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How did you get into this business?
As a kid, I collected all kinds of things: match covers, stamps, coins, trading cards, buttons. I collected all kinds of things. After finishing four years of college and one year of law school, which I hated, I took a job in the coin department at Kaufman's in Pittsburgh. The coin store was a leased space run by the Friedbergs, who owned the Coin and Currency Institute which ran leased departments in department stores across the country. Then I had an opportunity to take over their store in Washington, D.C. at Woodward and Lowthrop. I was single then and jumped at the opportunity. That was 1963. When the Friedbergs closed down that department in 1979, I took over the Friedbergs' inventory on consignment and set of on my own, establishing Capitol Coin & Stamp on Connecticut and L Street. I've been collecting and helping other collectors ever since!
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Secretary of State Blinken Challenge Coin
Item number 42269
Date 2023
Price $125.00 add to cart
President Biden Visit to Vietnam Challenge Coin
Item number 42267
Date 2023
Price $60.00 add to cart
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