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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 8419818, member: 19250&quot;]&quot;Collectors are born, not made&quot; has been said many times. &quot;</p><p>By whom? </p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s not true...at all...all behaviors one isn&#039;t born with...yes true we are animals, but animals with a superior mind. Not an animal who instincts are breed into them by nature. </p><p>One becomes a collector for many reasons. One being mentored by another or others. Influenced by others whom they respect or admire. </p><p>I had two uncles who collected,and a father who worked in a bank. Thats how I began collecting coins.</p><p>I also had a paper route that afforded me a means to obtain coins out of a money bag used to make change for the customers who recieved the paper.</p><p>However on a spring day in 1954 I didn&#039;t emerge, and ask the doctor smacking my behinde...By chance do you have a copy of the red book on coins? You see Doc for 9 months now....as I was conceived summer of 53.... I&#039;ve been wondering the current price of an 1877 IHC&nbsp; in xf condition.... this Spring of 1954.</p><p>Yes true as most have said&nbsp; you can plant a seed ,and hope it grows...but you cannot force anything as such on any one... as if you do you&#039;re setting yourself up for failure.&nbsp; As well creating a mis-trust for trying to do so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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