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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;miedbe7, post: 1643554, member: 33919&quot;]Jerry Buss passed away at age 80 today (1933-2013).&nbsp;&nbsp; He had been the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers since 1979.&nbsp; Under his watch, the team won 10 championships and produced some pretty ridiculous teams: Magic, Kareem and Worthy, then Kobe and Shaq, and now just Kobe.&nbsp; He was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now I&#039;m not a Lakers fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I do respect what his teams accomplished.&nbsp; Anyways, the reason I&#039;m posting this is that he was a pretty well-known coin collector.&nbsp;&nbsp; I always thought he was just some rich dude throwing his cash around at big name coins (the 1913 5c and 1804 $1).&nbsp;&nbsp; I found a cool article on him that proved my assumptions about him incorrect.&nbsp; It is republished from an interview with Buss by Numismatic News.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t think I can paste the whole thing here, so I&#039;ll just <a href="http://www.littletoncoin.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Display|10001|10001|-1||LearnNav|Coin-Collectors.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.littletoncoin.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Display|10001|10001|-1||LearnNav|Coin-Collectors.html" rel="nofollow">link</a> it.&nbsp; It&#039;s half way down the page.&nbsp; RIP Buss.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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