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Australia
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 Posted 06/14/2012  10:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I am an old fashioned coin collector. I just collect old fashioned coins!

No coins before about 1950, right back as far as the invention of coinage!
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06/15/2012 10:55 am
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 Posted 06/14/2012  10:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Classic Coin Guy 661 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My dad got me into coin collecting when I was in high school. I remember the days we would go and bid at our local coin shop auctions. miss my dad and the times we spent together.

i liked reading your story.
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 Posted 06/15/2012  11:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BuffalosRock to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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I agree BuffalosRock... The worst part of that is it still happens now... just read what has been posted in the 'Is coin collecting harder for a YN?' thread.

To quote myself; "A dealer raised the price on an object when I was alone and dropped it when my father came."


Haven't read that thread, I will now though. This is part of what I was talking about in my "Sharks" thread. $#%^ dealers who profile and try to rip off novice collectors. that gives the whole hobby a bad name.

Part of the reason I stopped collecting as a kid was that my dad was so suspicious of all coin dealers he effectively wouldn't let me buy anything - worried it was a rip-off seeing as how he had no knowledge of the hobby himself - but was a salesman and recognized all the sleazy ploys they were using when we'd visit a shop loaclly or on vacation. I was frustrated at not being able to add anything "cool" like 3-leggers or gold or rare coins and just abandoned the whole hobby.
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