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35+ year collector of Morgan Dollars; Modern Gold Commemoratives since 1986
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  • ledzep87ledzep87 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭
    Late December of 2005. I'm a newbie. image
    Great transaction with: Relaxn, Collectorcoins, OKCC
  • JustaRookieJustaRookie Posts: 566 ✭
    Off and on for 20 years....
    Charter member of CA, Coinaholics Anonymous-6/7/2003
    Kewpie Doll award-10/29/2007
    Successful BST transactions with Coinboy and Wondercoin.
  • thecointraderthecointrader Posts: 480 ✭✭
    First got a barber quarter in change in elementary school in 1963. It was old, it was ugly, it was WAY COOL!

    Been hooked ever since.

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    thecointrader

    200 Posts in Five Years but Always Lurking
    "Giving away an MS-65 $20 St. Gaudens to everyone logged in when I make my 10,000th post..."
  • FletcherFletcher Posts: 3,294 ✭
    Just had my first anniversary image

  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    I've been collecting coins for about eight years. Only got into it seriously about two years ago.

    -Amanda
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    I'm a YN working on a type set!

    My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!

    Proud member of the CUFYNA
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Almost 3 years total. About 1 year in my specialty area.
  • SmallTownCoinsSmallTownCoins Posts: 688 ✭✭
    I opened my Coin Shop in 1983...Full Time Reatail... Started collecting about 15 years previous to that... It's been a good ride....so far...
    Support your local Coin Shop
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  • DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825


    << <i>I've been collecting coins for about eight years. Only got into it seriously about two years ago.

    -Amanda >>



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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess we need to do this about once a year.

    I started back in the late 60s (68 or 69 I don't remember too well, it was a long time ago).

    I collected seriously for a few years, then dropped out for other things.

    Picked it back up in the early - mid 80s, then dropped out again.

    Picked it back up in 1995 and have been fairly serious since.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Half a century next year. 1957.
    Tempus fugit.
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,539 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Found the type 1 standing lib quarter that got me started in 1963...first coin I purchased at a premium over face was in 64. Been at it ever since.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,426 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1/4 of a century off and on.

    Ken
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Since 1960.
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,075 ✭✭✭✭✭
    40 yrs give or take and on and off..........
    👍BST's erickso1,cone10,MICHAELDIXON,TennesseeDave,p8nt,jmdm1194,RWW,robkool,Ahrensdad,Timbuk3,Downtown1974,bigjpst,mustanggt,Yorkshireman,idratherbgardening,SurfinxHI,derryb,masscrew,Walkerguy21D,MJ1927,sniocsu,Coll3tor,doubleeagle07,luciobar1980,PerryHall,SNMAM,mbcoin,liefgold,keyman64,maprince230,TorinoCobra71,RB1026,Weiss,LukeMarshall,Wingsrule,Silveryfire, pointfivezero,IKE1964,AL410, Tdec1000, AnkurJ,guitarwes,Type2,Bp777,jfoot113,JWP,mattniss,dantheman984,jclovescoins,Collectorcoins,Weather11am,Namvet69,kansasman,Bruce7789,ADG,Larrob37,Waverly, justindan
  • longtimecollectorlongtimecollector Posts: 2,368 ✭
    40+
    Cam-Slam 2-6-04
    3 "DAMMIT BOYS"
    4 "YOU SUCKS"
    Numerous POTD (But NONE officially recognized)
    Seated Halves are my specialty !
    Seated Half set by date/mm COMPLETE !
    Seated Half set by WB# - 289 down / 31 to go !!!!!
    (1) "Smoebody smack him" from CornCobWipe !
    IN MEMORY OF THE CUOF image
  • slipgateslipgate Posts: 2,301 ✭✭
    Since 1975
    My Registry Sets! PCGS Registry
  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
    50+ years, favor Lincolns.
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Off and on for 20 years but not seriously until about 3 years ago.
  • xbobxbob Posts: 1,979 ✭
    Circ wheaties in folders, gift proof sets, and family hand-me-downs since childhood (35 yrs+). However there was a long pause until 3 years ago when I got back into it, ironically it was when I went to the Baltimore show to sell the coins all off. It was my first show and it blew me away. After I picked my jaw off the floor I knew I was "home" and started collecting again, and with more serious passion. A complete 180.
    -Bob
    collections: Maryland related coins & exonumia, 7070 Type set, and Video Arcade Tokens.
    The Low Budget Y2K Registry Set
  • thezookrewthezookrew Posts: 650 ✭
    Been hoarding money since I started working, but started COLLECTING coins with the State Quarters - so about 6 years or so.
    TheZooKrew
    Morgan, modern sets, circulated Kennedys, and Wisconsin error leaf quarter Collector
    First (and only - so far) Official "You Suck" Award from Russ 2/9/07
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I started with the release of the 1986 SAE. So don't poo poo the Gold Buffalo's too much. They may be the doorway for another collector to enter the hobby.
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow.. since I was about 9. I guess 24 years.
    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
  • foodudefoodude Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭
    1971
    Greg Allen Coins, LLC Show Schedule: https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/573044/our-show-schedule-updated-10-2-16 Authorized dealer for NGC, PCGS, CAC, and QA. Member of PNG, RTT (Founding Platinum Member), FUN, MSNS, and NCBA (formerly ICTA); Life Member of ANA and CSNS. NCBA Board member. "GA3" on CCE.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,609 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Started on Christmas day, 1959.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    Since the 1960s. Collection was stolen while in graduate school but I started over presumably wiser and more focused. Been doing DMPL Morgans since the last bull market crashed and burned.
    Select Rarities -- DMPLs and VAMs
    NSDR - Life Member
    SSDC - Life Member
    ANA - Pay As I Go Member
  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    Since 1971, when I was 9 years old.

