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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rick, post: 49580, member: 1235&quot;]I&#039;ve been thinking about this quite a bit with my own step-kids.&nbsp; None of them seem at all interested in collecting, although one is beginning to ask if he can go with me to shows.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think part of that result is my fault.&nbsp; When I was young, foreign coins and even silver change seemed like a rare thing to come across.&nbsp; As kids, often time, rare things are things that catch our interest the most - at least, that was how it was for me.&nbsp; I think the problem is that, with me being a collector, those pieces that I found &#039;rare&#039; as a kid are common place to my own... common and boring.&nbsp; I&#039;ve let them go through my box of bulk foreign coins - I&#039;ve let them share whatever they want, from that box, with their friends and classmates.&nbsp; Now, that doesn&#039;t seem very interesting to them anymore.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After one show, I brought home as silver gigliato that I had purchased - and everyone wanted to hold the coin that was over 600 years old.&nbsp; Eyes were wide as they looked at it in their hands...&nbsp; Maybe I should have given it to one of them to hang on to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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