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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gopher29, post: 1178420, member: 5379&quot;]My interest in coins started when I was around 8 years old.&nbsp; My older brother at the time had a vague interest in US coins and I can remember watching him sort through rolls of cents and thumb through his copy of R.S. Yeoman&#039;s 1973 blue book.&nbsp; He soon lost interest in them but that book remained in our house while I continued to grow up and I eventually started reading it myself and soon developed a passion for coins unlike anything my older brother had ever displayed.&nbsp; My fascination with coins continued to grow as the years passed and, by 1980, with silver prices soaring and the whole nation talking about everything precious metal related, I was seriously hooked.&nbsp; By the age of 12 I was going to coinshops and buying examples of different types of coins for my small collection.&nbsp; Most of the coins in my collection were common, low grade stuff because I didn&#039;t have very much money but it didn&#039;t take a whole lot to get me excited back then.&nbsp; A trip to the local coinshop with five or ten dollars in my pocket was enough for me to feel like I was in seventh heaven.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>After I became a teenager I lost interest in the hobby and ultimately ended up taking a 25 year hiatus from it.&nbsp; It was only a few years ago that something, not sure what but maybe it&#039;s just a nostalgia-middle aged thing, caused a rekindling of the interest in me and now I&#039;m hooked again.&nbsp; But no more!&nbsp; I&#039;ve got enough coins now.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got darn near everything in that 1973 blue book that I ever dreamed of owning as a child and I don&#039;t need anything else.&nbsp; I know I keep telling myself &quot;that was the last one&quot; every time I buy another but this time I mean it.&nbsp; My collection is complete now and I&#039;m moving on to something else.&nbsp; Btw, I still have that 1973 blue book (my brother hasn&#039;t asked for it back) and, while I now own many other, newer, more relevant coin books, nothing can ever replace the sentimentality of that old, well worn and outdated piece of numismatic literature on my bookshelf.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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