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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 1305657, member: 33176&quot;]Not an entrant, but reading these stories brings back such memories.&nbsp; I am 66 and don&#039;t remember a time when I was not collecting coins.&nbsp; It has been sporadic, and I collect bits and pieces, but I consider myself a coinhollic.&nbsp; My mom was a teacher and teachers had to take turns to stay late to watch the kids until the last school bus had left.&nbsp; On those days we would eat supper in a restaurant in my home town of 2000 people.&nbsp; I would immediately go back to the coin register, open it and skim through to my heart&#039;s content.&nbsp; Since this was in the early and mid 1950&#039;s, there were plenty of mercury dimes, buffalo nickles, standing lib quarters and walker halves.&nbsp; I remember when I thought my heart was going to stop when I pulled out a 1916 Merc and saw a letter on the back......yep, an S.&nbsp; My collection was stolen by a &quot;friend&quot; and I never got any of it back and he essentially got off.&nbsp; Took me a few years to get back in the groove, but I have an eclectic collection I like now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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