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United States
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M 25-35, got interested when my Dad would give me the coins from his travels around the world. Really got started with State Quarters, which spread to Wheat Cents, and from there turned into an infection of hoarding anything shiny like a squirrel. |
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United States
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M (15-25) (16) one day my dad got an 1861 IHC in change at the gas station, it simply got me hooked |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I am 66 years young. I took my first interest in coins at 6 years old.
At age 29, I sold an extensive collection of Australian key date pre decimal silver and bronze coins, a complete type set of 17 Australian gold coins, and about 120 ancient coins which included 2 gold aureii and a gold solidus. They paid for 1/3 of the value of our first house. That collection would have been worth well over $100,000 in today's money.
I have never had to pay rent in my life, thanks to coin collecting.
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10/15/2012 8:55 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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M 40-45
i demolish houses for a living and come across random coins fairly often (1-100 years old from all over the world). just kept everything in a jar for years and never thought much of it. then I found a back door mint job coin in change, sold it for $750, and it kick started the habit.
i used the $$$ to replace all the coins that were left to me by my grandpa that I had sold off as a kid to buy cigarettes and beer.
i collect canadian circulation stuff and working hard on a world coin type set, a little over 2,000 coins from nearly 200 countries.
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United States
1200 Posts |
M.....65+..... got interested and started after retiring and having more unoccupied free time than I could have ever imagined before retiring. Started in with coin roll hunting for silvers, which appears to be a lost cause and a waste of time and energy where I live. I'm about ready to branch out into some other coin-based thing, but I don't know what just yet. Any/all suggestions on that one would be greatly appreciated. I think I'm in that very early, mostly clueless "still stumbling around in the dark" phase of the evolution of one's coin collecting hobby pursuits.
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Canada
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M 45-55 started when I was around 10 or so
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United Kingdom
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M 15-25, [17]. I started over a decade ago, when my uncle gave me a commemorative coin and gave a little speech on the fact that, unlike other things, no matter how long I keep that coin, it will never be worth less than face. So I would filter commemoratives out of change, I got a little album when I was 9, and filled it up. I'm starting to branch out, trading off the stuff I got when I was young to diversify it all - I now have ancient, medieval and modern world coins.
I suppose my crowning achievement was getting a £5 coin out of circulation. God bless M&S.
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United States
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Valued Member
Australia
192 Posts |
M, 15-25, I started my collection when I was maybe 7 or 8 years old when I saw my grandparents had a large jar full of coins from their holidays. I asked them if I could have it and they said yes. Over the years, I received random coins and notes from various people we knew. It wasn't until early this year that I really got into the collecting of banknotes. I've attended various shows, bought online, inherited and now my collection stands at about 101 notes. Edited by Ark
10/16/2012 04:01 am
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Valued Member
United States
255 Posts |
F 50 Started collecting 5 years ago when a friend sold me his wife's collection ( pulled from circ) at face value. I offered to pay then current silver price but he wouldn't accept it. Then silver started to increase so I started collecting as much as I could find for investing. But I caught the bug and have been collecting mainly American coins. I thought coin collecting would be so boring but nothing matches (well, few things!) that feeling of getting a little gem when I just paid for spot.
Great thread! Fun to read about others and realize so many are so young! Can't imagine the collections some of you will have when you reach my age!
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United States
255 Posts |
Also, so very grateful to have found CCF as none of my friends are collectors nor are they interested! It's one of the things I look forward to daily is checking out the forum and being happy for people when they finish an album, get a coin they've been waiting for or are excited about their first coin in a new series.
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Valued Member
United States
344 Posts |
M: 35-45.
I had a fascination with coins for as long as I remember. As young kids at the end of our visits to grandma, she would break out the coins. She worked at a coffee shop and would save all the "weird" coins for us. Lots of Ikes, Kennedys, and Franklins and I spent every one of them. What I would do for some of those now!
In my teens I would save things I found from circulation. Some good stuff, like silver certificates, silver coins and others which I thought may one day be valuable but really weren't - rolls of bicentennial quarters, 2 dollar bills, etc. I had my parents put them in the family safe. After my mother passed, I went to check the safe for my collection. Everything was gone. Not quiet sure who absconded with them - although I have my suspensions.
Since that time, I saved copper pennies and any other "old" coins I found in circulation. It has only been in the last year that I have seriously started collection. It wasn't until recently I learned that the "old" nickel with the mint mark in a "funny" place was a silver nickel. Collect and learn one day at a time, one coin at a time.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
917 Posts |
M, 25-35, Got started when my great great grandma gave me a bunch of coins and then over the years my grandpa (her son) would take me to a coin shop and let me pick out a couple Indian Head cents for 1.25 a piece. |
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Valued Member
United States
461 Posts |
Male, 30 years young (just turned 30 last week and still struggling with it!), my grandfather started the bug almost 20 years ago.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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M, 35-45. I got a small stash of mostly junk silver from my grandpa when I was a little kid, and have kept that stash with me. I love the huge variety available and wondering what stories the coins could tell. Not so mention it satisfies my need to collect.
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