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Valued Member
South Africa
453 Posts |
Storage wars when jarrod and brandy got all those coins from the safe, surfed the net and the first coin I saw was a ASE fell in love with it! Searched south africa for dealers and well from there |
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Canada
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'99/'00 Canadian quarters started it when I was 6 then going back to find the other quarters, then all the quarters the R.C.M. started pumping out. I since moved on to copper coins.
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United States
2368 Posts |
My grandfather was a coin collector and he helped me fill my State Quarter folder from CRH when I was in elementary school. Good times. |
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Canada
3692 Posts |
My dad first started telling me about steel Wheaties and mintmarks when I was younger. The forum just expanded my knowledge of what I was doing exactly.
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United States
629 Posts |
I remember my family visiting cousins in Ottawa in the early 60's. We were from the states. My father was a stamp collector and I think that my uncle made the suggestion to go to the coin show since the interests were somewhat similar. That I believe that put the bug in me to collect although I did nothing about it until the late 60's when I joined a coin club with a group from high school. Both of my parents worked at a bank after WWII and did take some dollars and shinplasters that were brought to the bank, which I was able to get to start the collection. Didn't pick it up again for about 20 years after that, once my discretionary income increased along with my coin knowledge.
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Puerto Rico
778 Posts |
My grandmother gave me 2 Indian cents, 5 world coins and one 1953 $2 USN when I was 9 years old and I have been hooked with coins and paper money since then.  |
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Canada
220 Posts |
When I was in grade 9 I lost a book from the school library. I could not find it so I ended up buying it. I can't remember how much the book was but the librarian gave me a nickel 50 cent piece for change. This sparked my interest but the flood gates opened when the 1992 provincial 25 cent series was issued the next spring....hooked for life now!
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Germany
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When I worked in the US the State Quarter program was going, I also got a Buffalo nickel and loads of pennies. Then I took these back without too much interest and moved to Spain just before the Euro came in, so I collected the old peseta coins. Then When I when home I looked at getting an album and by the time the Euro came along I was hooked and then had to go get coins from my own country. Travelling also helps. I've just been around southern Africa and got loads of coins from the 7 countries I visited, I've chalked up 51 foreign countries now, lives in 5 of them, and will probably be in some country or another soon, depending on if I stay in this hot place Thailand for too long (and not finding any commemorative 10 baht coins)! |
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United States
1132 Posts |
There is nothing like holding a 150+ year old coin in your hand, feeling the nicks & letting your mind take you back to the Wild West. Stage coaches, six-shooters, brothels, barrels of whiskey freshly imported from Kentucky. You never know what exactly the coin has bought in the days gone by, but it's fun to think about.
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United States
234 Posts |
I agree with CopperCastle- I love the history of it!
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United States
524 Posts |
It was a gift my father gave to me that he never knew about. He passed away when I was 15 and soon after my mother brought in a handful of coins he had stashed away. Couple of Morgans,Walkers Standing Liberty quarters. That was all it took. Been collecting for over 30 years now. |
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United Kingdom
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Boomer - a lighthouse was instrumental in my starting to collect coins too! When I was at Primary School, our teacher once told us that some pennies had lighthouses on them and others didn't. I then started looking at pennies and got interested in the different dates and the various kings and queens. Before 1971 you could still find British pennies back to 1860 in change. When I found an 1874 penny with both a lighthouse AND a ship, I was hooked! I haven't stopped since! Mind you, lots of other people must have started collecting around the same time as me, when the UK was about to go decimal. They may have sold their collections or still have them stashed away somewhere. I wonder how many of them are still out there collecting?
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