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Love it, and it’s on its way to me now. Already have the matching mini 2021 gold one. Anything Perth always gets my attention. Beautiful!

New here, so this seemed like a good place to start! My dad always considered himself a numismatist, and showed me pieces from his collection starting at an early age. My first coin was the Colombian half dollar, 1892, which was the first US Commemorative coin. He’d always have me hold and spin on a table pieces of silver to “hear” and learn what silver sounds and feels like. In 1992, age 11, holding a 100 year old piece of history made of 90% silver sparked an interest that would go on forever. For the first 7 years, it was mostly collecting half dollars, dollar coins, silver pieces, silver Canadian pieces, bicentennial items and random world coins - all of which would be found in daily change. No actual cash spent. Those all occupied a velvet jewelry box. Then in 1999, at 18, he started my formal collection with the silver proof sets yearly until he passed away. He also helped to find the first of four first spouse gold liberty subset items. I bought it, was expensive, but absolutely love it. I’ve since purchased those silver sets every year since, and also completed the gold liberty subset, all OGP. The state quarters & then parks have such variety, love admiring them! The 2009 set in particular has so many trays, it’s like out of hand, love it. My son carries the metal spark that my dad and I had or have. His start was going through a tin full of loose change looking for the special items my dad would put in it. If found, he got to keep them. Special items would be mercury dime, silver quarter, steel penny, buffalo nickel, etc. At under 18, he already has a formal collection, focusing on classic proof sets prior to 1970, and new silver 1oz coins. We both love anything by the Perth Mint! I could go on for days about what our collections consist of, but this post is about origin, and covers a couple of generations. Looking forward to reading about more of your metal villain origin stories!