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.
as a kid in the '80s, and then again seriously in 2002.
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Walker Proof Digital Album Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I started in '92 when I saw the Olympic Commemorative ad in TV guide, and being a paperboy helped too. Collected through Junior year in high school in '95, then added a bit after master's degree in '01 and continued to slowly add stuff until late '11. I got back into it late last year and I'm really starting to branch to the Darkside with Canadian stuff.
Although as a kid I knew to save pre '65 change, I didn't actually start collecting until 2007. I heard a friend of my wife's talk about silver as an investment one day and right about that time I accidentally opened a package for a coworker that I thought was mine and it was a small lot of Mercury dimes. Between seeing those dimes and hearing someone else talk about silver I headed to eBay, bought 1 troy pound of silver art bars at roughly $15/oz, and the rest is history ...
1958-59 when I was about 6. I remember my uncle (who wasn't a collector) suggesting to my dad that coin collecting would be a good hobby for me, so a couple days later he brought home some Whitman Lincoln Cent folders and about $5 in rolled pennies. I was off and running for a few years, although I rarely bought a coin and never found anything really valuable in circulation. Lost interest as a teenager, but after I got married, started going to antique shops and flea markets with my wife and always found myself looking at the coins. Picked it up again around 1992 and have been going ever since.
Proud recipient of the coveted "You Suck Award" (9/3/10).
From 1967 to 1972 I collected, then needed money for presents and sold a lot of Morgans, Mercs and an IHC collection. Left hobby for many years. Then after a divorce at the turn of the century with custody of two daughters, I thought they'd like it. Daughters are tough to get "into" coins. They just want hugs.
Around...1987 when I was five years old, my grandfather unloaded his first mason jar of wheaties and mercs for me to search. I've been hooked ever since.
1969 that year I got a counter stamped lincoln cent with the moon landing on it stamped on the obverse. I lost that coin someplace and wish I still had it. I still have my Grandfathers coins and my Fathers collection. Every time I look at them I get all misty eyed.
Same here. Tricky Dick's first term. My first coin was a 1938 Jefferson Nickel from change. When I realized that it was the first date in the series, I figured this would be a real easy set to complete. Ha! Big brother gave me a used Whitman Deluxe coin album to put that '38 Nickel in and I've been hooked ever since.
Cheers!
Kirk
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I remember going to the bank and getting rolls of cents in the 5th grade. This would have been 1958 and 59. I had my Whitman Blue Folder before that so probably around 1956 or 57. I would have been 7 or 8 years old.
Ron
Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
And here is the coin that started it all, back on that fondly-remembered bygone day.
I still have it.
Found it in Grandmomma's silverware drawer when I set the table for Thanksgiving dinner.
(There was a '43 steelie in the drawer too, and a '48-D Frankie that had been shot with a bullet.)
PS- I think I got this one for my 11th birthday, at the end of that same year. That would have been December 28, 1976. Over the decades, my collection has ebbed and flowed and coins have come and gone, but I still have these two remaining from my childhood collection.
1962 or 63 as a kid and then lost interest as as a teen when more carnal interests engulfed my psyche... Then again in 2006 after I inherited some coins and my carnal interests began to wane a dash
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Christmas week, 1959. I stared with the 13th edition of the Red Book and the two Whitman Lincoln cent folders.
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 ... ?
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Same here. Tricky Dick's first term. My first coin was a 1938 Jefferson Nickel from change. When I realized that it was the first date in the series, I figured this would be a real easy set to complete. Ha! Big brother gave me a used Whitman Deluxe coin album to put that '38 Nickel in and I've been hooked ever since.
Cheers!
Kirk
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Ron
November 25, 1976, to be precise.
And here is the coin that started it all, back on that fondly-remembered bygone day.
I still have it.
Found it in Grandmomma's silverware drawer when I set the table for Thanksgiving dinner.
(There was a '43 steelie in the drawer too, and a '48-D Frankie that had been shot with a bullet.)
PS- I think I got this one for my 11th birthday, at the end of that same year. That would have been December 28, 1976. Over the decades, my collection has ebbed and flowed and coins have come and gone, but I still have these two remaining from my childhood collection.
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
<< <i>1962 or 63 as a kid >>
Same here, I was 4 and my Dad and his oldest brother were heavily into collecting.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!