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Message:: [QUOTE="cwtokenman, post: 4308768, member: 2100"]1. Probably around 10 years old. 2. About 55 years. While buying a house and raising kids, my interests shifted a bit over to the exonumia realm, which has held my primary interest to this day.3. My older brother collected coins, and I wanted to have a better collection than his. Funded by paper route money, I spent so much time at the local coin shop that he said I may as well get paid for being there, hence my first "real" job. I worked there from the age of 14 to 20.4. My favorite is a Civil War token issued by an ancestor.5. During the present time, acquiring quantities of coins is difficult. It helps to know someone in the business, but newspapers still deal with a large volume of coins. When my wife helps count coins, she usually finds between .25 and 1.00 in silver after looking thru about $3,000 of coins. She also gets the tokens and foreign coins for free as the banks won't take them. Having a DQ worker save coins for you can be good. Kids sometimes get into dad's desk for ice cream money. My daughter used to bring home $2-3 face of silver every week when she worked there. A bank teller can be another good source.[/QUOTE]