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Belgium
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as child at the end of the 50's,but seriously at the end of the 60's.albert
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United States
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About six years now. Started in 2009 when I had a science teacher who enjoyed talking about investing in silver. A couple of purchases later, I was hooked.
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United States
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I inherited part of my grandfather's coins early this year but only in the last few weeks have I really become interested, thanks mostly to the great people on this forum. |
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United States
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I started as a 9 year old sometime around 1992 or 1993. Mostly with just random modern European coins that my aunt brought back from her world travels (she is a retired USN nurse and a frequent cruise traveler). Also some older US and world coins that my grandparents gave me from a jar they had (my avatar pic--1881 Haiti 1 Gourde--came from this bunch). It never evolved into anything very organized, and was always little more than a mass of foreign coins in 2x2s. I finally lost interest around 2000, and went years without so much as looking at it.
Got back into collecting two summers ago when my father-in-law showed me some silver dollars he had. Been hooked back on ever since, although now I have a better collecting focus and everything is more properly organized. And most of the miscellaneous foreign stuff sits in a junk jar.
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Valued Member
United States
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I started as a kid in the mid 80's. I would go through rolls and Bags of penny's with my Dad. We would sort them by year into glass Baby Food jars. Also got world coins from my Grandmother as she traveled to other countries. She never converted back here change she would just give it to us kids. Got into it more when the State Quarters came out. Now I just can't get enough. |
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United States
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Interesting thread. 1957. I started with Buffalo nickels but then sold my collection in 1968 to concentrate on young women. I still watched pocket change and thought about coins but didn't resume collecting until 1972. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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I started in 1965 as a paperboy when I starting receiving all these cool looking coins from my customers. Still remember all the old Lincoln's Indian heads buffalo's SLQs Walking halves even silver dollars at that time. It was fun and cheap to collect as most of my coins had come straight out of circulation. Ahh the memories |
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United States
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I started in either late 1971 or early 1972 when I was 12 years old. I was home sick from school one and was reading the comics in bed. I came across a famous comic book ad for the 1804 dollar, headlined "The 1804 dollar--19,500 minted, only five known! Where are the others?" It talked about how much money these things went for, and how to start the hobby of coin collecting. I had seen it many times before, but at this moment it made me excited, because I knew we had a small stash of family heirloom coins my parents had recently revealed, and I felt for sure there must be an 1804 in there. Well, there wasn't, but just looking through this wonderful assortment of old coins really whet my whistle. We also had a copy of the Red Book, so I delighted in looking up each coin and reading about the different designs and values. That's when I became hooked. (Funnily enough, right after I began collecting, the 1972 double-die cent became known, and I quite naturally began checking every cent I got. But I never found one.) Edited by jpsned
08/19/2015 2:09 pm
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United Kingdom
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I started in around 1985... my father used to collect cash from his customers and any oddities that turned up were thrown my way. Also around that time I bought a tin of old pennies from a boy at school with my birthday money.
I was told of a collection of coins my grandfather had put together in the war, it was missing but when it came to light (buried in a box under the stairs after we had moved houses) that was sent my way too.
As a boy, even though decimalisation had occurred, you could still dig old shillings out of your change, florins too... and I tried to make a date collection before these were all withdrawn for the newer smaller coinage.
I have travelled extensively now, and whenever I have done I have collected what I could so I have quite a large collection of inexpensive coins and banknotes but also I have invested a bit in some rarer items, bullion coins, and more recently ancient coins. The ancients are great, but require deep pockets when you lust after archaic Greek silver.
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United States
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Thought I posted on this thread.. maybe was a different one. I started in 5th grade when our teacher gave us all State Quarter folders to fill out at the end of the year. That was 2003. Unfortunately not sure what happened to that folder it had some nice ones in it... but the real collecting didn't awaken until a few years ago when my mom and I were "bankers" at our church VBS and they had penny offerings where she and I would look through the rolls and find any wheats for her album. Then went to college and started with the Lunar series II and JFK half dollars and on from there until now. Been a good and very educational (sometimes unfortunately) 4 years.  |
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United States
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I have been collecting off and on since I was 6 years old so I have been at it for almost 13 years I have a completed 1999-2009 P&D States and Territory Quarter Set also A National Park P&D Quarter set 2010 Until the last released ATB Quarter also I have 40 rolls of Wheat penny's also a roll of Buffalo nickles. Edited by icollectoldmoney
08/19/2015 7:24 pm
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