Things we owned and did as YN's

F117ASR

Most of the stuff pictured here other than the kennedy half and penny, I've owned since I was a kid. Mostly junk but it has meaning to me.

here is something else I did as a kid. I never knew how much flips were so I made my own out of notecards. These haven't been opened for a while. The 1996's were the last I did this way.

Anyone else ever do stuff like this?

RGL

Heck, I had a bunch of coins from my neighbor and grandpa all jumped together in one of those velvet Crown Royal whisky bags ...

anoldgoat

I would unc cents and wrap them in tissue paper.
Found a counterfiet cent on the sidewalk and after a quick glance around, stuck it in a gumball machine. The dang 1955 cent was struck twice, he he, did I ever make out.

ziggy29

Not much left from my YN days here. Most of what I bought was for my Lincoln and IHC collections, and most of that was VG to VF stuff that's long since been replaced.

One of the few things I have left from my YN days is this 1869-S Seated Half. I paid something like $22 for it when I was about 14 years old (about 25 years ago), at a coin club where my dad used to work. Between the nostalgia and the wonderful, even-colored original look, I can't get myself to take the hundred bucks and dump it even though it really doesn't fit into any of my collecting endeavors:



I do have a bunch of ancient rolls but they are circulated Lincoln memorial cents, mostly of the 1970s, basically worth 50 cents a roll.

mirabela

I've dumped most of my kid collection. Some crazy stuff was in there beyond the usual albums full of well worn common junk -- a holed trade dollar, an XF+ 1843 seated dollar with an 'X' and a 'W' *hacked* into the surface, a 21-S Walker with a terrible big gouge, a cleaned Fr2 '77 IHC, a Civil War era gold dollar with a jewelry loop, more scrubbed classic commemoratives (not my doing!) than you can shake a stick at, a nice GSA dollar but I've never been able to stand those awful holders... I've still got a lot of my original mercs, though. Also, when I started to do a type set, I enlisted everything that I had that would hold a place until I got a better example. That's several dozen coins, only maybe six or seven of which are pieces I'd want to settle down with w/o upgrading.

As for stuff I did... let's not go there.

F117ASR

Great guys! Let's keep the stories coming

Hedger

Still have my Lincoln wheat collections that were given to me by an uncle. There are a few keys in there too. Gave away my box of foreign coins to a youngster a few years ago and wonder if he still has them. They were given to me so I thought I'd do the same for someone else.

SmallSizedGuy

My best young collector find was a 1922 plain Lincoln in Fine. Found it in a can of wheat pennies from my aunt. At the time, I couldn't figure out why there was no slot in my Whitman folder for it. Glad I kept it!