About early May 1956 when my parents....................<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In 1961 when I was aged 4&nbsp; a friend of the family, a merchant captain who had sailed the 7 seas for decades, dropped off a sack of coins from all 4 corners of the globe at my home as a gift for me to play with.</p><p>&nbsp;That is when I became fascinated with geography and history and began to accumulate&nbsp; coins from every source possible at such a young age.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The following year in 1962 I was on holiday in Spain, (parents included), the hotel had guests from Germany, France,&nbsp; Italy, Holland and the USA,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the courtyard of the hotel was a very shallow wishing well in which lower denomination coins consisting of Cents, Pfennigs, Lire,Pesetas, Centimos and Pennies, etc etc, were tossed into the water on a daily basis.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In an effort to protect the Goldfish in the well from metal poisoning I scooped out all the coins every day for 3 weeks.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The fish survived, I became an avid collector and accumulated a collection that is the envy of the world to this day.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No plastic, no slabs, no Cac, no TPG <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>