What is your best “discovery” story from your time as a collector?

The best discovery I ever made was that which started me collecting bank notes.

My grandmother, who was Australian, gave me an old World Atlas for my 8th birthday, just before she returned to Tasmania. It was a hefty tome with heavy, very glossy pages all of which presented a world that was largely pink, this being the color used to attribute half the countries of the world to that unholy union that was called The British Empire.

I have to admit