Coin collecting has long been a hobby of mine. As a small boy, I would look through my Grandfather's coin collection every time I visited my Grandmother, until, eventually, she bequeathed them to me. Although he had passed away a few months after my birth, it gave me some sort of connection with him; a personal look into one of his passions. It was an interest he shared with my father which became an interest in common between my father and I, and one day I hope to share it with my own children.