Our Coin Collecting Beginning

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

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

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