Coin Collecting Beginning.

Sorry if the two topics seemed similar. the first one was your motivation, and this one is who got you interested in coins to begin with. I meant for them to be two different questions. Sorry about that...

My older sister Linda got me started in coin collecting. She got started by our great-grandparents who lived on a farm in Ohio. When she came to visit they gave her some Liberty Seated coins they had saved for many years. I got infected when she came back home to California with them and showed them off. Boy was I jealous! She also bought back a bunch of 2x2s and we started saving the best looking Lincoln cents we could find.

Later a friend of the family came to visit and gave me a large silver coin from the Netherlands. Then my Dad got me a Harris Ambassador stamp album and a Minkus grab bag of world stamps to soak. Pretty soon I was collecting just about everything.

I started riding my Schwinn Stingray a few miles from home to visit a coin and stamp shop in Granada Hills. I remember they had a Gumball Machine with coins in plastic bubbles which drove me nuts trying to get the good stuff out of it. Kids in those days could wander all over the place and no one thought much of it. Good times.

My favorite US coin is a 1798 Bust dollar I was crazy enough to purchase about five years ago.

I kinda got myself interested into collecting, but I would say that my mom and dad were both an influence (my mom saved a 1911 Barber dime, which I found and this got me interested) and my dad would take me to coin shops and such. He also collected when he was younger, but wasn't that serious, it was mainly coins he would get in change.

My favorite series would be Trade dollars and Shield nickels. Trade dollars cost way too much for me, so it's Shield nickels for me. I also like 3CN, but I lean more towards Shield nickels.

My mother used to say that I was saving coins in a sock even when I was a toddler, that I loved money. Of course I don't remember that. But when my father came back from Oz and Asia was the nucleus of my collection. He literally gave me a bag of coins that must have weighed a couple of pounds.

I got into collecting Morgans about a year ago. My younger brother started collecting and got me interested in them. They are by far the coolest coin ever made. I always wonder if one of them that I have was used in a poker game in Tombstone, or paid for a shot of whiskey for Jessee James.