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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 25997465, member: 1886&quot;]It all started for me in 1974 at Bob&#039;s News and Books Store. One of the Coin publications I passed, showed&nbsp; photos of silver art bars on the cover. So I bought the magazine or newspaper, I don&#039;t remember who it was. Then I ordered the Old Ironsides bar from one of the advertisers-$5.00 plus 50c shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were two clues in that bar that I did not realize at the time: 1) Joining the Navy 2 years later and&nbsp; 2) Exonumia would be the only thing that would really&nbsp; hold my interest in Numismatics. Especially compared to date collecting a series. I honestly don&#039;t know how people&nbsp; do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>David Schenkman once observed ( I believe on the Coin World podcast) That collectors who started&nbsp; out in&nbsp; coins and went to Exonumia tended to stay primarily in Exonumia. But collectors who started out in Exonumia [such as art bars] and went to coins tended to come back to&nbsp; Exo. It&nbsp; took me long time and a lot of disenchantment to go back to the beginning but I&#039;ve been in Exo for about 20 years now.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW,&nbsp; Bob&#039;s News and Book Store is still in business although in a different location. And even the new location is only a few blocks from the old one.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/SV7D0xHpt60J-bm6JpUYZw/l.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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