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I started collecting as an 8th grader in CT, where I still live. I collected a variety of things, including Lincoln and Indian cents and all denominations of silver coins. I also had (still have) some proof sets and other odds and ends that someone gave to my father in payment of a debt. These days I'm focused on building a date set of PCGS $20 St Gaudens and acquiring key dates of other series. My most exciting recent purchases are a 1909-s VDB Lincoln PCGS MS-66RD and a 1916-D Mercury PCGS MS-65FB. It would have been a dream-come-true to own these in any condition when I was a kid! |
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My most exciting recent purchases are a 1909-s VDB Lincoln PCGS MS-66RD and a 1916-D Mercury PCGS MS-65FB
 Come on! By just listing those you HAVE to provide pictures! |
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United States
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I started collecting in Great Falls MT. I collected Lincoln cents in Whitman folders for a coin collecting merit badge for cub scouts. Started in about 1964 or 65. I never completed the set, I sold the set when I was 18. I now collect Proof sets, Mint sets, raw and graded ASE's, Silver and Gold bullion at close to melt value. I now live in MI, however I'll return back to Big Sky Country (MT) in about 11 years. Edited by lknerr
08/27/2007 8:23 pm
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Nine years old in Houston Texas in 1956. Still could find old Lincolns, worn Buffalos, SL Quarters and SL Halves. My Mother got us started by buying Whitman folders for my brother and sister and me, and than we would compete to fill them, often trading and wheeling and dealing after supper. great fun. Of course we all sold our collections to her as teenagers when we needed cash. She kept them all and gave them back to me about four years ago along with her stuff that included a large number of GSA Morgans, inlcuding three scarce dates and some other cool stuff. That got me rehooked on coin collecting at the age of 56 and retired.
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grew up in a small town in upstate NY...back in the 50's and 60's Dad would bring home rolls of coins from the bank and we would tear off stamps from envelopes. Life was a lot simpler then..no video games..no crime...the doors were always left unlocked! All the collections were put away for 35 years..recently I tried to get my kids interested in collecting...that lasted about two months...computers and videos have dominated kids free time these days...so Dad(me) got back into collecting and now you can find me sitting at the computer visiting coin and stamp sites...when my kids let me get online!
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08/27/2007 9:49 pm
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United States
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I started saving coins in 1970 or 1980 something. I would save all my dollar coins, halfs, two dollars bills or any old wheats, nickels, silver coins I would get in change. I would buy proof sets sometimes over the years.
I never bought an album or foldor intill 2007. This year I built my first coin set . 1938 thru 2007 nickel book was my first set to build at 36 years old. I amazed it took over 20 years to build my nickel book.
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Wow, my answer is the most popular.
What do I win?
(Just kidding.)
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Pictures are included in my posts in the Coin Photography section of the forum.
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United States
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The year was 1978, I was 11 years old and wandering the playground during recess when I noticed a dime in the street. So I went out in the street and picked it up. Got in trouble for going into the road by the school monitor, but it was worth it. It was a 1900 Barber dime. I believe it was G4, but the surfaces were nice. Later my dad gave a bunch of coins that he found in old furniture. He was a garbage man and he would find old coins in the bottom of old furniture. He added another Barber dime - 1898 O in VG and a slew of Franklin and Walker halves as well as some silver Washingtons and Roosies. Later I found an old Shield nickel in my change. I could only make out the 188?. The last digit was rounded on the bottom but you couldn't see the rest of the numeral. I always hoped it would be an elusive 1880, but it was probably just an 1883. Later my mom started a subscription to Littleton where I got some Buffalo nickels and wheat cents. It didn't last long though as she got tired of them sending things all the time and they didn't make much money, so my collecting got put on hold until 1991. I basically built my collection up from roll finds until then. I loved the good old days. |
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United States
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I know this topic is old, but I am a new member so it is new to me. I grew up in the city of Detroit and had a paper route for the Detroit News around the late 80s. A lady on my route who I had to constantly hound for my weekly payment must have been short US money one day, because she added a French 1916 50 Centimes and a 1984 $100 Peso Mexican coin. I guess it was supposed to fool me as a Dime and a thick golded quarter. Anyway, still in elementary school I thought I just one the lottery. $100 gold coin right? Either way it sparked my interest in coins. I was a big collector (Cards, Comics etc.) The next week I went to my local Card and coin shop and bought a Steel Penny for $.25 and I was hooked. I still have my Whitman Lincoln folder from that time, still not complete with rips and tape and all. I am not as serious of a collector as some. I don't own white gloves or buy based on condition. But I do still enjoy filling my folders. I have in-progress Mercury dime, Buffalo nickel, Ben Franklin halves. I have also started the State qtr and President dollar folders for my 1 and 2 year old daughters, hoping they may share my passion one day. As a side note I decided to concentrate on my US collection, so I just listed my Long held french coin on ebay. Maybe I will sell it for a dollar or so and make a 900% profit from my paper route  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Still in NJ have been forever. Started with Lincolns and Jeff's. Whitman boards of course. The boards and the coins went by the wayside. Still collecting though.
Tony
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Valued Member
United States
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At the age of 10,I started collecting Lincoln cents,
my first attempt was by taping them to a piece of cardboard.
I still have some of the glue encrusted pennies.
I searched threw my fathers pockets when he came home from work
and drove him and everybody else crazy with my quest.
Fond memories of childhood.
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United States
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I'm new here (see my introduction on the "Welcome" forum) and I'm finding all the stories in this thread interesting. My collecting began as a child in the early 60s when my mother made a Christmas gift to me of a dozen Barber quarters and a Dansco album to put them in. She had gotten the coins from my grandmother, who had apparently stashed them away in her sock drawer during the depression "for a rainy day." My mother caught her spending them on notions at the dime store and immediately stopped her and bought all the ones she had left. I was fascinated with those strange, yet oddly familiar, coins and I badly wanted to fill the gaps in that album. Of course, being a child with no income, this goal was well beyond my means. Instead, I focused on Washingtons, which were readily available in change. Now an adult, I still have that Dansco and the desire to finish it. Greg |
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United States
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When I was 9 my parents gave me and my siblings penny albums and a handful of pennies for Christmas one year. That was it for me and I've collected pennies ever since. I've just recently started collecting other denominations.
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Valued Member
United States
253 Posts |
my uncle gave me a whitman folder for pennies for Christmas when I was 8. I took it to cub scouts and it turned out my leader was into Morgan dollars. he gave me a merc dime and ive been hooked. I lost a near complete set of morgans in au and bu a set of Walker halves in vf-ef and a near complete set of mercs in a house fire. took a while but I got back in the game. working on a set of mercs now. Ah that 16-d |
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