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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;green18, post: 423155, member: 10103&quot;]Evolution-any process of formation or growth; development.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As a young boy I used to collect just about anything out of the change, cents, nickels ,dimes, quarters and halfs. Back then you could still find a lot of good stuff....buffalos, standing liberty quarters, walking liberty halfs, all well worn and nothing in mint state but hey, I&#039;m just a young collector and having fun to boot. War years silver nickels were one of my favorites and I saved a ton of them. I still have all of the coins that I picked up back then; they are my roots, my foundation.</p><p>Gradually, as I grew older, and went on to college and career, I stopped looking for coins in my change and concentrated on mint and proof sets. I was more focused on these and for a time they were the only thing I collected. Then came marriage and kids and for a time I dropped out of the hobby. There were long lapses in proof and mint collections and every once in a while I&#039;d peek back into the hobby and try to pick up where I left off but not with much enthusiasm and no direction at all.</p><p>The State Quarters program began back in &#039;99 but I didn&#039;t notice much...too busy with my work. When retirement came in 2000 I found I had a lot of extra time, and an internet connection, and on a whim visited the US mint web site. That set the hook....I was back in the hobby if only in a limited way. You see I really didn&#039;t have much experiance in collecting anything other than proof and mint sets. I didn&#039;t have any friends who were interested in the hobby so I really was rather isolated and in my own world.</p><p>I guess you could say my evolution began when I found this web site a little over a year ago....It, and all of you folks here, have really broadened my out look on collecting. So many of you have given warm and helpful advice and it has changed my whole outlook on the hobby. I probably should have put this last paragraph first and spared you all my running off of the keyboard (LOL).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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