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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Merc Crazy, post: 1177905, member: 27417&quot;]My story also starts with my parents...</p><p><br /></p><p>Long before my dad and mom reached their relatively lofty positions within their respective companies, they were quite blue-collar individuals.&nbsp; My mom, before I was born, managed a Roy Rogers.&nbsp; Anytime someone paid with silver coinage (This was circa 1982-1986) she would buy it out of the till and put it aside.&nbsp; My dad would keep his wheat cents, but didn&#039;t look for much else.&nbsp; Once I turned 5 or so, my mothers grandfather passed away and left a house full of random stuff, including a nice coin collection.&nbsp; Most of the collection was sold and distributed to family members, but I got to keep quite a few things, with the hope that I&#039;d take on the mantle of being a collector someday.&nbsp; My inheritance from that estate was a couple rolls of silver quarters, about 20 IHC&#039;s, 10 large cents dating from 1830something to the 1850&#039;s, and some other interesting odds and ends.&nbsp; As a kid, I had no clue what to do with all this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Enter the Red Book.&nbsp; Mom brought one home for me, and I stayed up way past my bedtime in my room reading it.&nbsp; I was fascinated by the PanPac slugs and how awesome they looked, by the Lafeyette Dollar, and the 1909-S VDB.&nbsp; That&#039;s all it took to get me hooked.&nbsp; My inheritance went into 2x2&#039;s and a binder that was lost somewhere along the road (I really want to find that.) and probably won&#039;t be found until my parents die or move.</p><p><br /></p><p>During my pre-teen and teenage years, I spent my spare money on... other things.&nbsp; Everything from baseball cards to gas for my car.&nbsp; Fast forward to about 2 years ago (22 years old), I have a job managing a retail store... My interest in coins is piqued when I break open a roll of dimes and out spill a couple Mercury dimes and silver Roosie&#039;s.&nbsp; I thought about it for a second... silver coins, for face value, from the rolls... Hmm.&nbsp; Went back to the bank, bought the remainder of the box, pulled 8 more silver dimes.&nbsp; Today, I roll search over $1k in dimes every week, $100+ in cents, $200+ in nickels, and average, about $1.5k in halves.&nbsp; I also have a small set of Morgans I&#039;m slowly building on, but that may be set aside so that I can focus on building a wheat cent set due to high silver prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s been an interesting trip, and it&#039;s one I look forward to pursuing through the rest of my life.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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