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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 216179, member: 6229"]In 1959 I inherited some old coins my father had. My mother told me dad thought some of them were valuable. An uncle, when he heard I had dad's coins, gave me a coin catalog put out by B. Max Mehl. I was hooked. A collector constantly ran a classified ad in the local paper offering to buy old coins. I contacted him and he gave me a Red Book, and the next thing I knew, was I became a member of two out-of-town coin clubs, and with the help of two other collectors and the YMCA, started a coin club in our city. I was voted in as President and auctioneer. At first I collected anything and everything. I became a coin dealer in Florida, but a heart attack took me out of that and I sold everything. In 2005 I suffered a stroke which paralyzed my whole left side. In 2006 I was getting an itch to collect coins again. This time, because of my infirmities, I decided to collect world coins dated 1935, my birth year. I further decided to hone this down to silver coins. That is what I mainly collect, but I must confess, I have expanded that to Canada Dollars, Mexican 8 Reales, 100 Peso Proofs, Onzas and Libertads, and Chinese Dollars. Clinker[/QUOTE]