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United States
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I was about ten and was given two morgan rolls for Christmas which peaked my interest. I would spread the morgans out on my bed and sort the coins based on my favorite ones. Collected wheaties out of change and even remember having to decide to spend one as I needed one more cent and it was the last coin in my pocket. Fast forward ten years... Walked into a coin store and after looking around found a Barber quarter flipped over in a tray of a less than clear glass case. Upon pulling it out of a tray I knew I wanted it but the price tag of $200 made me leave it. Woke up the next morning still thinking about it, and brought 5 rolls of early silver quarters to trade for it. The guy working there was surprised to see it in the case yet he traded me for the rolls. The barber later graded MS-62 as it had a very fine staple mark on it which to my untrained eye then was invisible at the time. I sold that barber back to the very same coin dealer who I know quite well now about six years ago. He still liked it a lot and traded for a handful(20+-) of nice morgans. It was the coin that made me start to look and see what else I had been missing...and the beginning of a wonderful sickness.  Edited by cointagous
10/03/2011 10:33 am
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United States
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In 2008 a friend had me pick out of a box, filled with Walkers. 1 Walker to put in my expecting sons Piggy bank, for good luck. I choose the 1947S mainly because it was IMO the prettiest one. I'd find myself staring at it all the time. It would call to me. After about a month or so, starting at this walker amazed by its beauty. I decided to research it. The Red Book was recommended. When I seen the prices attached to coins I could find in circulation I was hooked! This all stems from the time I use to spend with my Mother, when I was a lot younger 5-8 she would have me separate Washington quarters from Standing Lib. Qtrs, Then by Mint Marks. I loved the Standing Libs, she had half a shoe box filled w/ them. Turns out she use to have a full shoe box filled with Morgans and Standing Lib Qtrs, that was stolen by a friend she let live with her. While she was at work, He took everything he could carry and went to Flordia. He was nice enough to leave a note. I've thought about hunting him down, but per my Mothers request I am to leave it alone. "He needed it more than I did" She says. EEERRRRRR so if you happen to live in Florida, or moved from KeansBurg NJ to Florida, after stealing Linda's Collection. Please message me. (Hey you never know!) She worked at the board walk and Leo's Jewelers and would save everything she liked, by cashing it out at the EOD. She still has some Peace and Morgans. So all was not lost. The 1878 8 TF. has a price tag of $16 on it. LOL |
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United States
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Living in England in the 70's my older brothers had a metal detector--we found alot of pennies in the woods-- dont know if my brother still has the wooden box full of them.. I started my self around 2 years ago with a 1902 IHCRetired USAF 1983-2003
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When I was about 12), my grandmother gave me many coins she had saved, to give me when she thought I was of a responsible age. Also, in the late 50's, early 60's, the Boston Jordan Marsh store had a very large coin section on the 1st floor, and I would buy coins there whenever I could scrape up a few dollars, but being lax with money, I didn't keep them long, and when I was old enough to own a car, all was gone. Started up again in the early 90's...
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Turkey
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My story is like that, when I was about 11-12 years old, back in 80's me and my parents were driving through Eastern Europe and we stopped to take a break at Belgrade, Yugoslavia (modern day Serbia). I found a 1 Dinar coin on the ground, and it suddenly become my treasure. I carried it in my pocket to the rest of the trip, yet, I think I must have dropped it somewhere in Austria or Italy :). Sİnce then, I am interested in shiny round things.:)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It was so long ago and I was so young I really don't remember. My father collected so that was a big influence.
I know he gave me a 1965 mint set that he bought directly from the mint but I don't remember which year he gave it to me. It may have been 1966.
Then again, I have trouble remembering what I had for dinner two days ago.
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United States
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Bought a box of silver in 2008 after lehman crashed 'just in case'. Wanted to start buying more, then realized how much I was missing by only wanting to deal with bullion. Now I'm in it pretty heavy and am buying all the time from local people who just don't want collections anymore.
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United States
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Back in 1968, grade 8, my best friend and his older brother had a paper route (which meant they had money to spend, lol)... one day I saw an ad in a comic book for a "big bag of old coins" for $2.95 and 25 cents postage, which I pointed out to my friend. He talked it over with his brother, and the told me that if I ordered it, they would let me keep whatever coin I wanted from it. They fronted to money and I mailed it off. About six weeks later the "big bag of old coins" arrived and I ran over to my friend's house with the package unopened. Inside the envelope was a small cotton bag with a handful of coins... three Buffalo nickels, a Mercury dime, a beat up Standing Liberty quarter, about half a dozen Lincoln pennies from the 1920s and a Flying Eagle penny. True to their word, I got to pick the coin of my choice... and I picked the Flying Eagle penny since I had never seen down before. They told me they were afraid I was going to pick the SLQ. This one coin started my love affair with coins, although I didn't really start coin collecting for many years afterwards. My friend later told me that he and his brother were so happy with the coins that they pooled together enough money to order ten more "bags of old coins" on their own but they never received their order. I still have that FEC... it's a 1858 that I'd grade about VG8 condition. Not worth a great deal, but it means the world to me! Les |
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Canada
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I was working in construction downtown in my city. We were tearing apart the inside of a 7 story building that was built in 1910. We worked our way top to bottom. months and months of not finding a single thing and then we hit the main floor. We had to tear up the flooring to replace the floor joists so we started cutting through SEVEN layers of flooring. In one corner of the building was a built-in little pocket between layers like it was to be opened from underneath and inside the space I found a 1919 Large Cent. The next day when I was tearing up flooring around a column, I found a little "pocket spill" of a few silver quarters and dimes that had made their way to lean against the base of the column under the flooring since it was really hard to put square-edge flooring flush around a circular column back in 1910. While tearing up some more flooring by the elevator I found a 1927 silver quarter and then later that day I was cleaning off the floor joists holding up the second floor and a 1910 silver dime happened to fall to the ground so I picked that up as well.
I was the only worker to find any coins in the building and that 1919 large cent started it all. It is the prize of my collection as it was what started everything!
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thanks Jbuck and to everyone sharing their stories! I haven't been around here long enough to notice some of the older threads but I do enjoy the strolls down memory lane :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I started collecting when I was 12. It was getting dark out and had to get home for supper. As I was riding my scooter and on the route back I passed by a shop which I used to frequent that sold trading and sports cards. I was still collecting pokemon cards then and decided to go in to see if there were any cards that I wanted. Just as I walked in, one of the cases had a small grouping of coins that the owner had save a while ago but decided to sell them. I was amazed at the grouping as I had never seen anything like them before. Not knowing anything about them, I decided to pickup a worn 1914 dime for $1.50. I think it was about a week later that I returned to that store and picked up a 1893 Columbian half dollar. I still have both coins. It was about 6 months later that I decided to begin to collect seriously.
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