How Long Have You Been Collecting Coins?

I still have the five silver dollars I got from the local bank redeeming Silver Certificates when barely a teen in the mid 1960's. That was more accumulating than collecting which began a few years after that with a Lincoln Cent folder.

I've been collecting on and off since I was a kid in the '80s. I was into stamps back then, too. My folks kept old coins from circulation, mainly silver. In 1968, my dad was stationed in Greece, and brought back some drachmas, which I still have. Back in the late '80s, my mom found nearly a whole roll of silver quarters!

Dad passed in 2010, and left me the coins. Last year, I found what I thought was an error coin in change, and started studying coins again. I then got my mom to bring me the family coins, and finally organized them all. I've added a lot more since then, and have almost finished the Lincoln set from his old wheats.

Hi,

My deceased uncle got me started collecting wheat pennies back in the mid 60s when I was just as a kid.

I then dropped off from having anything whatsoever to do with coins while pursuing my high school education, college education, and professional careers during 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Then back around FY 2003 I unexpectedly became involved with evaluating some coins for my girlfriend when her mother passed away and left her some coins.

The coin collecting fever then hit me real hard again at that time in 2003 and enticed me to look for my small 2' x 1' x 8" safe that had always housed my silver dollars and wheat pennies given to me by my grandmother in the 60s.

When I excitedly went to look for this safe in the basement of my mom's house back in 2003, I discovered that it had disappeared.

It was really a shock for my mom to now have to wonder what person over the last 35 years could have possibly 'borrowed' this safe; this person was obviously trusted enough to have access to her house since no robberies were ever reported or suspected.

So now I look at those offers from gold companies giving free safes with any qualifying purchase as waste of time and as a portrayal of a false sense of security.

The bottom line is that any worthwhile safe has to be too heavy and too big to easily move etc.

mdpmedia

I started collecting in 1971,when my Grandpa gave me a Whitman folder full of wheat cents! I collect all US coins now,but my favorite is still Lincoln cents. Thanks Grandpa.

Started just this last Christmas when my mom gave my sister and I each a gold coin...hook, line, and sinker! Only been a couple months though!