What Was The First Coin Set You Started With?

It's great to see you posting demonboy, and I wish you success with the sets you are collecting. In time you will find that they will take on more meaning and become a source of enjoyment and down right adventure.

Like the coin from the Netherlands, over the years you will acquire coins that will take on special meaning. Way more then their actual value, they will be those coin that under no circumstances, will you part with. These are the true gems of you collection.

Hope to see more of your posts.

As usual OldDan has hit the nail squarely on the head. Some coins have little or no monetary value but have unlimited sentimental value. This is especially true now with the Internet and collectors trading coins with each other. Other coins and especially tokens can cost very little and yet you can spend months even years finding out things about them. Those who are just chasing stuff and checking off a list,while waiting to make a killing, IMO, are just setting themselves up for big disappointment. Which of course is their right, but that's not what coin collecting is about.
Content > Constructs.

I started too with the Lincoln albums and did finish the second one-the easier one--after purchasing the last one for 35 cents. I scavenged empty beer bottles at "The Green" in Levittown N.Y. Regular bottles paid 2 cents deposit back and the quart bottles paid 5 cents back. I bought the last Lincoln for album two at Times Square Dept store, not actually in Times Square but somewhere on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown. After that I lost interest in coins until 1974.

I can remember all that from 1964 but I can't seem to remember to bring the garbage out to the dumpster before it gets filled up.

I started with the old copper coins