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Hello, my name is Jeff. I am a 48 year old father of two boys. My youngest, 12 years old, has recently taken an interest in coin collecting. I decided to ease him into it. He has been going through change looking for State Quarters. I haven't told him yet but I have a rather large coin collection that my father and his father started back in the 40's and 50's. I have it stored in several safe deposit boxes and hiding places around the house. I never really have gone through everything and really don't know what all I have. I recently ordered some Whitman folders for both boys for Christmas. Not sure the older one really cares but who knows. I am going to start going through my father's collection with the boys and figure out what we have. I was looking for websites and this one seemed great. Figured I would join up so here I am. Anything else you want to know, just ask. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Sounds like a great course of action. I wouldn't change a thing.
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United States
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Rest in Peace
United States
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 to CCF. I'm sure what ever you have there is someone on this site who can help you out. |
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to the Community! |
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Canada
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to the CCF! |
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Pillar of the Community
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Sounds like a plan. Have FUN!
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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to CCF! |
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Valued Member
United States
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Hello Back at you also from East TN. My boy is 8 and one day he is really into coins and the next he could care less. He likes looking at them each time I get new coins. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Hi and Welcome. I have twin boys (now 24) whom I tried to get interested in the hobby back when they were about 10 years old. I started each of them with a Whitman cent folder (Lincoln Memorial). Then we started sorting through rolls from banks and pocket change. They seemed to enjoy it for awhile (a few months) but soon lost interest, once they discovered video games (I think Gameboys were popular then). They never picked up the coin folders again. Some of my fondest memories are of when my grandfather started me in coin collecting (Whitman cent folders also) when I was about 10 yrs old back in 1965. He passed away in 1978 but I still have some of his collection which I will never part with (for sentimental reasons). The Statehood Quarter series is a great place to start because they may also learn some geography and history about each state. Good Luck with your boys! |
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New Member
 United States
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Thanks everyone for the welcomes. I understand what you mean Warcoinguy. My 12 year old is all over the place. He has been pretty good with collecting his quarters. So where in east TN do you live? I live in Greenville but grew up in Oak Ridge.
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Awesome. Glad to see your children are getting into it organically?
We are a curious bunch: what type of collection is hiding in those boxes?
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New Member
United States
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A little bit of everything. I plan on sharing as we go through it together. I haven't really Ben through it in 5 or 6 years.
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New Member
United States
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I pulled a few boxes out of hiding tonight to show my son. I have a lot of work to do. I have things sorted in plastic shoeboxes. There was a shoebox of loose silver dimes. A shoebox of War Nickels and Buffalo nickels. There was two shoeboxes of wheat cents. There was a shoebox full of special mint sets .a litle bag of old foreign coins. One that stood out was a 1905 coin that said Deutsches Reich with a 10 in the middle and Pfennig at the bottom. There was also an 1868 Dansk Vestindisk 1 cent. With Christian IX Konge AF Danmark on front. I have no idea. Maybe 20 old foreign coins. Dad really didn't collect those. Then there was a box of half dollars from1900 on up. Some Trade dollars and Morgan's. Nickels from 1889-1912, over a 100 of those. Dimes 1892-1916, 95 of those, quarters from 1854-1929. The last few coins in this box include an 1876seated libert dime, 1867 shield 5 cent no Rays, 1865 3 cent liberty head, 1858? star 3 cent, 1865 2 cent, 1804 draped bust Half Cent and an 1857 Flying Eagle cent. That was enough for one night. I am going to go through this stuff that I mentioned and figure out what all we have. I need to figure out a way to catalog everything. Any good sites or programs for that? |
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United States
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I forgot to mention, I also found a tiny box of gold. There was 4 pieces of California gold. One was labeled 1857 1/4, one was 1859 1/4, one was 1860 1/2 and one was 1858 1/2. There was also a watch fob made up of a 1913, a 1912, a 1911 all 2 and a half dollar gold pieces and at the bottom was a 1876 1 dollar gold piece. Not sure what or where that came from and why anybody would do that to the coins.
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Belgium
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bit late, but this is def the site to do it...so mmuch knowledge ...thats why I myself am sticking around. many people are just willing to help you out, if you don't know stuff. Nway I hope you have fun yo with ya boys! and I c yur talking about boxes ...love to c some pics of that for shure  |
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