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Valued Member
United States
424 Posts |
I've read that many of you, like myself, had collected coins in the past but for one reason or another stopped. For me, I slowed down and eventually stopped about thirty years ago when my kids got a little older and started little league, softball and other activities. Then about six months ago I pulled out my old collection and realized I was one coin short of a complete set of Franklin half dollars. I decided to buy that Franklin, and when it came and I had it in my hand that old rush came over me and I was hooked again big time. Now I can't stop picking up different coins, and even though I have limited funds, have decided to put together a set of Kennedy half dollars (I love half dollars). So, if you stopped collecting for any length of time, what was the trigger that brought you back? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1695 Posts |
I wanted my kids to enjoy collecting as I did when I was a kid. That brought me back.
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Valued Member
Canada
139 Posts |
They were rumors in 07-08 that they were eiminating the penny so I wanted to gather as many as I could outta circlation, also the price of silver was going up.
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Rest in Peace
10197 Posts |
I received a checkbook size box of mixed coins Wheats, SLQs, a 1879 Morgan and a mason jar of silver dimes. It almost filled 3/4 of the folder of Roosies...and off we went! It is interesting, that folder is now completed! A hiatus from 9/14/1970 to 4/3/2013.
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04/24/2018 8:46 pm
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Pillar of the Community
5464 Posts |
Dgm9999- Your singing my song. Quote:
what was the trigger that brought you back? Disposable income. My hiatus is identical to Crazyb0's. Due to a combination of military, career and family. My parents held my collection for all those years while I was out finding myself. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
I assist with estate sales and there was one occasion when the coins were just going much too cheaply, so I bought all the rest. Then I dug back in the vault past the comics, key hero pulps, sports cards of value - and so on - to pull my own coins out. I have been addicted forevermore, selling many of my other collectibles to put them toward US coins. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5239 Posts |
It was the diversity of foreign coins (and one very good LCS) that got me back in, after a hiatus to go to school and a period of unemployment and no money.
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Rest in Peace
United States
10625 Posts |
I saw a Littleton coin add in a magazine about 20 years ago and it reminded me of my collection that was buried away. I proceeded to purchase a coin magazine and started ordering coins via mail....  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4085 Posts |
The State Quarter program kind of got me interested in coins again but I didn't do more than buy mint and proof sets every year. What really got me back into collection is deciding to finish out my Topps 1973 Baseball card set that I started when I was a kid. Once I finished that, I had the collecting bug again and started my 7070 shortly after that. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
18456 Posts |
My coin collecting was down for a good many years until 2012 when I had to leave my job because of Lupus and other ailments .That's when I started getting in to it again. So I started again where I left off in 1988 . Hot and heavy now to say the least .  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3120 Posts |
Ain't never left, 50 straight years....  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1326 Posts |
I never had much capital to invest as a kid. Then I became discouraged when they did away with most silver coins in 1965. Started up again 4 years ago while recovering from surgery.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2023 Posts |
I stopped somewhere around high school/college, for lack of time and money. I started collecting comic books instead. I bought a couple of bullion pieces (gold Buffalo and platinum Eagle) in 2008 when the economy soured, but I didn't buy anything else for another seven years. It was a full set of silver proof State Quarters that got me hooked again. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4211 Posts |
I sold a lot of my collection in 2000 to fund a business. Found a Wheat cent in my change about 10 years or so later and my husband said, you use to really enjoy collecting coins. Why don't you start again. Son was grown and disposable income was better so here I am.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I stopped somewhere around high school/college, for lack of time and money Me too. While on a work assignment in Europe, a colleague told me about an auction house that dealt in medieval European coins (among others), and that got me hooked. |
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 United States
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I also stopped in high school. Decades later, I got back into collecting when someone on a different forum was selling some of their coins. That started the collecting itch again.
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Posted 04/24/2018 8:31 pm
