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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2914291, member: 112&quot;]Give that man the cigar !!</p><p><br /></p><p>I think my son was about 8 when I took him to his first coin show - and I took 4 of his friends with him, boys and girls. At first they were all hesitant and stuck right to my coattails like glue. But with just a little talking and explaining all 5 of them were soon running around that coin like kids turned loose in a candy store. And all I heard for the next 5 hours was - Dad, Dad, look at this ! or Doug, Doug, look at this ! You have never seen 5 kids with bigger or more smiles on their faces - not even on Christmas morning ! And of course all of them went home with a great many treasures. And when I got home, I spent the rest of the night, until bedtime, watching my son search through about a hundred pounds of change - which was of course continued the next day until every single coin had been looked at - and about half of them set aside !</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for the upshot of the story, 7 or 8 years later all 5 of those kids were still collecting coins. With all of them making many frequent trips to my house to show off their acquisitions over the entire time period. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now that&#039;s just one example, there were a lot of other kids involved over the years, and many adults as well. Now the kids are understandable, but how did I get the adults interested ? Same kind of thing really - show them something they&#039;ve never seen and explain to them why it&#039;s cool ! </p><p><br /></p><p>For probably 15 years, maybe even a bit longer, I always carried one of these in my pocket, every single day.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]704324[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]704326[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And you&#039;d be surprised how many excuses there for pulling one of those out your pocket just in the course of everyday life. And when you do, why every adult within eyeball range is gonna wanna look at it ! They will literally stand in line to look at it !</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you hook every fish that comes to the bait ? Nahhhh, of course not. But ya are gonna hook quite a few. And in turn each one ya do is eventually going to get somebody else interested.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t even begin to count the number of collectors that I have initiated to the hobby, both directly and indirectly, over the course of my lifetime. But it&#039;s not hard, it&#039;s actually quite easy. All you have to do is have a bit of knowledge and something to show them that they&#039;ve never seen before. The rest just comes naturally <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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