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AllentramAllentram Posts: 111 ✭✭✭
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Hi all. After a 10-year hiatus from these forums and US coin collecting, I’m back to both! My old login ID is connected to an inactive email, lost in the abyss, so looks like I get to start over.

I’ve been collecting off and on for over 40 years now (started at 10, I’m now 51) so I sort of know what I’m doing. Years ago I submitted my share of coins to PCGS where I got pleasant surprises and body-bag disappointments.

For years I considered myself a type collector. Before my hiatus I focused on Walking Liberty Halves and Jefferson Nickels and am picking up where I left off. I found more enjoyment and direction focusing and studying specific series and completing albums.
I’m also helping my boys with albums of Roosevelt Dimes and Kennedy Halves, hoping I can pass of my enjoyment of the hobby that I’ve enjoyed for years.

Any tips, advice, or suggestions when buying any of these series on ebay or other on-line auction sites would be appreciated.

I appreciate these boards for the knowledge, helpful advice, and brutal honesty. I'll probably have more questions than answers, but hopefully can add some positive contributions. I can’t wait to show you all the coins I’ve found at local parking lots with valuable mint errors. Just kidding. :D:)

Good to be back.

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  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Glad you’re back! Post a pic of one of your favorite coins from your collection and why it’s a favorite?

    Seated Half Society member #38
    "Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
  • bearcavebearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome back!! 👌

    Ken
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome back!

    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • P0CKETCHANGEP0CKETCHANGE Posts: 3,027 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 17, 2021 4:57PM

    @Allentram said:

    I appreciate these boards for the knowledge, helpful advice, and brutal honesty.

    Couldn't agree more. It's a remarkable corner of the internet. Welcome back.

    Nothing is as expensive as free money.

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 17, 2021 5:07PM

    @Allentram said:
    I’ve been collecting off and on for over 40 years now (started at 10, I’m now 51) so I sort of know what I’m doing. Years ago I submitted my share of coins to PCGS where I got pleasant surprises and body-bag disappointments.
    Good to be back.

    Welcome!
    Awesome...I did the exact same thing about a year ago! But I wasn't returning...I had never really been online with the hobby at all, other than purchases. And now I wonder if we even have the same birthday because we're the same age and collecting about the same amount of time :smiley: I may have started only a tiny bit earlier in around 1978 :blush:
    Yup, the communities have been wonderful and ultra helpful!!!

    Coins are Neato!

    "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,100 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think I remember you

    ;)

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome back! A lot of us from way back are back on. I happened on a post in my old account and my last login there was 7/28/07. My how time flies... over 13k posts.

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,367 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome back!

    “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

    My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,424 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kurisu said:

    @Allentram said:
    I’ve been collecting off and on for over 40 years now (started at 10, I’m now 51) so I sort of know what I’m doing. Years ago I submitted my share of coins to PCGS where I got pleasant surprises and body-bag disappointments.
    Good to be back.

    Welcome!
    Awesome...I did the exact same thing about a year ago! But I wasn't returning...I had never really been online with the hobby at all, other than purchases. And now I wonder if we even have the same birthday because we're the same age and collecting about the same amount of time :smiley: I may have started only a tiny bit earlier in around 1978 :blush:
    Yup, the communities have been wonderful and ultra helpful!!!

    It's considered bad form to talk to you alt.

    ;)

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 17, 2021 5:56PM

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @Kurisu said:

    @Allentram said:
    I’ve been collecting off and on for over 40 years now (started at 10, I’m now 51) so I sort of know what I’m doing. Years ago I submitted my share of coins to PCGS where I got pleasant surprises and body-bag disappointments.
    Good to be back.

    Welcome!
    Awesome...I did the exact same thing about a year ago! But I wasn't returning...I had never really been online with the hobby at all, other than purchases. And now I wonder if we even have the same birthday because we're the same age and collecting about the same amount of time :smiley: I may have started only a tiny bit earlier in around 1978 :blush:
    Yup, the communities have been wonderful and ultra helpful!!!

    It's considered bad form to talk to you alt.

    ;)

    I'm too old, I don't understand your slang... I thought I had found a new friend!

    Coins are Neato!

    "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome back, that's great that you're guiding your kids into this hobby. C u around. Peace Roy

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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,424 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kurisu said:

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @Kurisu said:

    @Allentram said:
    I’ve been collecting off and on for over 40 years now (started at 10, I’m now 51) so I sort of know what I’m doing. Years ago I submitted my share of coins to PCGS where I got pleasant surprises and body-bag disappointments.
    Good to be back.

    Welcome!
    Awesome...I did the exact same thing about a year ago! But I wasn't returning...I had never really been online with the hobby at all, other than purchases. And now I wonder if we even have the same birthday because we're the same age and collecting about the same amount of time :smiley: I may have started only a tiny bit earlier in around 1978 :blush:
    Yup, the communities have been wonderful and ultra helpful!!!

    It's considered bad form to talk to you alt.

    ;)

    I'm too old, I don't understand your slang... I thought I had found a new friend!

    I'm older than you. LOL. An alt is an "alternate user ID".

  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Allentram , welcome back to the forum!

    My only tip about buying coins online would be to look into Great Collections if you haven't already. It's more or less replaced eBay as the venue where weekly online coin auctions take place. eBay is mostly fixed price listings these days, much of it overpriced, but you can still sometimes find things to buy there as well.

    Collector's Corner is a useful aggregator of offerings from many different dealers and auction houses.

    Happy hunting!

    My Roosevelt Dime Registry Set
  • scooter25scooter25 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭✭

    Welcome back!! I too have just come back from hiatus!! Fortunately I still have my email though lol

  • AllentramAllentram Posts: 111 ✭✭✭

    @CoinJunkie said:
    @Allentram , welcome back to the forum!

    My only tip about buying coins online would be to look into Great Collections if you haven't already. It's more or less replaced eBay as the venue where weekly online coin auctions take place. eBay is mostly fixed price listings these days, much of it overpriced, but you can still sometimes find things to buy there as well.

    Collector's Corner is a useful aggregator of offerings from many different dealers and auction houses.

    Happy hunting!

    Thanks! I noticed that about ebay too, mostly BIN items, very few auctions, cautious about pricing.

    I've browsed Great Collections and Collector's Corner just a couple of times, will probably sign up soon.

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome back!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Allentram .... Welcome back... Hope everything has gone well during your absence... Sometimes, life gets in the way... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good for you!

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