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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2386716, member: 1892"]Anyone with a decent sense of taste gravitates to bourbon naturally.</p><p><br /></p><p>Me, I dug an 1861 IHC out of the ground in my front yard while playing Matchboxes in the late 1960's. It was so_cool that I can still picture that long-gone coin in my mind. Our local soil had bleached it nearly white. After a long break to (sort of) become an adult, my entrepreneurial streak brought me back around to them when I discovered that pawn shops near my Army post paid so little for stuff - and sold the stuff for so little in return - that I could buy there and resell to some city pawn shops at a profit. That gave me a feel for what was/wasn't really worth it, in general, about coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward a few years, to the early 2000's when my perverse sense of gift-giving led me to buy my (then) wife a couple of DMPL Morgans and a couple of gold $2.5's for Christmas. The moment I opened that first slabbed DMPL, it was all over for me, and I haven't been in any sort of control since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2386716, member: 1892"]Anyone with a decent sense of taste gravitates to bourbon naturally. Me, I dug an 1861 IHC out of the ground in my front yard while playing Matchboxes in the late 1960's. It was so_cool that I can still picture that long-gone coin in my mind. Our local soil had bleached it nearly white. After a long break to (sort of) become an adult, my entrepreneurial streak brought me back around to them when I discovered that pawn shops near my Army post paid so little for stuff - and sold the stuff for so little in return - that I could buy there and resell to some city pawn shops at a profit. That gave me a feel for what was/wasn't really worth it, in general, about coins. Fast forward a few years, to the early 2000's when my perverse sense of gift-giving led me to buy my (then) wife a couple of DMPL Morgans and a couple of gold $2.5's for Christmas. The moment I opened that first slabbed DMPL, it was all over for me, and I haven't been in any sort of control since.[/QUOTE]
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