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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kevo, post: 1178354, member: 24781&quot;]When i was about eight or nine, a woman who worked for my parents business would babysit my brother and i on&nbsp; occasion. Her husband was a collector of world coins, and i can remember many times helping him go through bulk purchases, categorizing the coins by country and stapling them into 2x2 flips where he would carefully label them and put them into albums. He had a great big book shelf full of three ring binders that all held coins from around the world. Gradually he started a a red box that held 2x2&#039;s for me. The next time i got to visit my grandparents who lived out of state i remembered to bring all my new coins to show grandpa who was also an avid collector, but of only US issues. I still remember how he scoffed at the idea of HIS grandson collecting WORLD coins. Some of those coins are pretty he remarked but they would never be worth much! You need to get some silver and put it away he explained to me noting that &quot;wheaties, and Morgan dollars were what serious collectors were after. So he takes me back into his study and pulls out a whitman folder for lincoln wheat ear cents, and seats me next to him at his desk where he had an ENORMOUS coffee can full of wheats. We start filling holes in the album and he is all the time explaining to me never to clean my coins, how it would render them worthless ect. I still have my box of foreign coins as well as the first album of wheaties that grandpa helped me start about 28 years ago. Grandpa and i still call each other up just about every time we get a newp for bragging rights as to whose collection is better, and you know what? Grandpa still has me beat![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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