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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Skelton, post: 4558224, member: 92092&quot;]Okay, I guess I&#039;m going to be the only one here who DOESN&#039;T collect ancients!&nbsp; But I will some day, and it&#039;s good to know there are many here to help me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I turned 68 in April, married some 43 years, and have one son who is 30 and single.&nbsp; And it&#039;s because of him that my interest in coins was revived. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was still in grade school when my dad showed me his albums filled with cents and nickels.&nbsp; I helped him look for coins and bought a couple of my own albums to fill.&nbsp; Later I came across a small book made especially for recording the coins I had.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it never really caught on with me then.&nbsp; I was too busy reading everything (even cereal boxes while eating my Cocoa Krispies) and writing stories with my friends as characters.&nbsp; The space race in the late fifties made me want to go (and a teacher of mine had a relative working on the Dyna-Soar -- look it up) but being weak in math made me focus on the computers they had.&nbsp; So when I went to college as an electrical engineer major, my plan was to become a computer repairman on the moon!</p><p><br /></p><p>But once again math tripped me up.&nbsp; Plus during high school I had discovered chess, and became a chess fanatic.&nbsp; Never was much good at it, but going to tournaments got me out and about, plus I made lots of friends.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a rather bad year in college, I went back home, switched majors to computer science, but never got the degree.&nbsp; Worked in computer operations for over 20 years, then retired from being an airport security screener after 13 years.&nbsp; Still doing chess online now and collecting coins again.&nbsp; My son, as I&#039;ve mentioned before, inherited the coin collection from his grandfather, and I manage it for him.&nbsp; He lives in another town and allows me to add and classify his collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that&#039;s me, maybe not what you expected, but I like it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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