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Subject:
Coins for Shells
From:
Douglas Nolen Shelton <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:00:25 EST
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OK, to turn this coin discussion back to shells, has anyone ever gathered,
saved, "stolen" coins to buy shells?  I remember when I was 14 as a young
beginning collector scraping together enough coins to place my first order for
shells from the late Kirk Anders.  It was indeed Christmas in August when the
package arrived; my first Pleuroploca gigantea collected by Kirk Anders
himself.  Now nearly 25 years later I still treasure that shell not for what
it is, but because of its legacy and my memories from so may years ago.
 
Doug Shelton
Alabama Malacological Research Center
2370-G Hillcrest Road #236
Mobile, AL 36695

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