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Valued Member
United States
70 Posts |
Yes! I was at a hobby shop with my son, and I saw a whitman P&D Statehood Quarter album with no price sitting by itself. I originally didn't think anything of it. But then I passed it by again, and grabbed it out of curiosity to get a price check. The clerk couldn't find a price for it, so he referenced a book and said $5.95. So I said, I'll take it. Later to find out that it was worth about $20 more than what I got it for. So I filled it, caught the coin bug, and have been spending, ahem...I mean collecting ever since ;) -LTB |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
716 Posts |
Yes, It got me into this hobby. First I noticed the new coin in change in 1999 then I found an ad from Littleton of their coin folder so I bought the folder and start fill the holes yearly. A couple years ago, I was thinking maybe I should get all the quarters pre-1999. So I went through my change and I found all years up to 1964 (only one in my bucket). I went to work and told my co-worker (who happened to be a coin-collector) about my finding and asked why I could't find any older than 64. He told me all about the silver stuff and year of 1964 and how lucky that I could even find one in my own change bucket. He gave me a thorough and knowledgable introduction of coin-collecting and about CRH as one way to collect coins! So I decided to collect all the silver Washington quarters (a few missing), then moved to SLQ (AU+ set,a lot missing), then moved to JFK(two sets from CRH, one Dansco with proof set only 3 modern silver proofs missing), then to Lincohn cent (need a lots of wheats), then to IKE (completed set; 35 coins including 1972 3 types, non-silver all from CRH), then to Franklin half (circulated set with 3 missing, all from CRH), Walker half (a lot of missing), and now working on mainly Dansco 7070, Panama half, World 38-mm silver round; I hope to finish Jefferson nickel set(I've found 38D and 39D, two out of the five toughest)and Franklin half (51,55,and 56) from circulation this year. Oh, did I mention that my ADHD is getting worse and worse since collecting coins? Edited by Yinzi50
01/07/2010 05:13 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1082 Posts |
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I started as a basic hoarder when I was younger ... anything that was silver... Same here, although I was somewhat organized from the start, because I knew about Whitman folders already. I was a stamp collector first (and still am), and knew about Whitmans from my visits to my local Stamp & Coin, although then all I could really afford to collect was U.S. and Canadian pennies, nickels, and dimes. Back then ('68), though, Wheaties were plentiful (even in Canada) as were George VI's coins and silver Canadian dimes and quarters. Naturally, over time I branched out in my coin and stamp collecting, and even picked up a couple of other collecting interests as well. Eventually, my family came to live in a border town, our house easily within walking distance of it, and from 1977 to 1996, getting US coin was easy. By the time the State Quarter program was announced, I had moved to Winnipeg, which is approximately 2 hours from the border, so this made it a little tougher to pick them out when they were released, and most of them I would pick up by buying rolls whenever I had the chance to be on the US side, although I could have bought them from dealers here for double face (no, thank you). To me, the State Quarters were just another series to pick up, but since Canada had already experimented with quarter sets (1992), it wasn't really noteworthy or anything to me. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4868 Posts |
No, I have been collecting on and off since I was 13, (now 33). I remember filling up a blue Whitman folder of dimes. Later on I realized that the Whitman holders don't really offer protection (getting finger prints while pressing them in) then I went to 2x2 holders.
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Valued Member
United States
371 Posts |
Not Really, The State Quarters Didn't Get My Attention. It was when I saw my Grandparents' Coin Collections from over the years that inspired me to start. |
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Valued Member
United States
419 Posts |
No, I'm not really interested in them.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
No, I've been collecting continously since 1972. I was glad to see them change the design of the quarter but the designs were in general so poor that I;m happier and happier that by the time they came out I was mainly collecting late 18th and early 19th century material. I have a P&D set collected from circulation and that's all I'm interested in.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2541 Posts |
I had a collection of various European and Asian coins that my dad had given me (circulating pocket change, nothing of much monetary value), but my wife (girlfriend at the time) got me a State Quarters map. That got me more interested but I never really followed it up. It was the 1929 quarter eagle my father in law gave me as a wedding gift that really got me into it though. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1116 Posts |
i started collecting in 1999 when they first came out my grandfather had me looking for them for him that got me interested then he showed me his foreign coins and I was hooked. the coin I chose to start collecting other then the State Quarters was the 1932-1964 silver quarters I think they are beautiful and under valued in high grades. now I just collect pretty much everything. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
I would have to say no....generally.....but a "re-ignition" for the hobby....yes. I began as a little boy mostly because of my Grandfather and my Dad. Both were "metal detector guys" too. And arrowheads and stuff. I was guilty of being "in & out" of the hobby for most of my life.....then the 50 State Qtrs. kind of lit a fire under me. And late in 2006 I discovered the United States Mint website....that certainly geared up my interest in collecting "Ultra Moderns".....new gold....commem's...etc. etc. And, though I have my "O.C.D." runs with coins for a few weeks at a time.....it has "stuck" for the last several years....and there ain't no lookin' back now ! ....  I think any really knowledgeable collector with an extensive collection HAS to be obsessive compulsive about it ! Whether you're an NBA player....a Poker player....a Nascar driver...or a golfer.....whatever......the most succesful ones, I GUARANTEE YOU, probably would fit a textbook and clinical definition of "O.C.D." It's only a "harmful" disorder if it interferes with your "functionality in life" right ? ...  So.....how many "admit to" or "have been accused of" being O.C.D. with their coins ? ....hummmm ?Oh....sorry for the "topic hijack" ! ..  (my fian'cee recently accused me of this and it hurt my feelings !) ...  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2520 Posts |
No! Been collecting since 1972. They don't interest me but have to include them in my set for completeness.
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Valued Member
United States
111 Posts |
No, but it helped get one of my kids interested in searching/collecting.
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Valued Member
United States
245 Posts |
I have been collecting coins for 50+ years and seriously for the last 30 and I thought the State Quarter set was a joke when it first came out. I warmed to it later on and I now have the whole set and both the clad and silver proof coins. My Washington quarter collection is now current from 1932 to present. |
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Valued Member
United States
58 Posts |
I have always like collecting, but in my younger days I didn't have the cash. The State Quarter program did help me to boost my interest again, so I started get rid of baseball cards, comics etc. to free up money to buy coins. |
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
no no no no no. The State Quarters are, I'm sorry to say, a government fraud. |
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