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 Posted 08/28/2015  8:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bob Levi to your friends list
I'm going on seriously collecting for a few years now, but was putting wheaties aside for ten years prior. Always saved old stuff only the last few years I have been putting them in flips.
Since then I have a nice collection growing.... And not just sitting in a jar.
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 Posted 08/29/2015  7:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add razorblaydejr to your friends list
I put 1-5, but that's my second time around. I collected when I was younger and then quit for 15 years before I came back to it.
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 Posted 08/29/2015  7:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add McNickel to your friends list
I've been pulling old/interesting coins out of my change since 1967 but didn't buy my first coin until 1990.
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 Posted 08/29/2015  8:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T-BOP to your friends list
Total 52 years. but took a long break some where in the middle , you know ;house,
kids, work, and other of life's essentials.
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 Posted 08/29/2015  8:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add baldy to your friends list
I said 5-10 years, but only seriously for the past few. Before that I was too young to know what was good and what wasn't.
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 Posted 08/29/2015  8:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CopperCastle to your friends list
I "collected" any unusual coins as I found (or my father gave me) as a kid, but got serious about 12 years ago. When I say "serious" I mean spending enough on a single example that people's mouths hang open when they say "what coin in this book cost the most?"
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 Posted 08/29/2015  10:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SaintRidley to your friends list
About 15 years, with a small gap in terms of active collecting toward the end of high school and beginning of college dur to circumstances.
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 Posted 08/30/2015  10:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
Possibly should have had the years more like 0 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 - 20, 21 - 40, 41 - 60, 61 - 100, 101 - 150, etc.
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 Posted 08/30/2015  2:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KevinH to your friends list
I was born in 1966, and have been collecting off and on since my parents started giving me Ikes in 1972 for chores!

So guess what I NOW give my own 11 year old for doing chores, etc? Even more Ikes, though she sometimes prefers Sacs and NAs.

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08/30/2015 2:21 pm
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 Posted 08/30/2015  2:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KevinH to your friends list
Shouldn't there be a 6th category for over 20 years called something like: ". and you rotten kids stay off my lawn!"
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 Posted 08/31/2015  07:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add vermilk to your friends list
I agree Carl, I should have added more options. Not sure 101-150 would have covered it.

LoL - KevinH.
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 Posted 08/31/2015  08:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Garoyn to your friends list

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since my parents started giving me Ikes in 1972 for chores


I gave my kids Ikes under their pillows from the Tooth Fairy in exchange for lost teeth. The itch didn't grab them, though (at least not yet).
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 Posted 08/31/2015  09:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add srs77 to your friends list
stay with it Garoyn.. Gave two of my God Children each a silver dollar and they are now avid collectors at 12 years old...
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 Posted 08/31/2015  10:12 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fioti to your friends list


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 Posted 08/31/2015  11:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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since my parents started giving me Ikes in 1972 for chores
Your parents rock!
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