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New Member
United States
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How Long Have You Collected Classic US coins? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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From the beginning of my collecting journey, 2.5 years for me.
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United States
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My first classic US coin was probably 52 years ago.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Mine was about 54 years ago . After going hog wild with Lincolns and Jeffersons I started with Mercury dimes and V- Nickels . Then it was just a little of everything classic except Morgans, Peace dollars and Gold coins .  |
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 United States
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I got my first classic coin more than 40 years ago.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm a child of the 80s and remember digging through my parents dishes of pocket change during elementary school. My first purchase of a "Classic" was ca 1997 as a teenager.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I got an 1857-O Seated dime from my Granddad in 1973 when I was 9 which is probably one of the first, possibly the first. I also had one of those classic coin sets that you could get cheap at coin stores that had a well circulated Morgan, Barber Half, Dime and Quarter, Liberty nickel and Indian Head cent that I got around the same time. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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My first three or four years were mostly what would be termed moderns except for my type set, then I started going back and I've done pretty much just classics for the past 45 years.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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since 1968...54 years ago.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The first U.S. classic coin that I included in my collection was an 1847 silver Half Dime. About VF-20 condition. That was waaaaay back in the mid 1950's. I was still in elementary school at the time. |
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Valued Member
United States
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As a youngster around 1980 I learned that magic number 1964 and scoured change for it, also back then you could get wheat pennies and I arbitrarily set 1959 as my cutoff date for Jefferson nickels worth saving. On top of that, my grandmother had a pouch of old Liberty nickels which I somehow took possession of (OK I guess I just stole them, she certainly wouldn't have given them to me), and those were just magical, a time machine to an era that seemed impossibly old, ghostly and ancient, to this day the Liberty nickel is my most nostalgic coin. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Like a few others have mentioned, I began with Lincoln's and Indian Head nickels in 1974 in order to achieve the coin collecting merit badge of the Boy Scouts. Liberty dimes and Barber dimes followed a few years later, 1976/77. For the record, I still possess every coin I put together over the years as assembled. ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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04/23/2022 3:12 pm
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Posted 04/20/2022 2:15 pm
