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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;placement93, post: 1624360, member: 39525&quot;]As a kid, I really enjoyed collecting sports cards and memorabilia with my dad and brother.&nbsp; I knew my dad was a bullion collector, but he never really talked about it much.&nbsp; I knew even less about his father&#039;s coin collecting, but I&#039;ve recently learned that he has a pretty impressive collection that&#039;s spanned 60 or 70 years.&nbsp; I&#039;m not at all close to my grandfather, so I&#039;ll likely never know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, fast-forward past youthful innocence, rebellious teenage years and a series of profound existential crises in my early to mid-20&#039;s that led me from drug experimentation to heavy heroin and cocaine addiction.&nbsp; It took three overdoses and waking up with a tube in my throat to finally get me off to rehab.</p><p><br /></p><p>Drugs and the drug lifestyle is extremely time consuming.&nbsp; My first couple of weeks sober were powerfully boring.&nbsp; Skipping past the how&#039;s and why&#039;s, I decided that roll-hunting cents to hoard copper could be a good time killer.&nbsp; The turning point for me was finding a 1909 VDB in bank rolled cents.&nbsp; I found an Indian Head and some other early wheat cents, but I got excited like I hadn&#039;t been in a very long time finding that coin.&nbsp; Over the first few months, my dad got me some Whitman books and pulled out some coins he had saved for me for years.&nbsp; Moving on, I got my family back together, got working again, rebuilt relationships with my parents, etc., and I can honestly say that coins have been an integral part of filling a gaping hole in my life.</p><p><br /></p><p>As of the 20th of this month, I have two and a half years clean.&nbsp; Thanks for letting me share. :smile[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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