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<p>[QUOTE="Seattlite86, post: 3234596, member: 59737"]Apparently mine is genetic. My mother passed in the 90s, which I didn’t know until 2012, because I hadn’t seen her since I was two years old, when she gave us kids up after our home (the car we’d been living in for months) burned down and we lost what little we had. When I finally met my long lost relatives in 2013, I found out she had a coin collection and I had the honor of organizing and encasing it (coins only had sentimental value, nothing of worth) and presenting it to our oldest brother, who remained with her when we separated. </p><p><br /></p><p>Officially, a generous old man started a coin club at my middle school and taught us the basics of grading, storing coins, and even took us to our first coin show. Even though that collection was stolen, I never shook the collecting bug.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Seattlite86, post: 3234596, member: 59737"]Apparently mine is genetic. My mother passed in the 90s, which I didn’t know until 2012, because I hadn’t seen her since I was two years old, when she gave us kids up after our home (the car we’d been living in for months) burned down and we lost what little we had. When I finally met my long lost relatives in 2013, I found out she had a coin collection and I had the honor of organizing and encasing it (coins only had sentimental value, nothing of worth) and presenting it to our oldest brother, who remained with her when we separated. Officially, a generous old man started a coin club at my middle school and taught us the basics of grading, storing coins, and even took us to our first coin show. Even though that collection was stolen, I never shook the collecting bug.[/QUOTE]
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