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Valued Member
United States
337 Posts |
I'm here with my wife at a non-coin convention and her friends are all aware that I've just begun to collect coins.
As a gift, they gave me a Canadian loony, a couple of Jamaican coins worth one dollar each, and two coins that are labeled East Caribbean States with a sailing ship on the reverse.
That was so nice of them!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3540 Posts |
They must think you need something to keep you busy? :)
Good luck!
Of note, this hobby of yours will flush something from the woodwork from one of the friends though...keep your antenna up!
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Valued Member
 United States
337 Posts |
Good advice. It's a collectible doll convention. I'm just tagging along. So yes, I think they are trying to keep me from getting bored.
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Valued Member
United States
71 Posts |
Good luck with a great hobby
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Valued Member
United States
200 Posts |
You do have some good friends. Best of luck on your collections.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
In many work places that is similar. One place I used to work had employees from many different countries. Once I mentioned I collect coins I was bombarded with coins from all over the World. I sort of forgot to tell them I only collected USA coins. And possibly even if I did tell them, they would have given those.
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Moderator
 United States
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Very nice!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4962 Posts |
getting coins for other people is pretty much what got me into coins, my family kept getting coin for my dad who was working on some State Quarter collections. it was fun hunting for him, so I started collecting myself. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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Earlier this year while on vacation I met a very nice teacher from Wisconsin. While talking about money and coins with her she indicated that in all her time she had never seen Canadian coins. Aghast at the notion I dispatched to get some coins for her. I freely gave her one of each type of Canadian coinage, she immediately went for her purse to pay me back in US currency, but this was not necessary. Actually I thought Wisconsin was so close to Canada that she might have tallied a few in her life, but this was not the case.  |
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Australia
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...and two coins that are labeled East Caribbean States with a sailing ship on the reverse. In case you are wondering, the East Caribbean States dollar is a currency union used by numerous island-states in the eastern Caribbean that are too small to issue their own circulating coinages. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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