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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 162939, member: 3011&quot;]When I was a kid, there were a lot of canadian coins circulating around.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why because for the most part it is rare to see one anymore.&nbsp; I started to collect them out of my parents pocket change.&nbsp; I was amazed by them because they came from so far away.&nbsp; My cousin and uncle collected coins, and my grandfather had many morgan and peace dollars that he saved from before the Depression.&nbsp; He never had a bank account in his life, and the silver dollars were his &quot;savings account.&quot;&nbsp; This made me realize that coins came from far away times as well as far away places.&nbsp;&nbsp; My interest in coins was resurrected a few years ago from a series of economic/investment studies that got me interested in the now extinct age when money actually had intrinsic value, so I restarted the collecting hobby with mostly silver [and some gold] coins.&nbsp; I have to admit that I&#039;m still more interested in how old a coin is, where it came from, what it is made of, and whether or not I can get it for a bargain price than I am about the condition, and I&#039;m perfectly happy with circulated coins.&nbsp; Circulated coins contain more magic anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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