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When I Was 6.......One night my dad brought home a great big sack of change from the Pine Cone Cafe in Lynnwood, WA, along with some blue Whitman Lincoln Head Cent folders. My brother and I helped him sort through the change and pull silver coins out. We worked on filling up holes in the penny folders and I was hooked....a numismatist for life. He took me to my first coin show at the Everett Coin Club in 1968 and I still have the wooden nickel. I have memberships in the following organizations:
Everett Coin Club - www.everettcoinclub.org
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association - www.pnna.org
American Numismatic Association - www.money.org
My collecting interests include US Coins (especially rare die varieties), Tokens and Medals, Canadian Coins, Mexican Coins, US and Foreign Currency from WWII, and Short Snorters.
In November of 2002, I read an article in The Numismatist, official publication of the American Numismatic Association, about short snorters. About six months later I saw an old farmer friend for whom I worked during the summers during my high school years. I learned that he had flown US Navy Transports in WWII and actually flew Admiral Nimitz and his staff into Tokyo Bay for the surrender of the Japanese. He had a short snorter with all those signatures and that sparked me to start The Short Snorter Project and the web site www.shortsnorter.org.
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