I started collecting coins back in 1962 when as a proud eight year old, I had just finished showing my Grandfather my stamp collection and was told Steve it's (he was a retired Post Master), however you should collect coins. Well that did it, I went into my room and smashed my piggy bank.
After sometime I came back out with my Brand New Coin Collection, The oldest penny was a 1926 , a few Standing Liberty Quarters & Half Dollars. I can still see those quarters and how funny they where as they had no dates. Two coins that I had a few hundred of where Newfoundland coins that my dad pulled from change when we where stationed there (My Dad was in the U.S. Air Force) at Harmens Field , not far from Corners Brook & Stephensvill.
Over the years I never stopped collecting & dealing in Coins & Stamps and during the Vietnam War we where stationed at Naha Okinawa, started both my collecting and studying of Ryukyu Island Stamps. I still remember often taking the Army bus line downtown to the corner where AFNRTVR ( The American Radio station), getting off the bus and walking about a mile to visit the Naha Main Post Office of the GRI. On the corner across from the Post office was an Okinawan Stamp & Coin Dealer that I would always go into , sometimes to buy, most of the time just to look, Money was always in short supply during the summers I wold work for the Air Force @ Fifty cents an hour & even had to pay tax on it. Well it was November 1967 and New Years Card UX33 had just been issued and it was g news in that Coin & Stamp shop and looked at the one he had and the error UX33a Gold color omitted. Well I bought hundreds of the cards at the Post Office every time I went downtown and never did find one until just two weeks ago here on Ebay in a lot of Joe Bush "So called Un-Offical" Mihons, it turned out to have the very rare UX33a and making it an Ultra Rare card.
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