Who did you get your collecting instincts from, your Mom or your Dad?

ANACONDA

I got them from my Mom and Dad. My dad collected coins and my Mom collected stamps.

(Actually, all personal injury lawyers who are also coin dealers were raised by rats, but the other story sounded better.)

adrian

JrGMan2004

My dad... I get my musical abilities from my mom... but my collecting came from my dad, he had circ Mircs in an Album (Ugly Album Toning... nasty...) and he also has some other stuff... and my grandpa also gave me some coins a couple years ago, including some 2-centers, Large Cents, and a 3-cent Silver...

airplanenut

I got it from no one--I got into coins after the stamp fad had passed (it never really got my cooking)... A few littleton ads, a few gifts, a lot of weeks of allowances, and I was a YN... then I learned how to get a job

TayTay

Neither my mother or father has ever really "collected" anything. I got started by seeing ads in comic books and Boy's Life in the '70's. My uncle collected the comic books that I read, so I guess he's the one that rubbed off on me. I hope to pass it on to mine!

nwcs

Thankfully neither since they both cannot buy or sell well. Although my mom is a collector. She gets most her stuff from the mint these days.

Wolfy00002

I got it from my grandparents (they raised me), they owned a coin store, and they gave me little odds and ends here and there. As far as the stamps, I got that from my uncle, who owned a stamp shop, and closed it down, and gave me all of the inventory. Now, they both take up way too much of my time, and I can hardly be seen without a stamp or coin of some sort in hand.

wingedliberty

Without a doubt, neither one. More like grandparents and friends.

Stuart

My father started me out in coin collecting when I was about 10 yrs old. I'd go through his pocket change every week, and he'd sometimes "salt" some key Lincolns or Jeffersons and watch how excited I'd get when I "found" them.

MatthewBabcock

I got all my stuff from NEWPS specials... Just kidding...

The collecting bug skipped from my grandfather to me, by passing my mother.

ladyship

My Dad,
I had a metal detector in my hands at 4,dredging for gold at 7 and coffee cans of Indians to look at by the age of 8,then Grandpa gave me his collection and I was hooked.Of course being a smart girl I married a coin collector

ealandg

My dad. Unfortunately I didn't know he had a collection until after he died. That is what got me started. I sure wish he were around today, because he would have loved this board...

MrLee

My Grandfather collected. My Dad collected. Now I collect.

Prometheus183

Got them from me mom. Previous thread will explain,... can't remember which one. I was too lubed at the time.
In fact, I'm too lubed now to remember.
Such is life - enjoy

mercurynut

My Mom she was a pack rat ......she collected everything for every reason.

dollardude

Thankfully, neither. I have a friend (a self-made millionaire and college dropout, believe it or not) who got me interested.

LUCKOFTHEIRISH

Myself

numismatic2004

My mom nor dad collected coins,my grandpa and uncle did though.

Cam40

Wow, Just thinking about the earliest memories about collector coins...I remember my brother telling me about
the `buffalo nickel where the buffalo was standing on a mound (type 1) instead of the usual plains (type 2)`
and it was a cool cool coin to have.`
That was around the mid 60s....we were millions of years before we would be teenagers and billions of years
before we,d be ...well `old`......now it seems like only a few years til I,m in a wheelcair and living in a hospice
or something.
Time goes fast. Too fast for a coin collector huh. Or not fast enough, Whatever your perspective

cladking

<< <i>Time goes fast. Too fast for a coin collector huh. Or not fast enough, Whatever your perspective
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe. >>



Hey, time don't fly it bounds and leaps. I think I'm double parked somewhere.

...but the meter wouldda been expired anyway.

Coin Finder

My Dad who is a former attorney and calls himself a "recovering Attorney"

And my Grandparents on both sides who were avid collectors of coins.

Tbig

Shamika

My Dad, though he's more of a hoarder than a collector.

razorface1027

Pop...God bless'em. In fact, earlier this evening my siblings and me split up his stamp collection, Dept. 56 collection and his Waterford crystal collection. We did the coin collection a couple years ago...

haletj

My grandfather. He had about the largest stamp collection ever (but had nothing good in it all). He really encouraged my collecting when I was a kid. My mom collects silver charms, and my grandmother collected spoons. My dad collected coins as a kid but doesn't collect anything now.

mgoodm3

My grandmother. My mom and dad have a few coins/currency but were never big collectors.

Neptune

Mom and Dad both gave us coin books to keep us out of their hair - it was that or pull clover roots for a penny apiece. ROF! I remember going next door to check out the neighbor's cherry red lincolns. Then they started giving us coins for occasions such as birthdays, etc. Still have those books too.

shirohniichan

My mom was a stamp collector, but when I was 9 or so my dad showed me a coffee can of coins he pulled from change as a kid. He had a 1923-S Monroe Doctrine half dollar, a bent half dime, a corroded 2 cent piece, and a number of other coins that got me interested. I've been collecting ever since.

Skipper53

My father got into stamps when I was a teenager but
I never could get into it. I was 20 when my folks divorced.
When my Mom remarried , my stepdad started sending proof sets
as birthday presents.
I gradually became interested in coins until, now I'm hooked !

hughesm1

<< <i>My Grandfather collected. My Dad collected. Now I collect. >>



Same here

tonyhar

My Father gave me a tin of coins he collected during his postings during WW2.

Conder101

Neither but I did pass it up the line to my father.

MadMonk

Neither. I guess it's a curse from the old country.

coinlieutenant

dad

CoinHusker

Both! My Mom has collections of all sorts (funny, no coins though) all over her house and Dad was a big history buff. Put the two together and I collect coins.

fcloud

Nope! My parents didn't encourage me.

I was the opposite with my kids, I tried very hard to get them interested, but they only have a passing interest; although, they would be very disappointed if they didn't get coins for Christmas (a tradition I started when they were very young).

toothpuller

When I was a boy my aunt gave me a Whitman with some IHCs. The coins originally belonged to my grandfather who died three years before I was born. Still have those low grade coins and still find IHCs to be my favorite collectible coins.

Julian

My mother introduced me to coins, at the tender age of 11.