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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7326773, member: 118780&quot;]I grew up near Rochester NY, and I recall seeing your ads - though I don&#039;t believe I ever visited your store. I only moved to collecting ancients recently, and back then as a kid I was a passionate stamp collector. As you recall, those days it was safe to go into downtown Rochester, and every year my mother gave me a budget of $25 for my birthday, and I would spend three months budgeting it for a visit to a stamp store that was in one of the department stores at Midtown Mall. I favored the small countries, because my family was of Luxembourgish heritage (I now have citizenship) so I felt obliged to &quot;stick with the fellow little guys.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Several months after buying my stamps, I would show them off to my grandfather, then marvel over his Luxembourg stamp collection. He also owned two gold double eagles he collected as a kid, though back then I didn&#039;t find them as interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, I wonder had I visited your store back then and realized that my $25 could have purchased an ancient denarius, would I have switched to coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably not, but in a bit of luck the Transformers and Star Wars toys I played with back then recently financed my first ancient coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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