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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;steve63, post: 2545457, member: 76463&quot;]My best find was my first find.&nbsp; When I was a kid my Dad tore down our back porch to make room for construction of an additional room.&nbsp; The original house had been built in the 1920s and the porch floor had wide slits between the boards.&nbsp; I remember peering through those slits as a small kid and seeing some glimpses of silver in the dirt from coins that had fallen down and rolled between the slits over the years.&nbsp; Once the porch came down, I went through the ground and dug up all the coins I could find.&nbsp; I don&#039;t remember the exact count but I must have found at least a dozen coins, most of them dimes and quarters from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.&nbsp; My Dad explained to me how all of it was silver since it was mostly pre-1964 coinage (I&#039;m guessing something must have happened sometime during 1940s where somebody dropped a bag or a purse while they were on the porch and a bunch of coins were lost and they didn&#039;t think it was worth tearing up the porch floor to get them&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure what else would why so many of the coins were pre-1964).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, that&#039;s what got me excited about coins and I started collecting after that.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I&#039;ve never been able to hit a jackpot like that again at one time![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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