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<p>[QUOTE="djbuna, post: 576994, member: 6119"]We had a huge yard sale this weekend and I always put a few coins out, wheat rolls, binders of cents, nickles, etc. I had a young man show up late in the afternoon with a plethora of questions! He was quite obviously very interested and unfortunely misinformed. So, being the old man I am(my wife says we all talk too much) we spent the next two hours in a question and answer period. He learned about mint marks, proofs, silver vs clad, obsolete vs modern and so forth. I gave him a redbook, a type set folder, a 09 VDB, and the Cointalk web address. As he finally left I smiled and remembered back to 1964, when an old part-time dealer had done the same for an uninformed 19 year old that has kept me in the hobby for the next 44 years.</p><p>When you get the opportunity to teach, remember your early teachers. That is what will keep our hobby going forever![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="djbuna, post: 576994, member: 6119"]We had a huge yard sale this weekend and I always put a few coins out, wheat rolls, binders of cents, nickles, etc. I had a young man show up late in the afternoon with a plethora of questions! He was quite obviously very interested and unfortunely misinformed. So, being the old man I am(my wife says we all talk too much) we spent the next two hours in a question and answer period. He learned about mint marks, proofs, silver vs clad, obsolete vs modern and so forth. I gave him a redbook, a type set folder, a 09 VDB, and the Cointalk web address. As he finally left I smiled and remembered back to 1964, when an old part-time dealer had done the same for an uninformed 19 year old that has kept me in the hobby for the next 44 years. When you get the opportunity to teach, remember your early teachers. That is what will keep our hobby going forever![/QUOTE]
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