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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 2571132, member: 80121&quot;]I was 13 and had a paper route. Every Friday I would collect from my customers and then stop at the local mom and pop store for an ice cream cone. One day &quot;Mom&quot; asked me if she could look over the change I had collected from my customers. She said she was a coin collector and wanted to check out my coins. I said sure and we looked together. She showed me a nickel that wasn&#039;t a Jefferson, it was a V nickel. She said she had that one, but I should start looking through the change I collected and pull out anything unusual. She said she would do the same with their cash register and we could then trade coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next week she had a Whitman album ready for me to put that V nickel in and that started me on collecting coins over 50 years ago. I still have that Whitman album, to this day, but it&#039;s still not very full. Those were the days when you could pull coins from change to fiil slots.</p><p><br /></p><p>Neither of my children are interested in collecting, but my grandson son is, he goes to the coin club meeting with me and just went, and made out like a bandit, at a coin show this month. Dealers like to see young teens at shows and the vast majority will take time to talk to him and it&#039;s rare that he doesn&#039;t walk away with a free coin and I walk away with a bargain on a coin I need myself. I&#039;m blessed to have someone to share my hobby with, and he will inherit it when it&#039;s time for me to hang it up. He did the picture of me that I use on this forum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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