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Message:: [QUOTE="riff, post: 1624080, member: 36853"]if you feel like sharing what got you started in this hobby, please do. i will start: earlier last year we literally found buried treasure. my wifes uncle passed away pretty much destitute after a career as a doctor. his wife(my wifes aunt) and himself spent money like it was going out of fashion while he had his practice, and continued to do so after he retired and sold his practice. his health got really bad in the last ten years, and he ended up senile and unable to really communicate. medical bills wiped out any savings, and right after he passed, his wife moved out of the house they had. while cleaning out the house, we found about $35,000 in silver and gold coins and raw nuggets, and another 6-7k worth of coins with numismatic value. no one knew hoard existed, not even his wife. it fell upon me to appraise, catalog, and sell the collection for his wife. she gave me a a large chunk of the collection for myself because she would have had her son(who refused to even take any time or effort into looking at the coins for her) take it to a pawn shop and lost it all anyway. well this was the site that i came to for help with what i had, and the passion people had for coins rubbed off on me. i started my own collection, and here i am today.  and BTW, i was looking at my first posts on this site, and it breaks my heart at the thought of any varieties i may have let slip away in all the OGP boxes i sold.[/QUOTE]