Did either of your Parents collect coins or paper money?

Sentimental items? Gold handed down? excluding common change...
I'll start: My Mother saved mostly silver dollars over many years from circulation and had saved about 150 dollars which I still have. Nothing rare that I found mostly circulated dollars but a nice rememberance anyway.
She also left me many paper money that we didn't know much about way back and even some National Currency and also some Silver Certificates and even some error notes one is a printed fold over.
Sometimes a nice teller would say to her "Are you sure you don't want to keep this" this really started her collecting the notes.
I'll start: My Mother saved mostly silver dollars over many years from circulation and had saved about 150 dollars which I still have. Nothing rare that I found mostly circulated dollars but a nice rememberance anyway.
She also left me many paper money that we didn't know much about way back and even some National Currency and also some Silver Certificates and even some error notes one is a printed fold over.
Sometimes a nice teller would say to her "Are you sure you don't want to keep this" this really started her collecting the notes.
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Sentimental? Very much so...the first for me and the last to go.
Miles
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Dad had a rough life, and only had a third grade education. His father ( my grandfather), died in 1906 after being dragged by a team of runaway horses.
Our family was dirt poor. There wasn't any money for this sort of thing.
I started work at age 11, and I began collecting coins at 13. Just the stuff from circulation there in the 1950's.
Ray
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My parents owned a small retail store. They saved coins for me that looked different to them. They also and circulated silver $ and $2 bills. I would work after school in the store and check the cash register for new finds. They introduced me to the local banker and I was allowed to sit in the SD box viewing room in summers and Saturday mornings and review rolls of coins. I still have the entire childhood collection.
Naturally I asked to look through the silver, but the family did not repond well. They deny the existance, don't know where they are, hidden in a box somewhere, the safe is locked and they dont know the combination. Each person had a different story about the stash. I gonna take out the metal detector and go over the property and see what I can dig up.
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<< <i>Did either of your Parents collect coins or paper money? >>
Nope.
To tell you how they thought about it, (and how utterly stupid I was!) I got a Canadian half dollar in change when I was a little kid maybe 8 or 9 years old. I asked my father where I could put it to keep it safe (I thought it was the coolest coin I'd ever seen at that time!), and he said "the bank". So he took me to the bank where I had a little savings account and I deposited it. A couple of weeks later, I went to the bank to look at my coin, and I was appalled when they told me they didn't have it
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Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
My dad used to give me foreign coins that his co-workers would give to him. I remember spending hours looking at them, trying to figure out where they were from, etc. I think that is what planted the seed.
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He wasn't much of a collector, but he saw that i enjoyed it, and he supported me 100%.
He would take me to shows and help me organize our collection. It was a great bonding experience.
For the record, this collection will never be sold...so don't PM me
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My Uncle saved me Kennedy's when I was small, and my Mom has always saved 2 dollar bills.
But they wheren't really collectors.
My grandparents did have some old coins and currency that was passed down to me.
Morgans, Peace, Buffalos, Mercs, and Wheaties. Plus a few Silver Certificates.
They will go to my kids (who show some interest).
I had another grandfather, buy marrage, that also collected coins. He was an alcoholic that absolutely despised me. It didnt help that I actually had to live with the guy for seventeen years. He enjoyed carrying around a pouch of coins and showing them off to people. One day they turned up missing. Since I was the only person in the house that collected coins and he hated me with a passion, I caught all h*#% for it. From that day, until the day I moved out (about five years) he layed into me about those coins. About five years after I left home, he died from esophageal cancer. My grandmother was cleaning out the bathroom a couple of weeks later, and found a dried out leather pouch cracked with time with his coins in them. He had misplaced them and never found them. The following time that I visited, she gave me the pouch of coins and said that no one deserved them more than me. To this date, they remain my most costly coins. I still have every one, about seven years after I received them. The current market value.... about $30.
David
<< <i>My dad would buy me a $20 Lib or Saint back in 1959 or 1960. I still have them. The price is still on the flip $39.95. >>
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When we turned 18, Dad gave us the books to do whatever we wished. I'm pretty sure I was the only kid who kept them for very long. I finished the Wheats and sold the set about 15 years ago.
He also bought us each a mint set each year.
Memories... I remember going to Freddie Scholls(?) coin shop in Syracuse once a month to sell date rolls of wheats. He had one of those display cases where you push a button and the trays rolled around. Another shop I barely recall was Sheldon Moses. What I remember there was being amazed at how he could find anything!
We belonged to the Oneida Coin Club. Met in the basement of the municipal building and afterward we'd go to either DanDee donuts or the Softserve ice cream place.
Huh. I'm suprised I remember these things.
Today, my father collects the state quarters and is putting together rolls from circulation for each state at each mint. He also buys the proof sets every year. My own state quarter collection is quite a bit more complete as it is comprised of mint set quarters, silver proofs and regular proofs (Though I'm missing the 1999 silver proof quarters.
I've seen most of the coins and none are numismatically valuable.
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My Dad was in the Navy when I was a kid (late 50s-60s). He did give me foreign coins from his travels, though. I then drove a currency exchange in New York City nuts when I would get in line and dump coins from a bunch of European countries on the shelf. The exchange guy was nice enough to convert the Lira, Franks, etc., into US currency. Usually it amounted to about $3 or so. I was also advised (warned?) not to do this anymore as "someone else in the bank might not be so accommodating".
My Mother gave me a 1909 2 1/2 dollar Indian Head gold piece that belonged to my grandmother. I still have it and am holding it for my son.
My Uncle Jim, on the other hand, got me started in coin collecting. And stamp collecting. The neat thing was that he worked for the NYC Transit Authority and would set aside scarce coins and sell them to dealers at night. He worked on the 3-11 shift and made a nice chunk of change doing that. He also set aside some coins I needed and some that he collected.
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were lost or otherwise dispersed when I was young. My father was a natural collector but
had relatively little interest in coins. He still has a small accumulation of mostly large cents
and early nickels but it's junk. He collected stamps as a child and tools after he retired. His
collection was really quite impressive. He did collect three legged buffaloes as a contest
with his schoolmates.
My dad's brother had a small accumulation of medals which he gave me when he got older.
Ken