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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2316090, member: 76194"]Nice story. I'm not sure mine is anywhere near as interesting as yours. When I was young, I collected stamps. One day someone gifted me a 1958 Cuban 10 centavos coin, and that got me interested in learning more about coins. I started to browse the infant internet (this was circa 1997) and discovered there were people who collected coins, and what's more, there were these things called "coin shops." I searched the yellow pages (for the younger collectors, the Yellow Pages were like Google Search but in book form) and discovered there was a shop a few miles from my house. I pestered my parents until they agreed to take me and the rest was history. The minute I walked into that shop and started looking at the 19th and early 20th century American coins on display, I knew my stamp collecting days were over and I should be collecting coins. Nearly 19 years later, I'm still collecting, except now I'm acquiring ancient coins instead of American coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2316090, member: 76194"]Nice story. I'm not sure mine is anywhere near as interesting as yours. When I was young, I collected stamps. One day someone gifted me a 1958 Cuban 10 centavos coin, and that got me interested in learning more about coins. I started to browse the infant internet (this was circa 1997) and discovered there were people who collected coins, and what's more, there were these things called "coin shops." I searched the yellow pages (for the younger collectors, the Yellow Pages were like Google Search but in book form) and discovered there was a shop a few miles from my house. I pestered my parents until they agreed to take me and the rest was history. The minute I walked into that shop and started looking at the 19th and early 20th century American coins on display, I knew my stamp collecting days were over and I should be collecting coins. Nearly 19 years later, I'm still collecting, except now I'm acquiring ancient coins instead of American coins.[/QUOTE]
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