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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;conpewter, post: 1178335, member: 23236&quot;]Thanks for the contest!</p><p>My story is similar to Bobbeth&#039;s</p><p><br /></p><p>My dad got me started in collecting when I was a kid, not sure about the age.&nbsp; I had my own whitman albums for cents and the newer nickels dimes.&nbsp; Dad had Ike, Mercury, Lincoln cent albums.&nbsp; We had a movie rental store, so on days where Mom was working there I&#039;d go along and sit in back, I got to search through all the change after closing.&nbsp; Dad would take me to the coin sop a few times and I&#039;d get some small things with money I&#039;d saved.&nbsp; He passed away in 2002 when I was 21 years old.&nbsp; All the coin collection got stored away while I was in college and working in Michigan.&nbsp; Eventually I moved down here to the chicago area and got a house, so I was able to pick up all my stuff and had the box of coins stored here for a while.&nbsp; About a year ago I got back in to collecting, but still mostly just circulated stuff.&nbsp; Dad&#039;s Ike album and mercury album I marked under each coin that it was one he&#039;d found.&nbsp; I finished his Ike album this year from coins I&#039;d get at banks, so that was really cool to complete something he&#039;d started.&nbsp; I&#039;ll of course never complete his merc collection, but it will be fun to find some to fill holes (i hope).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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