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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2275786, member: 32619&quot;]That&#039;s a wonderful medal!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a bit of an exonumia collector myself, specalizing in military trade tokens and by extension military themed exonumia. For me there isn&#039;t one particular coin or medal that got me serious about collecting or that I consider the start of my collection. However, this humble group of tokens from Grand Forks Air Force Base got me serious into collecting Air Force military trade tokens:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]454058[/ATTACH]</p><p>Those four tokens got me started collecting Air Force trade tokens. They&#039;re actually really nice in hand, this is the seller&#039;s picture and they don&#039;t do enough justice. As far as trade tokens go, I find I prefer the brass or nickel ones - these are brass and when you handle them you can actually feel their weight unlike aluminum tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now these two coins got me serious into ancients (ya...I&#039;ve posted them before a few times, but they can use all the love they can get!):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/septimius-severus.3141/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/philip-i.3142/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Come to think of it...this &quot;coin&quot; might actually be the genesis of my collection. It was given to me in basic training, a week before graduation. Of all the coins I own in a collection, this is the first. Ya, it didn&#039;t get me started collecting but it planted the seed. After this &quot;coin&quot; others would find there way into my collection and they would be packaged up, put with other mementos, and only looked at and reflected on when it was time to move. In fact, this coin is the start of it all.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/bmt-graduate.3032/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>(Sorry for the poor photo!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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