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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 4243998, member: 87200&quot;]Nice story Donna.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately I sold the first coin I ever bought when I liquidated my first collection (college expenses). It was from Pearl Harbor Stamp and Coin in Aiea, Hawaii in 1980. I was ten at the time. Cost was $30.</p><p><br /></p><p>More or less very close to this one: Gordian III with a MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM reverse. They had a tray of ancients, presided over by a studious numismatic gentleman always wearing a Hawaiian shirt. I bought ten coins from him between 1980 and 1983 when we moved, as my Dad recieved orders to move back to San Diego. He had been the commander of a U.S. Navy frigate in Hawaii.</p><p><br /></p><p>I always liked my first coin and my imagination would travel back to the 230&#039;s as I wondered who might have held this coin, was it a soldier on his way to Persia for the war, or was it a merchant, or some everyday chap?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1083519[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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