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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2669998, member: 19463&quot;]When I was 8 my parents divorced and I lived with my mother who was a nurse and worked a lot leaving me to care for myself.&nbsp; This is less fashionable these days.&nbsp; I started collecting US coins from circulation.&nbsp; Sometimes my mother would &#039;lend&#039; me $50 so I could get a bag of 5000 cents or lesser amounts of other denominations from a vending machine company near us.&nbsp; I would sort the coins, roll the losers and turn them in at the bank.&nbsp; I sold duplicates at a coin shop so I could pay back my mother until it was time to do it again.&nbsp; I thought paying more than one cent for a Lincoln was stupid and saved all the Indians I found so my collection grew slowly but I was making a profit on duplicates.&nbsp; Ocassionally I would trade for a dat I needed but I was starting to be bored with the rouine.&nbsp; One day I noticed the shop had a dish of ancients - a pick out pot - and had no problem paying 50 cents for an ancient since it did not have a denomination that would fit in a gumball machine.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In high school, I worked in an aquarium shop, stopped looking through bags but still scanned the store change and bought more and more ancients with my earnings.&nbsp; I took Latin in school but probably started that because I already had an interest in Roman history from the coins.&nbsp; It is hard to say which came first - the chicken or the egg.&nbsp; When I was graduated from college with AB in Classics, the Draft Board wouldn&#039;t let me go to Grad school so the coins and history became a hobby and the dream of being a college professor died.&nbsp; It has been a fun filled hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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