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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1178050, member: 24633&quot;]No one in my family ever collected coins nor did any of my relatives. My introduction to collecting actually began in a poolroom. I started playing pool in 1956 when I was nine years young, and it happened that I had a natural talent for the game. In the summer of 1957, I was in the local poolroom playing 9-Ball and gambling with a 16-year old by the name of Joe Clement. In those days, you never put money on the table. Instead, you kept track of the tally on the &quot;wire&quot; and settled up at the end. When we finished playing, Joe owed me $5, and he gave me four dollar bills and a silver dollar. I had never seen one before. Since the bank where I had a savings account was only a block away, I went there and asked one of the tellers if she had any like the dollar coin I showed her. I could barely see over the top of the counter, so I lifted myself up and rested the full weight of my body on my forearms placed on the counter. The teller spread out a bunch of the coins on the counter, and I picked out four and gave her the remaining $4 I had just won. Subsequently, I went to the library, found a Red Book of US Coins and learned that they were Morgan silver dollars. This became a routine for me whenever I won money gambling at pool, and I rarely lost. I would go to the bank and use some of my winnings to buy Morgan dollars. Within a few years, I had accumulated more than 800 circulated silver dollars, and I sold this collection in the mid-60&#039;s for $4000 because pool was taking up too much of my time. I never lost the attraction for the big old cartwheels, and when I resumed collecting a couple decades later, Morgan silver dollars were the first coins I started buying.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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