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<p>[QUOTE="SPP Ottawa, post: 1696319, member: 39508"]I collected coins as a young kid, but when I turned 16 and the world of motorcycles and girls were open to me... well, I stopped collecting coins and starting collecting things like motorcycle parts, speeding tickets and, ahem, other conquests... (all boiled down to a matter of priorities...)</p><p><br /></p><p>I was in my early 30s, when I finished graduate school, got married, and started earning a real income, that I rekindled my coin collecting interests. I then united that passion with my other passion - science and research, and am trying to bring a little science to my hobby, publishing several papers in the Canadian Numismatic Journal. I think numismatics is alive and well, it has just evolved from the 'hobby of kings' to a fascinating world of varieties, errors and registry sets... from my perspective, the hobby could not be at a better place, then the present time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SPP Ottawa, post: 1696319, member: 39508"]I collected coins as a young kid, but when I turned 16 and the world of motorcycles and girls were open to me... well, I stopped collecting coins and starting collecting things like motorcycle parts, speeding tickets and, ahem, other conquests... (all boiled down to a matter of priorities...) I was in my early 30s, when I finished graduate school, got married, and started earning a real income, that I rekindled my coin collecting interests. I then united that passion with my other passion - science and research, and am trying to bring a little science to my hobby, publishing several papers in the Canadian Numismatic Journal. I think numismatics is alive and well, it has just evolved from the 'hobby of kings' to a fascinating world of varieties, errors and registry sets... from my perspective, the hobby could not be at a better place, then the present time.[/QUOTE]
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