Post Some Coins That Made You Feel Like A Kid Again

The coins that started my hobby many years ago. I have a problem passing any of them up now! Gotta buy them!

I was searching quietly through a dealer's junk box for a particular square coin that that had eluded me for some years.

There it was! I let out an involuntary very loud 'GOTCHYA!'

There about 10 customers in the shop at the time, and they all, just as involuntarily as myself, turned around and looked at me.

I still have that coin, and I still vividly remember the circumstance.

I remember absolutely lusting over the 1950 d nickel as a 12 years old boy.
My collection consisted of lincolns and jeffersons pulled from circulation and
I knew I would never own one. About a year ago, when the love of coin collecting was rekindled
and I discovered the coin area on ebay it was the first one I bought, an unc. for just under $20.
Yeah I guess I paid too much, no research, no thought, but a great connection with my past
and a great moment in my life. I could smell the odors in my mind of a coin show I went to
remembering looking at a 50d 41 years ago.

I feel like a kid anytime I find an older coin or brand new (current year) coin in change.

As a kid, I started my collection from circulation, so I am reminded how long I have been doing this. I always remember how I felt the first time I started noticing my change.

the reason I starting collecting Silver Dollars is because my great grandfather used to give all of us kids Silver dollars for Christmas and when I started collecting that is the memory that I thought about when I decided what series I wanted to collect. He didn't give us Morgans but I looked through all of the Silver Dollars and that was the series I liked best. It was just the heft of the coins in my hand when I was a kid that I remembered and thats why I chose the silver dollars