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Nature or nurture?

DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
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Were you introduced to coin collecting by a friend or family member who collected? Or did you happen upon the hobby yourself?

I was hooked after my brother gave me a 1937 Buffalo nickel.

I wonder how many collectors were NOT introduced by someone they knew. Maybe by reading a newspaper article and looking up more information and going from there, or finding an old coin in a piggy bank and taking it to a coin shop, or answering an ad in the back of Boy's Life, or moving from stamps to coins, or some other means.

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  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    Shop-at-Home happened to me.
  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    my granny having me open her original bank roll indian pennies to fill her books...this 8 year old at the time was hooked
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    granny gave me coins
    coinimaging.com/my photography articles Check out the new macro lens testing section
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,546 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Happened onto the hobby myself after finding a type 1 SLQ in a park. Checked the public library for info.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    A jar of pennies, three small boys, and a Whitman folder is all it took for me!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!

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