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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2019509, member: 19463&quot;]I have to agree that the WL halves had something to do with my being a coin collector, too.&nbsp; Of course in the 1950&#039;s many of them still circulated and it was even possible to pull nice ones from circulation for the price of 50 cents (a lot of money to me then, for sure!).&nbsp; Halves circulated a lot in those days unlike today.&nbsp; I also looked forward to finding Standing Liberty Quarters (a bargain at 25 cents) and smaller coins from the days before they started putting real people faces on all coins.&nbsp; My interest in these coins caused me to visit coin stores for supplies and to sell the occasional duplicate even then worth over face value.&nbsp; There was no way I would pay over face for a US coin but I could trade a duplicate for something I lacked.&nbsp; On one of these trips I saw my first ancient coin and the rest is history.&nbsp; I had no problem paying 50 cents for a bronze or a couple dollars for a denarius especially when that money came from selling Lincoln cents for a dime or a quarter.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Before long, I started getting mail lists from ancient specialty dealers.&nbsp; By then I was in high school and made money working in a tropical fish store so I no longer searched actively for US coins.&nbsp; One of the lists was from dealer Joel Malter and offered a denarius of Septimius Severus that I considered really special for the exorbitant price of $13.50.&nbsp; I bought it even though it was then the most I had spent on a coin.&nbsp; I still have it and it rests at #1 on my list of favorites.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f01.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f01.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f01.html</a></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fim01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>I even wrote up what I knew about the coin for an article published in the February 1966 issue (Vol V, number 2) of <i>The Voice of the Turtle</i> magazine.&nbsp; That one is no longer published as might be appropriate for any magazine that would publish me![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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