Where Should I Go Now?

I would try to build a nice set of silver dimes.
(I had my first GOLD coin at 14! Paid for that with saved proceeds from a part time job.)

Silver dimes won't cost you much if you buy them, and there is always the chance you can find them with the occasional coin roll hunt. You can always scratch through dealers' junk boxes to find them also.

Even if you get low grade examples, or you want to upgrade, they are SILVER, and you can collect the silver as secondary set or just collect silver bullion, without making a special effort to acquire silver, by buying silver rounds, or silver Ikes.

Always nice with Mercury dimes, to get FULL Split Bands, even if they are of a common date. If you get FSB's with scarcer dates, then they can become the 'stars' of your collection!

If you are into Wheaties, that's fine. Even cheaper than dimes (for the most part), and you also may be lucky enough to find the occasional nice example from pocket change, without necessarily going to CRH.

Ask your friends and neighbours if you can go through their cookie barrels of bulk change. THAT saves the problem of having to visit a bank, and you can look for ANY denomination that catches your eye.

Cruisinfusion: Hey, good luck on that computer. I recently built one back in May, and it really isn't as hard as it sounds. Just have to make sure all of the parts are compatible and that your case is big enough etc.

Joe2007: Okay, I guess the earlier the better when it comes to learning about coins. Thanks for the suggestion.

sel_691: Cool, I think I was going to inherit a LOT of silver dimes (my grandfather has over 20,000). But sadly, those are the first coins on the list to be sold for my grandmother. Which is fine, it is going for a better cause and I don't need them. But maybe I'll try CHR for silver dimes sometime.

Avshater22: I have been buying a few old wheat rolls from ebay. I don't know if you guys saw my other thread but in one of them I got a 1907 IH in the middle. So recently, I bought from a different guy who has 1000s of these rolls for sale. Only $6.95 a roll with free shipping, and lots of good reviews! Maybe I'll do some more chores around the house and get some dime rolls. I think I'd like to collect a variety of coins, and not just one denomination. Seems a little boring for me to just collect on type of coin.

But, I do have one HUGE goal in life when it comes to coin collecting. I would like to have a full set of all the CC Morgan dollars. I thought that I would do that throughout my life and not just when I'm retired.

Thanks for the replies everyone,

Mark

There are goods and bads about being 13 and getting into coin collecting. The good is you have plenty of time to look for coins. The bad naturally is just what will be around in the near future. Unfortunately right now the hobby of coin collecting is sort of to big. Way to many people attempting to collect coins and in many instances, more collectors than many coins. For example if you were to attempt to collect Mercury dimes. With a population of over 300 million people in the USA and some of those Dimes had mintages of less than two million, what are your chances finding those? Not good for sure. However, as you get older and can drive a car, there are more and more coin shows popping up and you can find many coins at those.
The main thing is to acquire as much as you can now. In the not to distant future, coins may not exist at all. The world of credit and debit cards will take over.

Go after a Franklin set! I wouldn't stay too limited with what you buy, it has to be fun after all. Buy whatever interests you, you can't go wrong that way.

I like the idea John. My older brother works at a winery gets a very high paycheck every month or so. They said that they would take me when I'm 16 and I could bus tables. That will hopefully be a full time job. But until then, I have a neighborhood full of people just waiting for their grass to get cut! I think when I have saved up a lot of money, I'll maybe get a morgan or some type of silver coin. Then in the mean time, every now and then I'll buy a roll or two of pennies from ebay.

Mark

If you like wheaties this would be right up your alley...https://goccf.com/t/38685
You can amass quite a few in a very short time just roll hunting and it doesn't really cost much at all.

Mark - it's absolutely wonderful that you are an interested coin collector at your age.

One of my regrets was selling my coin collection as a teen to buy a fancy sound system. I eventually returned to collecting in mid-age. So, perhaps the lesson is to not tie too much of your money to the extent that you'll sell your collection to buy something else as you get older and your interests change (and they will). Had I retained my collection, I might have gotten back into the hobby sooner. So, keep collecting, but try and not blow everything you have on coins.

Separately, perhaps your grandma could be persuaded to let you keep a couple of key date or nicer dimes from the 20,000 as a legacy gift to remember him?