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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KLJ, post: 37707, member: 1910&quot;]My attraction to coins took several weeks to work itself out.&nbsp; When I was about 11, I had a friend give me a Mercury dime for a regular quarter (he wanted candy at the 7-11, and the Merc was all he had).&nbsp; I had never seen one before, and thought it was interesting.&nbsp; I thought (except for wheat cents) that the US had always used the same coins.&nbsp; A few weeks later at church we had a &quot;festival of hobbies of the congregation.&quot;&nbsp; A member of the congregation had a large table of his coins.&nbsp; (Some of you may know him - Will Mumford.&nbsp; He was featured on the cover of CW on 8 December 2003 for finding a Chalmers threepence in an archaeological excavation in an Annapolis, MD basement.)&nbsp; The collection he was showing was so extensive (to a simple minded pre-teen) that I couldn&#039;t tear myself away.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been hooked ever since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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