You Suck! Awarded 6/2008- 1901-O Micro O Morgan, 8/2008- 1878 VAM-123 Morgan, 9/2022 1888-O VAM-1B3 H8 Morgan | Senior Regional Representative- ANACS Coin Grading. Posted opinions on coins are my own, and are not an official ANACS opinion.
Started with a tip from my paper route. Was out collecting and got a Oregon State Commemortive (.50). My Dad took me to the library to see what we could find out on the coin and was hooked from that day on. The year was 1957 or 8. bob
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Cladking, I never would have thunk! After all these years of collecting, your interest remains in the more modern series. Why haven't you gravitated, like many others, to the older series? Inquiring minds want to know!
Some refer to overgraded slabs as Coffins. I like to think of them as Happy Coins.
Started in 1963 at age 7 (when my dad gave a Whitman Roosevelt dime album that I filled from circulation, still have it) and continued through 1974 when I graduated from high school. 11 years. During college 74-78, only a little bit so these four years count as 1 year. Started again in July, 1998 and have not stopped. About 8.5 years ago. The total is thus 20.5 years out of my 51 years.
I have got to admit that even though I like the coins I collected as a kid (some I really like), I like the coins I have collected over the past 8.5 years even more and I have been having much more hobby fun as an adult collector.
started on baseball cards as a kid. moved to comics then to coins. I got off coins for a while. Then i started collectin money "not in a collecting sense" and got in touch with a childhood passion. My father is an incredible 50's vinyl collector with his focus on Elvis, The Beatles and 50's rock. My mother hates us. My fiance secretly hates it <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/oldattachments/ACFEE2.jpg">
--- If it ain't about the money lord knows i've gone insane
I'm blaming the US Mint, but I've been accumulating since 1984. Later branched out into Morgans & Peace .. made a tidy profit when I sold them (All PCGS graded MS64+) About 2002 started to concentrate on the Modern PCGS Certified stuff .. Lots more buyers on eBay for that junk....as long as it certified by PCGS, it will almost guarantee you a tidy profit ...
"Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
Cladking, I never would have thunk! After all these years of collecting, your interest remains in the more modern series. Why haven't you gravitated, like many others, to the older series? Inquiring minds want to know! >>
Moderns weren't invented yet when I started.
I liked the buffalo nickels because of the design and that they were obsolete. It was tough collecting from pocket change in those days because all the coins were prescreened by millions of other collectors and you could find only their castoffs. So I started collecting large cents and indian cents but of course these had to be purchased and the dealers sold the good ones for a lot more. When the clad came out things seemed to go from bad to worse and then the date freeze made them worst.
As the years went by I started collecting more stuff and watched as the coins in circu- lation got more and more interesting. I started collecting them in '72 and then special- izing in them in 1996. I still collect world coins, tokens, and medals but spend most of my time on the moderns.
I started promoting the clads back in '86.
I sometimes clainm to be the third clad collector after RS Yeoman and John J Pittman, but in actuality there are, no doubt many others in front of me.
I traded in my coin collection (10 Liberty Head Nickels and a couple IHCs) for a kid's stamp collection when I was 12. Here I am 20 years later making up for that error in judgement - 4 years now.
Like coinnut, I started at age 7, but that was 1943, 64 years ago.
Also, like others, I had to take a hiatus beginning in 1960 to raise my family. Began again 2 years ago, total of 19 active years, to rebuild 3 sets, Lincolns, Indians & Liberty nickels, which I sold when things got a little tough. Got that done and just kept going with the others upgrading to better condition. JT
It is health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi.
I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
<< <i>Since I was 9 in 1971. Back then, I still could not find silver in my bank rolls.
It keeps getting worse and worse as the years go by. I"m now a stickler for original coins. >>
Same year 8 y.o.a. First coin was a 1938 Jefferson Nickel that I got in change from the neighborhood gas station/everything store. This was before the 7/11, Quiki-Mart thing. Put that nickel in a Withman Deluxe album. Because it filled the very first slot it made me think that collecting by date/mint would be so easy. I've been chasing that concept in collecting ever since.
What a hobby!
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About a year and a half... guess I'm the biggest rookie in the room. Decided to gain more knowledge about the hobby before throwing away anymore $. (first purchases were about 10 average proof sets for around $10 each, don't care for them now)
<< <i>About a year and a half... guess I'm the biggest rookie in the room. Decided to gain more knowledge about the hobby before throwing away anymore $. (first purchases were about 10 average proof sets for around $10 each, don't care for them now) >>
yeah i think i may have you beat...been about 5 months for me, since thats when my mother gave me her collection, before that i just collected anything and everything related the "The Doors" or Jim Morrison.
Since 1968 at the tender age of 8 years old...started with a roll of wheat cents and a blue Whitman folder. I still have the tube of cents and the folder.
