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Pillar of the Community
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I started collecting from my Dad's pocket change in the early 50's when I was 10 years old. I was allowed to save cents and a few dimes - put any Lincolns 1930s or earlier in coffee cans and started a Mercury album. Quote:
At first I had them Scotch-taped to a piece of cardboard. I had no books or guidance and when the reverse of the Lincoln cents changed in 1959 I thought it would be smart to collect the 1959 and not the 1958 - oops.. I have lots of 1959 Lincolns  Then I left the hobby for about 50 years and joined this forum in 2010. My collection is mostly early copper and bust half dollars. The next step is for me to decide what to do with my collection as I'm 74 years old. No one in the family is interested. I've read what others are planning but don't have an answer yet. Member ANA and EAC "You got to lose to know how to win". Dream On by Aerosmith |
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I thought it would be smart to collect the 1959 and not the 1958 - oops.. I have lots of 1959 Lincolns You are not the only one who made that mistake, although to be fair the premium for a '58 is only a few cents.  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Over 50 years...still remember silver in yur pocket...not too much mine but my dad's...mom had a change purse and always paid the grocery bill to the penny. I always looked for and found Mercury dimes and Buffalo nickels and put them along with my Lincolns in Whitman folders. Great times. KK |
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United States
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1958 when my teacher of history in school gave me a 1935 Buffalo nickel. |
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Quote: 1958 when my teacher of history in school gave me a 1935 Buffalo nickel. Very nice!  |
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United States
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I racked my brain, and feel confident stating that I started collecting coins in the late 1940's-- 1948 or 1949. My older brother, Alvin, used to fish in the pond and he would dig night crawler worms to use for bait. One evening he came home excited to have unearthed a small leather purse filled with pennies. I remember that the leather was so rotted that Al's fingers had punctured the purse and the pennies were loose in his hands and the clasp was turned green! He spread them out on the kitchen table. I begged for some of the pennies and it was decided that I would have to separate all the pennies by date. If Al found that I performed my charge acceptably, I would get one penny for each year found!
I do not recall how many pennies were found but I do know that the newest coin was a 1921 wheatie and they ran back through every year including many Indian heads. Al was generous and I eventually got the whole hoard shortly thereafter when he became more interested in girls than pennies.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In the mid through late 60's my dad would let me go through the change from the register in his barbershop each day. My job was to pick out all the silver that was there. My cherry picking began then.
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40 years this fall ago I started collecting them rather than just pulling old coins from change along with foreign stuff I found, and putting them in a cigar box. Got some 2x2s and a RedBook, within a year I was working at the local coin shop and a member of the ANA and local club. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Has to be a nebulous answer for my case. My grandfather gave me an Australian 1951 Jubilee coin, way back in 1951. Newly minted, bright and shiny. I thought it was amazing!  Dunno wot happened to it.  More seriously, my father gave me an 1826 British 1826 George 1V shilling, that was found in a large business safe that he was asked to crack. I still have it.  That was waaaaay back in 1958. Still in elementary school at the time. That was also the year I first started work. My father employed me. My dad let me keep all of my wages, but I spent the lot on building a coin collection. By age 21, I had built a collection of about 80 Roman coins, which included an aureus of Claudius, and a solidus of Constantius 11, and a complete Australian gold type set of 17 coins. Coin collecting and study are a way of life for me. I am a numismatic generalist, not a specialist My learning curve is still steep. That is why I am here in the CCF, still learning from the specialist expert opinion of others. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I have just been reading other posts in this thread.  There are some really old fossils, here in the CCF !  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Don't you be stirring up my layer of sediment kid !
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've just started couple moths ago (checking my change) about 3 weeks of hardcore CRHing
Cheers
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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24 years approximately. Where has the time gone?
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