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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm a bit opposite. For example someone I knew once gave me a can of beer he had in his refrigerator for a long, long time. Really odd since it was a half gallon can. Naturally I opened it and tried it out. Was really bad. Bought an old oil type lamp. Really old. So naturally filled it with lamp oil and lit it. WAS almost new but not after I messed it up. Found an antique sewing machine table at a flea market. Made it into a bench grinder. Except for coins, guns, knives and cars, just not a fan of old stuff.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Moderator
 United States
188770 Posts |
Correct.  A small remnant from my University days. |
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Valued Member
 United States
57 Posts |
Yeah I guess I got lucky! I found that 1924-D about 2 weeks into my whole 3 months of coin collecting  Gonna go get some rolls tonight! |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2781 Posts |
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And guess what? I too found such a coin. Only mine was a $3 one. I also found and used many $3 bills you gotta think outside the good old USA believe it or not other denominations do exist   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1118 Posts |
Anyone have any Billy Beer?  |
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Moderator
United States
188770 Posts |
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you gotta think outside the good old USA
believe it or not other denominations do exist I do hope will catch up with you (and the rest of the world) eventually. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8137 Posts |
I started by earning the coin collecting merit badge in boy scouts.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2850 Posts |
From my grandfather. Moved over to paper money after finding his book of bills after he passed away years back and fell in love with all things paper. I had no clue he did anything with paper money because my assumption was he was always a coin guy.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1192 Posts |
Won my first coin at 9 year olds at a redemption arcade. 1900 V nickel. :). Paid like 300 tickets for it. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
548 Posts |
Like most people who have traveled abroad I accumulated coins from various countries as I grew up. You could say that was how I got started.
In 2011 I started taking it seriously and began buying coins specifically for a collection.
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New Member
Indonesia
8 Posts |
I started my coin collection without any thought about collecting, just bumping into lots of thousand old coins. Have a money to spend and bought it. I forget about the coins for many years until the seller ask about the coins condition. I check out the coins and learn something that spark my interest me. Somehow I feel addicted with it and want to know more and more about the history and the coins. I think its became a hobby, never regreted with the lots I bought.
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Valued Member
United States
134 Posts |
My dad always took me with him to the coin shop on Fridays when he got off work. He got me hooked on coins at a very young age and he still collects, buys, and sells to this day. He will be 82 years old on Halloween. I also remember being impressed with a bracelet of Swedish coins that my grandmother brought back from a trip to visit family there in 1959. I inherited that coin bracelet and enjoy the fond memories associated with it. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Paper boy in 1955.
At that time the weekly cost was often paid partially with cents.
So I started a Lincoln set.
I found two 1909 Lincolns right out of circulation.
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