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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 3275402, member: 87200"]I started collecting in earnest when I was 11. I lived in Hawaii at the time and a local coin store at the mall had a proprietor interested in ancients. My first coin was a GLORIA EXERCITVS type of Constantius II which was small, but had a beautiful patina and I couldn't believe the fact that the coin was over 1700 years old and depicted a couple of Roman soldiers - how cool was that?</p><p><br /></p><p>I kept on collecting using funds from my $.75 weekly allowance plus my lawn mowing business, which was pretty extensive. I could pretty much buy 1 coin per week. My second coin was a Gordian III and my 3rd was a Phillip the Arab sestertius, it goes on and on. I moved to the Bay Area at 13 and finding only one dealer in ancients in the phone book I went to see Frank L. Kovacs at his office on Post Street in San Francisco. We developed kind of a mentoring relationship where he would put aside coins that fit my budget. Then I used funds from my paper route to keep buying coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I stopped collecting at 18 when I went to college. Then I got married and went to grad school for an MBA, followed by a Ph.D. I didn't start again until my kids were 20 and 18 and had less use for their Dad. That was in 2016. I bought three uncleaned hoards and attributed them, then I one day found this Forum - April 28, 2017 based on a google search and I joined. I switched to collecting individual coins and have bought 60 coins so far. </p><p><br /></p><p>My interest in US coins was slight. I did find an Indian-head cent once in my change as well as a Sitting Bull nickel plus a couple of pre 1964 quarters when they had silver in them. As for world coins I had a lot of these plus currency from other countries because my Dad was in the Navy and would give me whatever coins he had gathered in his voyages around the world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 3275402, member: 87200"]I started collecting in earnest when I was 11. I lived in Hawaii at the time and a local coin store at the mall had a proprietor interested in ancients. My first coin was a GLORIA EXERCITVS type of Constantius II which was small, but had a beautiful patina and I couldn't believe the fact that the coin was over 1700 years old and depicted a couple of Roman soldiers - how cool was that? I kept on collecting using funds from my $.75 weekly allowance plus my lawn mowing business, which was pretty extensive. I could pretty much buy 1 coin per week. My second coin was a Gordian III and my 3rd was a Phillip the Arab sestertius, it goes on and on. I moved to the Bay Area at 13 and finding only one dealer in ancients in the phone book I went to see Frank L. Kovacs at his office on Post Street in San Francisco. We developed kind of a mentoring relationship where he would put aside coins that fit my budget. Then I used funds from my paper route to keep buying coins. I stopped collecting at 18 when I went to college. Then I got married and went to grad school for an MBA, followed by a Ph.D. I didn't start again until my kids were 20 and 18 and had less use for their Dad. That was in 2016. I bought three uncleaned hoards and attributed them, then I one day found this Forum - April 28, 2017 based on a google search and I joined. I switched to collecting individual coins and have bought 60 coins so far. My interest in US coins was slight. I did find an Indian-head cent once in my change as well as a Sitting Bull nickel plus a couple of pre 1964 quarters when they had silver in them. As for world coins I had a lot of these plus currency from other countries because my Dad was in the Navy and would give me whatever coins he had gathered in his voyages around the world.[/QUOTE]
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