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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2281839, member: 15588&quot;]When just a mere tyke (somewhere in the single digits) a man named C.W. Johnson ran a small coin shop behind his much larger sewing machine store. He was always immensely friendly and helpful. My parents must have shopped there because I recall making repeated visits to buy extremely worn liberty nickels. I remember being amazed that I was holding something from the 1800s, though I didn&#039;t yet have a fully developed concept of time. I still have that block of sliders. When I learned that a &quot;grand&quot; relative of mine was born in 1913, I began looking for a 1913 Liberty Nickel and ran smack into one of the hobby&#039;s greatest rarities. Surprise! My coin folder had a little plug over the 1913 slot that simply said &quot;rare.&quot; I soon found out how rare. Instead of simply buying a readily available 1913 Buffalo Nickel, I gave up. I have no idea why. Around the same time my family traveled to Winnipeg and they bought me my first Canadian mint set, which I still have. Thus began a lifelong obsession with beaver nickels.</p><p><br /></p><p>I took a long break from numismatics until, some time later when I actually had money of my own, I discovered a different small coin shop. The owner really showed me the ropes, offered me advice, asked me why I was buying a particular coin over another and challenged me to consider alternatives. It was life-changing. I bought my first gold coin from him (a very cheap but awesome Mexico 2 peso) and I can still hear him saying, with some pride in his voice, &quot;Oh oh! You&#039;re getting into gold!&quot; Sadly, he died rather young and the shop and his stock were liquidated by his family. That was an absolutely awesome coin shop. I will never forget him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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