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Describe the moment/event when you knew collecting coins was going to be a serious hobby for you.
I knew coin collecting was going to be a serious hobby in the late 1960s when my grandmother gave me four V nickels in a metal Anacin container.
Rodney Johnson
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I was in elementary school and my mother several times a year would take me to my grandparents’ who owned and operated a greenhouse. Every Christmas we would visit and I could pick me out a plant but more excitedly, he would let me put my hand in a big toolbox of coins that he had collected as the greenhouse owner. I could keep whatever amount of coins, regardless of the type or value, that I was able to hold in my hand when I pulled my hand out! That was so exciting. Then I always from then on loved collecting coins (except when
