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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3372604, member: 66&quot;]I first became interested in coins back in 1966.&nbsp; I started collecting in 1972 and worked my way through Lincolns, Jefferson nickels, V nickels, Shield nickels, and buffalos, then Indian head cents, two cent, three cents 20 cent pieces and finally Seated Half Dimes.&nbsp; In 1982 I became interested in early&nbsp; large cents and joined EAC.&nbsp; In 1985 I started a date set of the Draped bust cents, I knew I couldn&#039;t do the varieties.&nbsp; Then two years later a collector aquaintence who was getting out of early copper made me an offer I couldn&#039;t refuse for 30 draped bust cents varieties.&nbsp; That gave me about 45 varieties and I was on my way.&nbsp; I added the Classic heads and then later the Liberty caps and today I have 259 of the 295 varieties.&nbsp; I lack only two varieties after 1794.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1992 large cents were getting more difficult to get and I turned to a similar item (I&#039;d fallen in love with copper).&nbsp; I started collecting Conder tokens, large cent sized 18th century copper British trade tokens that were available in high grade inexpensively.&nbsp; I started just trying to get one pieces from each of the English counties.&nbsp; I believe that was 38 counties (but one is pretty much impossible.&nbsp; Leichestshire only issued one token and the mintage was 18 pieces.)&nbsp; By 1997 I had finished that and expanded my sights to an example of each of the &quot;Genuine Trade Tokens&quot;.&nbsp; These were pieces that were issued by merchants and actually intended to circulate as money. (As opposed to pieces made for collectors or anonymous pieces intended to circulate that had no indication of where they could be redeemed.)&nbsp; There are about 650 different GTT&#039;s, I have 555 of them.&nbsp; Eventually I just started picking up other varieties that I didn&#039;t have, I currently have 950 different varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>About the same time I started collecting the Conder tokens seriously, I also began assembling my reference set of Authentication Services and Third Party Grading Service certificates and holders.</p><p><br /></p><p>So those have been my primary focus for the past 36 years, Early date large cents by variety, Conder tokens by variety, and slabs,certificates by company and variety.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="7"><span style="color: #ff0000">*** 20,000th POST!! ***</span></font></p><p><font size="7"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Now you won&#039;t have to</font><span style="color: #000000"> <font size="4">put up with my countdown anymore.&nbsp; Or at least not til I get close to 25 or 30 thousand.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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