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> It's coins for me, and I usually collect those passively. I just got a Missouri quarter from a meal transaction during my recent trip. That leaves Arkansas from last year and Mississippi from the year before, and I'll be pretty much caught up with the years before this one. I usually get foreign coins because of their resemblance to American money.
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> Nyperold

That's the way I started out. Back when the only nickels I ever saw had buffalos on them, I noticed one that I got in change that had a V on the back. So I kept it. I was only about five, and couldn't read yet, but I knew that one was different. So by the time I was 7 I had several. That was it, until about 1946 when I was nearly 13. My uncle gave me an Australian "Flo Rin" that someone had passed on him for a half-dollar. So I was off and running, looking for coins that were different. Now, my coin collection weights about 40 pounds.
Howard