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<p>[QUOTE="Nicholas Devine, post: 2733550, member: 87435"]I'm very new to coin collecting but your great write up takes me back about 23 years. My fathers sister and her husband used to live in Fairfax Virginia, which is pretty much just a subway trip away from D.C. So they and my grandparents got the idea that as kind of s right of passage into our teens they would send me, my brother, and my sister out to visit my aunt for two weeks at the age of 12. After my brother had gone in 1990 and showed me all the cool pics he had taken I couldn't wait till my turn in 93. Now over two decades later all the amazing things I got to do on that trip are as distant a memory as another lifetime ago. I still remember all the great things I learned there but it's just not something that comes to mind often in the daily hustle. Just reading your post and looking at the photos opened a floodgate of great memories though because although things looked quite a bit different back then the Smithsonian's pendulum and NNC's rare coins were among my favorite sights. Anyway your accounts of the new exhibit are great, not only for stirring up fond memories, but alone as a nice review of one of the great honey pots D.C. has to offer. Thank you[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nicholas Devine, post: 2733550, member: 87435"]I'm very new to coin collecting but your great write up takes me back about 23 years. My fathers sister and her husband used to live in Fairfax Virginia, which is pretty much just a subway trip away from D.C. So they and my grandparents got the idea that as kind of s right of passage into our teens they would send me, my brother, and my sister out to visit my aunt for two weeks at the age of 12. After my brother had gone in 1990 and showed me all the cool pics he had taken I couldn't wait till my turn in 93. Now over two decades later all the amazing things I got to do on that trip are as distant a memory as another lifetime ago. I still remember all the great things I learned there but it's just not something that comes to mind often in the daily hustle. Just reading your post and looking at the photos opened a floodgate of great memories though because although things looked quite a bit different back then the Smithsonian's pendulum and NNC's rare coins were among my favorite sights. Anyway your accounts of the new exhibit are great, not only for stirring up fond memories, but alone as a nice review of one of the great honey pots D.C. has to offer. Thank you[/QUOTE]
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