How long you been a darksider?

Sylvestius

Well here i am 15 years in the hobby and still going strong!

boz

Ever since the "feeding frenzy" of a couple years ago.

newsman

<< <i>Well here i am 15 years in the hobby and still going strong! >>



Wow! You must have been collecting coins since you were old enough to pick them up.

For me it's almost 30 years, but that's because I'm just a little older.

tbirde56

I was given my first darkside coins when I was in about 1st grade I think. By 7th grade I discovered how to buy some through the mail. It's been 35 years since then.

Sylvestius

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<< <i>Well here i am 15 years in the hobby and still going strong! >>



Wow! You must have been collecting coins since you were old enough to pick them up.

For me it's almost 30 years, but that's because I'm just a little older. >>





Yeah it was about 1990-ish, i was 5 heading on 6, or perhaps 6 already. What did it was the introduction of the new smaller 5 pence pieces (oh i hated them, i still do), but i kept a pile of the old bigger versions on one side, my father noticed this and gave me a tin full of old coins, 1807 Geo III penny in Fair, 1882H Bun Penny (yes H, wasn't the plain 1882 alas!) Fair, 1887 shilling (VF), 1944 Washington Quarter (VG/AF), 1953 Franklin half (F), 1907 IHC (F), 1887 threepence (GVF)... and a whole pile of other stuff.

Plus i had already taken an interest in the Florins that were in circulation.

Out of the list of orginals above, i still have the Geo III penny, and all the US coins.

I do miss the slightly verdigried 1882H penny though, i used to like that 'beauty'.

oldshep

Since I happened on this forum after visiting the lightside forum and saw Cosmicdebris Yemen lion he used to use as an icon I was hooked. By the way, I have never aquired that elusive lion.
Shep

Fairlaneman

No real title for the addiction I have.... Bought my first darkside coin a year ago or maybe two years ago. Collecting wise it has been off and on since 1982.

Ken

theboz11

About 20, and a lightsider a year or so more.

You mean this kind Shep.

Aethelred

I started collecting Darkside in 1986.

AndyBruce

It's been about 20 years for me!

cosmicdebris

Coins like the Yemen lion hooked me too. I became a darksider about 3 years ago.

spinaker2000

Only 3 yrs for me!

AuldFartte

Just less than six months or so ... formerly liteside all the way, until I met you people

Darkside Rules !!!

Cladiator

Almost 2 years in coin collecting and about 2 months on the darkside

wybrit

About 20 years, not counting the long layoff. 8 of those years have to be onsidered "liteside" since I lived in England and only collected British.

Sylvestius, sorry to break the news to you, but you are a "litesider!!"
(Of course if you are collecting those state quarters, then you're a darksider).

Luvdawgs

In April, it will be about 4 years that I've been enjoying the darkside

sumnom

I have had darkside coins since I was a kid but I didn't make the full conversion until about four or five years ago. I have acquired very, very few US coins since then.

kieferscoins

About 3-4 months. I just recently "came out of the closet" thanks to JamminJ and Greg Margulies for sparking my interest.

Cameron Kiefer

oldshep

You mean this kind Shep.

Wow oh wow - that is the one - I still lust for it in my heart
Shep

1960NYGiants

Collector since May 1967 - everything I could afford to hold onto.

Introduced to Greyside the following Christmas by my late Grandfather when he gave me a 1903 (his birthyear large cent).

Introduced to Darkside in 1970-71. I was fascinated by the foreign "junk box" at one dealers table at the 1st show I attended. I think they were 10 for a $. I tried to buy the best one of each of the large coppers mostly France and UK.

Learned about Canadian Farside from one of my math teachers in 1975-76. Twenty years later, I bought his entire collection when he retired.

Today I consider myself 10% Liteside, 10% Darkside, 40% Greyside, and 40% Farside - not necessarily in that order .

Found this place quite by accident a few years ago. I much prefer to be enDarkened!

Gene

PuddlePirate

I was a "lurker" before being a true convert from the "lightside". I have always loved "old" things. My first coins were a mixture of 1750's coins my brother and I found buried in Holyoak Massachusettes as kids. That was in 1964. My father put them in an old white sock and "put them away until we were older". Needless to say that sock has disappeared, although that year we got our first color TV, a brand new 1964 Ford Galaxy 500, and a housefull of new furniture.
I still wonder what those coins would have brought "today" on the market. All told my dear old dad did pretty well with the stuff my brother and I dug up in a sand pit that hot summer's day.

So - I have been a "declared" darksider for six months or so, but a life long collector before the "title"

coinrookie

About 2 and 3/4 years.

Steve

Sylvestius

<< <i>About 20 years, not counting the long layoff. 8 of those years have to be onsidered "liteside" since I lived in England and only collected British.

Sylvestius, sorry to break the news to you, but you are a "litesider!!"
(Of course if you are collecting those state quarters, then you're a darksider). >>



Ah but i do collect Washington Quarters and i've always ended up with people giving me other non British coins throughout most of my collecting years. Francs, euros... etc. Less collecting, more hoarding i suppose!

Philip

I have been actively collecting since 2000/2001 after I finally got hold of a Krause. Otherwise got hooked in 1997, but quickly realised that I needed to get a catalog if I don't want to be eaten alive.

Btw, collectors of state quarters should be called the pityside

syraq

How long you been a darksider?







<--------- 15 months longer than what it says here.

elverno

Liteside as a kid, 22 years on the darkside after my wife said "You're not going to collect Napoleonic swords! Why don't you collect something safe for the kids, like coins or something...?"


So, you see, she has no excuse...

YCCY9229

About 3 years for me.

trozau

@ 20 years.

cacheman

20 months

coinkat

Not long enough...

Stork

Since about April 2003...I may have had a few coins before then but my interest didn't blossom until I found this place

whohah

Since about 1966 or so. I just lost interest in the US designs. I still like US Type; however, the foreign stuff has taught me so much about our fellow occupants of the Big Blue Marble...

ColinCMR

As far back as i can remember

kuhli

Was a stamp collector as a kid, got rid of them as a teen. Got the collecting bug and started collecting Canadian coins in 1990, by 1992 I was deep into the darkside. Have cut back considerably, but still trying to maintain an active collection.

izzy452

About 4 years,and luvin it.




Walt

Hedger

Still thinking about it.

lordmarcovan

I've been in the hobby since 1976, and first got interested in Darkside coins fairly early in the game, but I would date my full "Darkside" conversion to about 1991 or so, when I first got my hands on a Krause catalog.

syraq

Was a stamp collector as a kid, got rid of them as a teen.

Askari

Hmm, define "Forever" ...

Actually, my first memories of coin collecting were of Portuguese coins I obtained "off the street" in the Azores when I lived there back in 1964-66. They were intriguingly different from the US coins I was used to. My dad, who was a flight engineer in the old C-124s also brought back odd coins and the occasional note from his foreign missions.

wjd283

Aboat three weeks.