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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BustCoinageDude, post: 1045911, member: 12004&quot;]10Gary22:</p><p>&nbsp; That&#039;s a good way to introduce a new collector to numismatics.&nbsp; I do that as well.&nbsp; I also try to light the coin spark by giving them my past issues of Coin World and Numismatic News.</p><p>&nbsp; I was introduced to the hobby more than 30 years ago by the old school of gentlemen who passed down their old Bowers, Stacks, and Spink catalogs to me.</p><p>&nbsp; These were old school collectors.</p><p>Imagine me in the mid 1980&#039;s, and I&#039;m a high school kid with a limited budget and a willing attitude to learn, and a coin club full of old men with vitalis in the hair slicked back and a room full of Partagas y LaGloria Cubana cigar smoke.&nbsp; Aaah, those were the days, where you didn&#039;t have to go to the bank for wheat, you grocery store had rolls of wheat on the shelves and at the cash register.&nbsp; These guys passed down their World Coin News and Coin World to me, albeit it was cigar stained, they were free.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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