Was There Any One Who Influnced Your Passions To Collect. Also What ?

Initially, youtube videos of coin roll hunting sparked my interest, maybe when I was in about 5th or 6th grade. After a month or two of doing that without finding much, I gave it up. My Dad showed me his 20th century type set that he had to assemble for his boy scout coin collecting merit badge when I was a sophmore in high school. My mouth dropped, I would never have imagined I would ever see those coins in person. I was immediately attracted to the larger coinage, especially the earlier Barber half dollar. Shortly after that, my grandfather let me see his coin collection, mostly assembled from circulation finds, bulk wheat cents, and mint products. Since then, I bought and sold collections and built a network of people in the Sacramento area for the next two and a half years.

From everyone's influence throughout my life, I chose my individual path of specializing in Capped Bust half dollars. I've purchased a handful of four figure coins, which is still unbelievable in my eyes. I've come so far in a relatively small amount of time (3 years of collecting), and my goal one day is to handle six figure coins.

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My dad started me with the Ikes, but my mother did the most to keep me engaged during the early years. My grandparents (mom's side) helped by taking me places to get coins whenever I went up north to visit. My grandfather's friend owned a shop and was responsible for getting me out of Whitman folders and into Dansco albums.

I can't think of anyone who influenced me. My dad collected a little.

Guess I had major collectors OCD as a kid. Collected everything. Baseball cards, football cards, stamps, Civil War bullets, marbles, Disney, hats, NASCAR, comic books, beer and soda cans, coins,etc.

About the only thing I collect now, is coins.

Noone to blame, as a kid I got a few old coins from around the World and decided to keep them. Now grown up I am more involved with this nice passion

1967 my family owned a small cafe in a town in central Nebr. We had an old man as a daily customer, one day he told me he would buy all the silver that we encountered for 10% above face. At the time you could still get silver pretty regularly. After so long and a lot of questions from me, he told me about the local coin club. I went to the next meeting and was hooked. At that time, you could still get 10 to 20 wheats out of a roll. I know I was a pain at the two local banks, turning in rolls to get more rolls. I was roll searching before it was cool.

Back in the 80s, I used to be a paper boy for the Detroit News. I was in about 4th grade, and a customer or two would pay in a foreign coin when they were short for the week.

One of them paid me in a 1986 $100 golden colored peso coin from Mexico. I thought I was rich...not so much

Another gave me a 1916 10 centimes coin from France. I kept both for years...and not until I got older did I realize that this one was better than a dime, since it was silver.

At that age, I caught a little bit of the bug...and I went into a coin and comic store and overpaid for a steel penny and a common Mercury dime. They were my prized possessions.

So the customers accidentally gave me the bug...but after hearing I liked coins, a great uncle of mine gave me his old collection. Nothing crazy...A Peace dollar, a Morgan, a Liberty nickel and some others all glued to piece of card board. But that is when the hobby stuck with me.

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Ken