1966 - 41 years ago. The original Star Trek made its TV debut that year to give you a perspective on how long that has been around.
Those were the days...... when I wish I had enough money to actually buy coins instead of only saving them from circulation at face value.
I remember Coin World ads from Wayne Miller in Cut Bank, Montana selling common date BU Morgan dollars for $2.50 each!!!! Oh the missed opportunities.....oh well. Nearly everything was a bargain compared with today except perhaps 1950-D nickels.
Got about 40 years of collecting under my belt also, and like Mozin, I went thru the Corvette phase too, so coins have been high and low on my agenda depending on the time.
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Commemortive (.50). My Dad took me to the library to see what we could find out
on the coin and was hooked from that day on. The year was 1957 or 8.
bob
They call me "Pack the Ripper"
Some really great times and some, I don't wish to talk about.
<< <i>This is my 50th year.
Cladking, I never would have thunk! After all these years of collecting, your interest remains in the more modern series. Why haven't you gravitated, like many others, to the older series? Inquiring minds want to know!
Started in 1963 at age 7 (when my dad gave a Whitman Roosevelt dime album that I filled from circulation, still have it) and continued through 1974 when I graduated from high school. 11 years. During college 74-78, only a little bit so these four years count as 1 year. Started again in July, 1998 and have not stopped. About 8.5 years ago. The total is thus 20.5 years out of my 51 years.
I have got to admit that even though I like the coins I collected as a kid (some I really like), I like the coins I have collected over the past 8.5 years even more and I have been having much more hobby fun as an adult collector.
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If it ain't about the money lord knows i've gone insane
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<< <i>This is my 50th year.
Cladking, I never would have thunk! After all these years of collecting, your interest remains in the more modern series. Why haven't you gravitated, like many others, to the older series? Inquiring minds want to know! >>
Moderns weren't invented yet when I started.
I liked the buffalo nickels because of the design and that they were obsolete. It
was tough collecting from pocket change in those days because all the coins were
prescreened by millions of other collectors and you could find only their castoffs.
So I started collecting large cents and indian cents but of course these had to be
purchased and the dealers sold the good ones for a lot more. When the clad came
out things seemed to go from bad to worse and then the date freeze made them worst.
As the years went by I started collecting more stuff and watched as the coins in circu-
lation got more and more interesting. I started collecting them in '72 and then special-
izing in them in 1996. I still collect world coins, tokens, and medals but spend most of
my time on the moderns.
I started promoting the clads back in '86.
I sometimes clainm to be the third clad collector after RS Yeoman and John J Pittman,
but in actuality there are, no doubt many others in front of me.
My Odds&Ends eBay Stuff to fuel my coin habit (No Coins)
Also, like others, I had to take a hiatus beginning in 1960 to raise my family.
Began again 2 years ago, total of 19 active years, to rebuild 3 sets, Lincolns, Indians & Liberty nickels,
which I sold when things got a little tough. Got that done and just kept going with the others upgrading
to better condition.
JT
I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
If I had it my way, stupidity would be painful!
<< <i>Since I was 9 in 1971. Back then, I still could not find silver in my bank rolls.
It keeps getting worse and worse as the years go by. I"m now a stickler for original coins. >>
Same year 8 y.o.a. First coin was a 1938 Jefferson Nickel that I got in change from the neighborhood gas station/everything store. This was before the 7/11, Quiki-Mart thing. Put that nickel in a Withman Deluxe album. Because it filled the very first slot it made me think that collecting by date/mint would be so easy. I've been chasing that concept in collecting ever since.
What a hobby!
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Russ, NCNE >>
Smoebodies' parents bought their ciggies by the case, huh?
I've been afflicted for over 40 years.
Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1
<< <i>About a year and a half... guess I'm the biggest rookie in the room.
yeah i think i may have you beat...been about 5 months for me, since thats when my mother gave me her collection, before that i just collected anything and everything related the "The Doors" or Jim Morrison.
My parents got me the Whitman Blue Books for Lincolns.
They didn`t realize what type of Monster they had created.
actually collected as a teenager and got back into it about 10 years ago!
myCCset
Ankur
PCGS Registries
Box of 20
SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
<< <i>Smoebodies' parents bought their ciggies by the case, huh? >>
Maybe those were mine.
Russ, NCNE
TC71
Those were the days...... when I wish I had enough money to actually buy coins instead of only saving them from circulation
at face value.
I remember Coin World ads from Wayne Miller in Cut Bank, Montana selling common date BU Morgan dollars for $2.50 each!!!!
Oh the missed opportunities.....oh well. Nearly everything was a bargain compared with today except perhaps 1950-D nickels.
Started to heavily collect maybe 2 years ago. Not many high grade/quality coins but I have fun.
Total time: 2.5 years or so.
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Negative BST: NONE!