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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 26512379, member: 13650&quot;]In my early days I mainly just got silver eagles for holidays and worked on a buffalo nickel set in a whitman.&nbsp;&nbsp; There was a coin shop fairly local that&#039;s long since gone where my grandparents would take me to get nickels for the set.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes there would happen to be a coin show at a mall when we were there to shop and I&#039;d get to check it out.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Still have a 1982 Washington commemorative half my dad got me from one of those in the 90s.&nbsp;&nbsp; Had never seen one before but was really special to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Before the internet the kids nowadays will never know how valuable a coin magazine or a Coin World in newspaper form was.&nbsp; It was all the information you could get at home.&nbsp; &nbsp; Used to chat with a nice old lady at an apartment who was like a grandma to me.&nbsp; She&#039;d sit out front of the place on the porch.&nbsp; The neighborhood kids liked visiting with her.&nbsp; &nbsp; Was a guy that lived in another apartment there, I guess that&#039;s how I must have met him.&nbsp;&nbsp; He&#039;d give me old issues of Coin World once in a while since he had a subscription.&nbsp; &nbsp; I often wonder where he is today if he&#039;s still around. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Was only a couple houses away from mine.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was probably 10 or 11 back then.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Soon after I had a 15 year gap where I lost interest and stopped collecting but it came back to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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