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8 September 2008

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Hobby leads to coin career - 2theadvocate.com

A handful of coins gave Louis Pizzolatto a history lesson, a hobby and his livelihood. Soon after Pizzolatto received a group of coins from his grandparents when he was a child, he started studying the stories behind the coins.

“I like the history part of it,” he said. “That is what got me into it. I went back and did the research. My collecting interest developed from there.”

Pizzolatto’s introduction to coin shops came “in the late ’60s or early ’70s.” He went with his mom to Dorman’s Camera Shop in the Oil Center.

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