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Valued Member
Canada
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collection since I was a kid still doing it for the fun of it,
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Moderator
 United States
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All I know is ... When I grow up I am going to be a serious collector. I hope I never take this hobby too seriously.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I started collecting after my first year of college. My father gave me a bucket of coins to help pay for my books... ended up seeing some SBA and Ike's in there and caught the bug. I think I was around 19 |
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Valued Member
Canada
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I started collecting as a kid, probably around 10 or so. My grandfather on my mothers side was a collector and also a rural delivery driver for Canada Post, so he always had an inside track on new coins, uncirculated sets, etc. I started collecting after admiring his collection, of which I ended up with a portion of a few years later.
I Collected off and on until I was about 16, at which point it fell by the wayside. I'm 28 now, and after purchasing a new home fell out of my other hobbies, at which point something clicked and I dove right back into coins, getting my old collection out and starting to add to it, learning about pieces I had but didn't know anything about, and going full out documenting everything and finding what I'd like to focus my efforts on.
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Valued Member
Canada
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at which point something clicked and I dove right back into coins I can relate to the statement above. My father was a world coin and stamp guy. I collected world coins donated from friends and family who travel all over the world, and what I can find from my parents during my early teens. Then the period of university studies and starting into my career; coin collecting was not in my mind. Then a trigger point at the local flea market in my mid 30s, I saw a coin seller. I dove right back in. Coin shows, LCS, antique shows, flea markets, then that discovery of ebay. Taking a break from coin collecting before diving back in.  Edited by the_sifu
06/21/2016 11:56 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
71 Posts |
Glad to see I'm not the only one who followed that path. Thanks The Sifu!
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New Member
United States
22 Posts |
Collected since I was 9 (on and off), 26 years old.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
592 Posts |
27 years old, started when I was 11. Had to take a bit of a break between the ages of 16 and 22 due to lack of ability to fund the hobby, but I continued to admire the collection during that time.
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07/15/2016 11:00 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2925 Posts |
Started when I was 5... 44 years later am still at it...
CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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New Member
United States
13 Posts |
I started collecting around age 7 for a few years and am currently 29. I haven't seriously collected since then, but I might be getting interested again.
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Valued Member
United States
71 Posts |
I started collecting around 4 or 5 years old, and I'll be 17 in oct. My best friend thinks it's stupid, but I've been obsessed with them ever since my mom gave me a 1976 Mardis Gras dabloon her dad gave to her.
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