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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stainless, post: 1178169, member: 11757&quot;]Thanks for the contest <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My collecting journey started back in January 2008. I didn&#039;t know a thing about coins, but I thought it would be cool to buy some silver and gold. I decided to find a few forums and narrow it down to whatever one I liked better, and basically learn all I could by the internet, books, and that forum (which turned out to be CoinTalk). I got A LOT of help from many different members.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Over the first few days, I was amazed by all these sorts of coins and really didn&#039;t know where to go, but since silver was my goal, I decided on morgans. Little did I know, there where different values, depending on what year and what mintmark. A lot to learn. Morgans quickly were off my collecting list, because I saw so many other coin that I liked.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Over this learning process, I was also interested in ancient coinage, which I was amazed that I would even be able to own some. The fact that I was already interested made me want to get some. But for the first year, I was all over the place. From ancients, to US, to world, back to US. But while I was collecting US and world coinage, I always collected and looked at ancients whenever I could.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In a nutshell, ancients won me over. I now have been collecting them for nearly four years, and my love for them will never stop. Now that I have seen so many coins and realize what is common and what isn&#039;t, my interest in even ancients have narrowed to the more irreplaceable stuff (errors, for instance).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s funny how you can come in a hobby looking to &quot;invest&quot; and get addicted to not just collecting, but learning about your particular interest in numismatics. Granted, I still have that dealer-wannabe mentality, but I also have set aside that personal collection of coins that &quot;speak&quot; to me.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>stainless[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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