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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Deacon Ray, post: 2726960, member: 81896&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="6"><b><span style="color: #0000ff">H</span><span style="color: #ff0000">a</span><span style="color: #8000ff">p</span><span style="color: #00b300">p</span><span style="color: #ff8000">y</span> <span style="color: #ff00ff">B</span><span style="color: #00b3b3">i</span><span style="color: #4d4dff">r</span><span style="color: #0000ff">t</span><span style="color: #ff8000">h</span><span style="color: #ff0080">d</span><span style="color: #00b300">a</span><span style="color: #0000ff">y</span>, TypeCoin971793!</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Thank you for celebrating your birthday with us! <i>Are you perhaps the youngest regular forum member?</i> At your young age if you continue to collect ancients for another sixty years you are going to have an awesome collection. What a legacy! It’s interesting to hear each others stories about how we came to collect ancient coins. Every story is unique. This is definitely an elite group of collectors that we are privileged to be acquainted with.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">My most interesting story is about the Holy Land Collection that I purchased nine and a half years ago. I was in the stranglehold of alcohol and drug addiction at the time and most certainly on the threshold of death. The reason I bought the collection is because I thought that a Holy Relic that had been touched by Jesus would cure me of my self destructive behavior.&nbsp; I can&#039;t say that any of these coins were touched by Jesus, and I’m making no claims about any power that the coins may have to cure illness, but I&#039;ve got to tell you that within three days of having them delivered to my home I stopped drinking and using. My clean and sober day is May 3, 2008 and tomorrow is my nine year anniversary. My anniversary date is my second birthday. I owe my new life to a Power far greater than myself. Now I live to help other addicts. The coins helped me get to where I am today. Collecting ancients became one of the Joys of life for me.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><i><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">I don’t slab my coins anymore. I enjoy handling them. In the early years I slabbed a lot of coins so that I could give them away as gifts to people who were struggling with life&#039;s problems. I thought the slabs gave them a more authentic look to non collectors.</font></font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]619159[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]619160[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]619161[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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