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Previously Banned Member
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How long have you been coin collecting? What did you first collect? It started nearly 42 years ago for me ... I began by collecting all the Canada Centennial (1867-1967) in 1967 ... 1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cent, 50 cents and $1.00 coins .... I also collected the one dollar notes. I was a teenager and interested in Canadian history. I was fascinated to be part of the 100th anniversary celebrations. I really wanted the 1967 Royal Canadian Mint specimen set with the $20 gold coin but I could not afford that set because the issue price was $40.00 per set and it now sells between $800 and $1000 depending on the price of gold. Eventually, my parents did buy me the 1967 Royal Canadian Mint proof-like set with the silver medallion with an issue price @ $12.00 per set. I still have that set as I received it from the mint. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I had an interest in coins from about 5 years old.
Started collecting Australian pennies from about 14.
Acquired my first ancient, a silver denarius of Antoninus Pius VF, at 18, paid $4.50 for it.
My first Canadian was a gold $20 Centennial when I was about 25.
My latest Canadian acquisition is a gold $10, 1913, not too long ago, but I do have a complete type set of Canadian nickel nickels, up to 1967, with an Unc. tombac beaver. They are part of a collection, ancient to modern, of about 3,500 coins that has been put together from age 14, over about 50 years.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10284 Posts |
Probably on a serious level for 35 or so years. Wish I had some of the coins I sold when I bought them back then but there were some hard times in between. Sold off 1875 CC Twenty Cent pc. Seated and Bust half dollars, high grade Barbers, High grade half and large cents, Gem BU red Indians, My first Lincoln Cent set and my Large and fractional currency folder are long gone. Glad I kept on my Jefferson's all that time which seem to have saved me on a couple occasions from quitting coins all together. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
585 Posts |
Not long enough  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1660 Posts |
Since 1964, when I was 8 and started asking for my 50 cent allowance in silver coins only, please  I bought my first coins that year off a display at Kent's Dry Cleaner's in Kennebunk where I learned about about Whitman albums and paying attention to my pocket change. Later on I found out my Dad had been collecting for years, and I remember getting lost in his albums and his magical blue book that had all the coins listed in it!Off and on over the years, when time and economy allowed, collecting and learning about coins has been an enjoyable family pastime. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
9104 Posts |
54 years, as the crow flies. It was a way of learning numbers...
Started when Lincolns weren't made of scrap.
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Valued Member
United States
97 Posts |
Still have my first Lincoln set from 1941 t0 1961 - change from my paper route. Collecting since 1961 with a number of decades off. Now into it big time, just like when I was a kid.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1554 Posts |
Collecting seriously since 1968. Man, you could get Great deals then. Wish I had money, lots of it, back when I started getting serious!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
2180 Posts |
Since 1999, but I've only got serious about it in the last year or so.
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Valued Member
United States
62 Posts |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
Wednesday will mark 40 years as a collector. My interest in coins goes back 6 years before that.
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Moderator
 United States
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I am not sure. What does my signature say?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1610 Posts |
About 6-7 years, my dad started me when he gave me about 150 coins from his collection.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
570 Posts |
15 years next month |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
524 Posts |
About 28 years now. Didn't do much in my 20s like most people I had other interest but a few years ago I really started using my excess cash for good.
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New Member
United States
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Hello, I just recently started getting serious about coin collecting. I am currently making books of the national parks quarters and building a 1964 to present Kennedy half in a Dansco album. |
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Posted 01/29/2012 7:48 pm
