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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spark1951, post: 4798950, member: 90692&quot;]I started in 1962, age 11.&nbsp; At Christmas, my grandmother gave my brother and I each a spring loaded rocket coin bank and a pile of pennies.&nbsp; We sat there for hours shooting pennies into the slot in the rocket...because it was a rocket!&nbsp; Don’cha know.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In the mid-60s she gave us mint sets because she couldn’t get proof sets...Special Mint Sets...65, 66 and 67...as well as regular sets.&nbsp;&nbsp; By that time I was several hundred IHC, wheat, buffalo and mercs collected.&nbsp; I have now, after 58 years, given parts of my collection to my sons and am mentoring my niece in Houston who just turned 11 yo.</p><p><br /></p><p>The interest is there.&nbsp; Like the rest of us life happens and may inject a pause here and there, but it’s always magical to collect beautiful jewel-like coins and they lure you back to the hobby...Spark[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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