why you got hook in collecting and when stories

lasvegasteddy

hi all,
just a fun little cheerished story post here on the why and when we all got the hook.mine goes like this in 1970 at the precious age of 8 back in rural missouri i had spent the summer with my grams.she upon one evening decided for entertaintment we fill her penny books.she then returned from her cellar with a box and books.the box had some 20 original bank rolled indian head pennies that were so bright and new and i really liked this pennies design that i had never seen before...i was hooked!!!!!!!!!!!!!whats your precious little story?

cladking

I had always been interested in the little discs of metal that got passed back and forth in the store
but didn't really know why. It was probably the concept of money itself that got my attention but when
I learned that these traded at random and were dated then it just seemed natural to attempt to find
all the dates. My brothers both collected cents so I started a set of buffalos but before it was half done
the coins started disappearing from circulation so it was completed by mail order in the early 1960's.

When the date freezes were instituted in '64 it seemed to take all the fun out of collecting and it was
murder on the variety of coins. In 1970 all the quarters were dated from '65 to '70 and they were all
XF/ AU and almost uniformly ugly. It's small wonder world coins became so popular to collect.

It was the announcement from the mint in 1972 that they were going to start rotating out the coins
which had been in storage the longest that got me started on moderns. It was the high prices of most
US coins in the 1979 runup that got me started collecting tokens and medals. And it was the announc-
ment that the states coins were a go in 1996 that got me specializing in the moderns.

jabba

In My high school years in Colorado springs my history teacher was a coin nut and told us we could get extra credit if we went to the big coin show at the broad moor resort and right a report on the one million dollar's in bank note exhibit they had there. After looking at the bank note's I started looking at all the shinny coin's in the display cases for sale and was hooked from that moment on. I'm sad to say I lost the 1st Morgan dollar I got there when I mover to AZ but I will always remember that show.

fcloud

When I was in first grade, my brother and I had to take the city bus to school. Bus fare was 12 cents. I always liked the shinny new dimes my mom would give us for bus fare. We would get some nice shinny Mercury dimes now and then, and I was alway impressed with them. I didn't know people collected coins back then (I was six or seven).

At about 12 years old a freind showed me his coins, and I was hooked! A short while later I had a paper route and started collecting from my change. My parents thought collecting coins was stupid, so I never purchased a single coin before I was married! Now I have a great supporting wife who likes to look at any new coin I get. She is pretty cool about it. I get to spend what I want, when I want, and she is okay with it!

lasvegasteddy

thank you all so far for your post's...i love it

lkenefic

I started off when I was 8 years old. My Grandfather had a coffee can with Indian Head Cents and some Buff Nickels. During the Depression Era, when he'd get one in change at the soda fountain he ran he'd flip it into the coffee can. These are the coins that started off my collecting...I still have some of the original IHCs and most of the Morgan Dollars he flipped my way as well.

Leo

BlindedByEgo

My Dad got me hooked in when I was a small tyke of 4 or 5; each of us kids (4) had an old penny-shaped Lincoln cent book... I was the only one to fill in most of the minor keys... My uncle was a coin dealer in NC and heard about his brothers' new "convert" and sent me coins regularly... When my Grandfather passed on my Dad came home with 20-30 rolls of IHC's and we worked together to fill a Whitman... I used to buy coins in JHS for lunch money and my Dad would help me post them on a bid-board... My first rip: $0.65 for an 1864 L on ribbon IHC in XF. Great times spent with Pop - he loves to talk coins and conspiracy theories

OldReading

I was about 11. My grandfather and I were the best of buddies. I loved spending time with him. When he died, my Mom gave me a Lincoln Cent Whitman folder that he had been working on. I finished it for him.