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<p>[QUOTE="cciesielski01, post: 1302713, member: 33335"]thanks for the contest!</p><p>here is goes.. lol</p><p>i started collecting coins with my mom about 11 years ago, i was 10 at the time. we were doing alot of coin roll hunting(2-3 boxes of cents per week). we found a few indian head cents then from that mpoment on i was hooked! when i was 13 i had just got a paper route and started going to a very small coin dealer and buying v-nickles and lincoln wheat cents. i went to my great grandmas about a year or so later with my gramdma and she brought up the fact that i had taken an interest in collecting coins so she brought out her coin collection! and let me go thru it, i found some neat stuff, alot of wheat cents, older foreign coins(netherlands and canadian mostly) and she had an 1851 3 cent silver nickel and a 1839 half dime. she let me buy them all off of her! i was soo stoked! about a year or so later i got a job at Mcdonalds as a cashier. during the first week i found 3 silver dimes! i started finding silver all the time. a fellow co worker and me found about 300 silver dimes one month! we took the better ones and sold the rest. i couldnt really afford much after i graduated high school, moving out into an apartment and paying bills made sure i didnt have much if any extra spending money. lol i just recently within the past year or so found a good job with a decent income so i can afford to collect again! im focusing on older copper coins and lincoln cents. i am deffinately hooked on collecting coins and i hope to share with future generations what i learn. </p><p>again i have to thank you for creating this contest!</p><p>cody[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cciesielski01, post: 1302713, member: 33335"]thanks for the contest! here is goes.. lol i started collecting coins with my mom about 11 years ago, i was 10 at the time. we were doing alot of coin roll hunting(2-3 boxes of cents per week). we found a few indian head cents then from that mpoment on i was hooked! when i was 13 i had just got a paper route and started going to a very small coin dealer and buying v-nickles and lincoln wheat cents. i went to my great grandmas about a year or so later with my gramdma and she brought up the fact that i had taken an interest in collecting coins so she brought out her coin collection! and let me go thru it, i found some neat stuff, alot of wheat cents, older foreign coins(netherlands and canadian mostly) and she had an 1851 3 cent silver nickel and a 1839 half dime. she let me buy them all off of her! i was soo stoked! about a year or so later i got a job at Mcdonalds as a cashier. during the first week i found 3 silver dimes! i started finding silver all the time. a fellow co worker and me found about 300 silver dimes one month! we took the better ones and sold the rest. i couldnt really afford much after i graduated high school, moving out into an apartment and paying bills made sure i didnt have much if any extra spending money. lol i just recently within the past year or so found a good job with a decent income so i can afford to collect again! im focusing on older copper coins and lincoln cents. i am deffinately hooked on collecting coins and i hope to share with future generations what i learn. again i have to thank you for creating this contest! cody[/QUOTE]
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