    Tom
    Tom

  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,054 ✭✭✭
    25+ year collector. I love Morgans, Peace Dollars and WLH Dollars!

    TorinoCobra71

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  • DeusExMachinaDeusExMachina Posts: 1,325 ✭


    << <i>Off and on for 20 years but not seriously until about 3 years ago. >>



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  • busco69busco69 Posts: 815 ✭✭
    33 years my dad started me in it when I was five. I helped him go thru about 50 large bank bags of wheat cents,man that was fun we found alot of key dates.
    ''Coin collecting is the only hobby where you can spend all your money and still have some left''
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    since I was 5
    I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

    Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.

    Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
  • RBB617RBB617 Posts: 498 ✭✭
    The short answer is 9 or 10 years of actual collecting, broken down in two stints: 8 - 12 and 33 to present.
  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    I have been collecting coins since 1958, currency since the early 70's, tokens since the early 80's and have been a full time dealer since 1965.
    PNG member, numismatic dealer since 1965. Operates a retail store, also has exhibited at over 1000 shows.
    I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.

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  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭
    Since 1966. You could still find silver coins in circulation back then but they were disappearing fast. Filled up most of the Roosevelt
    whitman folder and a fair amount of the Mercury dime folder as well. By 1968 silver coins were getting very scarce and by
    1969 the party was basically over.
  • millenniummillennium Posts: 3,305



    << <i> First got a barber quarter in change in elementary school in 1963. It was old, it was ugly, it was WAY COOL! >>




    Hey!...That's the way I got started...A friend of mine was collecting coins and I found one I thought he wanted...he didn't so I kept it....that was the first.
    My Coin Find Videos
  • TheKidCollector1991TheKidCollector1991 Posts: 722 ✭
    Since I was 12 Now Am 14.

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    Proud member of the CUFYNA
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,473 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Since 1966. You could still find silver coins in circulation back then but they were disappearing fast. Filled up most of the Roosevelt
    whitman folder and a fair amount of the Mercury dime folder as well. By 1968 silver coins were getting very scarce and by
    1969 the party was basically over. >>



    started the year after Michigan with paper route in '67... sold off everything to buy christmas presents for 14 brothers and sisters in 1973. Went to the military for a few tours... marriage... and didn't get back into coins until after my divorce in '99..... None the wiser. Still trying to make a buck and losing cents!
    I have more rarities than I've ever had and I'm still not satisfied. When I get me a 1913 Nickel and a 1933 Saint, I'm retiring from coin collecting.
  • OldgrumpOldgrump Posts: 119 ✭✭
    Going on 48 yearsimage,But just 6 years a bonified serious collector. It took that long before I had the money
    Steve
  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭
    Worked on the Whitman penny book (1941 - 19##) to earn a Merit badge for Cub Scouts when I was 6.

    I just turned 52 last month. Took a couple of short breaks along the way but have been pretty serious since I got my first steel cent.

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    etexmike
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll check in with right around 40 years.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • SmokerSmoker Posts: 216 ✭
    50+ years on and off. Started when SLQs, Mercs, Franklins, Walkers, Buffalo nickels, early Lincolns, Morgan/Peace dollars, etal., was common pocket change for an adult.
  • coinman420coinman420 Posts: 4,666 ✭
    30 years starting in 1976
    my ebay items BST transactions/swaps/giveaways with: Tiny, raycyca,mrpaseo, Dollar2007,Whatafind, Boom, packers88, DBSTrader2, 19Lyds, Mar327, pontiacinf, ElmerFusterpuck.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,179 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Started in '75. Only bought the occasional Mint product in high school & college. Started picking up steam again in '90.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • librtyheadlibrtyhead Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭
    started.1969..............image......................image ................they made a "special" moon landing coin............back when star trek was cool!
  • joecheckjoecheck Posts: 533
    Since 1998! An elderly lady paid me (I owned my own store) in silver quarters and Mercury dimes. I ran after her casino bus to give them back, figuring it was an accident. But, she said it was not an accident and she showed me a very large bag of similar coins that she was going to pump into slot machines in Atlantic City. In retrospect, I should have bought them all from her. But, back then I had little knowledge of coins and was just impressed to have the small hoard she used to pay. I don't have them any longer but they started me off on years of collecting.
    Joe
    CONECA #N-3446
  • zippyzippy Posts: 399
    1957......FOR YRS GOT ALL MY COINS FROM change in circulation, in the early 60's finally went to a coin store & a once a yr coin show....
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    Since I was about 7 or 8, after being interested in my dad's collection which he plucked from pocket change in Puerto Rico while being stationed there in the early 1960s. I'm 40 now, so do the math...
  • keezkeez Posts: 842 ✭
    July 2005
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    Since 1968, so 36 years.
  • ElKevvoElKevvo Posts: 4,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mid 70's...
    ANA LM
  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1992

    2003-Present

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