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Message:: [QUOTE="kazuma78, post: 2192689, member: 17304"]I dont have a picture of my first coin but I can tell you the story. I grew up in Ohio and used to spend alot of time looking in the fields for Indian artifacts. My father and I spent countless hours going out and looking for them. We often came across where old houses had been and were torn down, you could tell from all the glass and pottery around the site, usually on a hill. I was probably about 7 years old when we were looking one day and I found a very dirty and corroded 1851 large cent. I thought it was interesting but didnt think too much about it. A couple weeks later we were looking in another field and I found a 1907 barber dime. I thought it was neat and a few days later went to the local antique store and found some mercury dimes that I bought at 50 cents each. I liked them alot and just kept buying coins I could afford on practically no money and kept collecting through high school. I bought alot of coin collections in my area while I was in junior high and high school and kept collecting through college. I still buy some nice coins every now and again but focus now on saving for a house and retirement and such.[/QUOTE]