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Valued Member
United States
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Had a customer pay in coins ... checked values ... hooked!
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United Kingdom
548 Posts |
I bought my first silver coin in 2011, a Silver Eagle. Since then I've started a collection of silver bullion coins. No duplicates.
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Valued Member
United States
449 Posts |
being a cashier in h.s and seeing wheats pass by I started saving them. then the start of the State Quarters, I would pull new ones out of rolls when I would cashier. but what really got me into it was the ATB's after ten years of going dormat. |
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United States
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Finding wheat pennies in my change not too long after moving to the United States. I was about 7 or 8. Thought that old wheat pennies were like the greatest thing since sliced bread, and got hooked on collecting. My interests died down after a few years, and now I'm back to collecting!  |
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United States
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 This coin started it for me. The 1919 Lincoln Wheat cent. I was about 8-9 years old and in my grandmother's kitchen. She used to go to Las Vegas several times a year and always kept a cup of change to take with her for playing slots when she'd go. In one such cup, I found a bunch of wheat cents. I looked through them out of curiosity. When I found this 1919, I just KNEW it had to be the oldest thing ever made. I kept it, and decided to try to get one of each year (not worried about the mint marks back then). I made a date set of wheats, mixed mints, from 1940-1958. I have since upgraded my set to BU, but this one will always have a special place in my collection. |
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United States
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It was Kathy M. circa 1988. I was in the Coast Guard and she was in the bar .  Wrong bug! Mmmmmuuuuuuaaaaahhhhhhh!!]  I remember there was a Mercury dime always sat on my grandparents kitchen table. |
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United States
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I had collected sporadically since the age of nine-I collected the 50 State Quarters, found a Wheat cent in circulation, my mother gave me an Ike, a silver quarter, and I found a 1942 Merc on the cafeteria floor in middle school (covered in ketchup, no less). What really set me off was a dateless Buffalo I received in change in 2010. It was the shot in the arm that opened my eyes to the world of collecting and I spent the next three years assembling sets of circulation strikes for my favorite series. Some of the sets are partial because I decided to focus on say, the 1930's instead of the whole series of Mercs and Walkers, but that nickel has led to an adventure for me. |
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United States
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No one in my family collects coins so this is a new endeavor for my family name. I got the bug from a former bank teller neighbor who told me about CRH. Did some research on Kennedy half hunting and I have been hooked ever since. I hunt Kennedy's and Jefferson's weekly now. |
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United States
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The first hand full of Morgans did it for me.
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United States
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In the late 80's, when I was a pre-teen, my great aunt gave me her modest collection of coins she kept in Whitman folders. The only thing of any significant value (i.e., greater than $10) were two Indian cents: an 1867 (G4) and an 1871 (G4, pitting). Nonetheless, I was taken by seeing a cent with something other than Lincoln's profile and amazed by two coins more than 100 years older than I was. After combing through circulation to try to fill up the Whitmans, I stopped after a year or so because of teenage distractions (video games), and Aunt Mary's coin collection went into the closet. Two years ago, when cleaning out closets, I came upon the collection, was again mesmerized, and really began collecting in earnest (having more money now than I did as a 12 year old certainly helps). I may buy some pricey pieces from time to time in putting together sets, but those 1864 and 1871 Indian cents will always stay with me. |
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United States
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I ended up with a portion of my fathers collection. The Whitman folders had holes that were not filled and my OCD kicked in...
I knew he was into collecting but as a kid I never paid much attention to it. Wish now that I had.
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United States
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Very similar to most, I guess. My dad once showed me the Whitman book he had for early Lincolns and a small canister of odds and ends. I was in awe of the history behind each one. I still wonder about the journey some of these things take.
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United States
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I got my interest in coin collecting back in the early 50`s and I had a paper route in rural Iowa and collected alot of change and one of my customers would go through and buy all my change and she got me interested in coins.
I managed to collect almost complete sets of most. I started going through rolls from the banks. I got 1937d 3 leg, 31s cents, 08s IH plus others. Good way for a kid to save money.
This Easter one of my grandsons (11yrs old) came down. And likes coins. So I gave him a set of lincolns missing 10-12 keys. plus a bunch of odd coins.
It made me feel so good to see the look on his face when I gave him those coins. We sat for several hours just looking and talking coins and what to look for.
Im close to 70 and I am glad to have someone that appreciates the hobby that I could leave my collection to.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Be sure you are very specific about who you want to leave it to, and secure it so as to keep it from being pilfered prior to turnover.
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