Accidentally Became A Collector

@dynamictiger There are so many different ways we become collectors. Personally , just following in my father's footsteps.

Welcome I have had the pleasure of visiting the mint in Perth and Canberra.

Expat:Canberra A.C.T.

Greetings and welcome.

Most coin collectors have their "trigger moments", a specific moment or event in their life that sparked their passion and activated the coin collector genes which they almost certainly didn't inherit from their parents.

For some, it was when their beloved grandparent/parent/aunt/uncle/mentor/father-figure-etc gave them an old coin.

For some, it's finding an old, decades-obsolete coin in change, or hiding lost in an old piece of inherited furniture.

For some, it's finding a foreign coin in change, or going on a foreign holiday themselves and encountering foreign money for the first time.

For me, it was going to a "coin and stamp show" as a kid with my parents, and seeing really old foreign coins - coins that were "older than Australia" - for the first time.

For you, it was going into a mint gift shop and seeing bullion coins for sale.

It's all good.

Just happened to jump into my shopping cart. Honest. Don't really know why I was even on that site. Then I felt bad for them because an abandoned cart is a bad metric for an eCommerce site. So I bought it.

Then I worried about it getting lonely. So I bought it a friend.

Two coins get each other in trouble, so I bought a third as a tie break.

And, well...