Your collection Journey

knoxy4 · January 15, 2013 4:17PM

So as I would say I've been collecting coins for only about 6 months, and on a pretty limited budget, I was curious what sort of journey coins have taken everyone on. I can't assume that everyone started spending hundreds of thousands of dollars from the onset of you collection on rare die varieties and top pop coins. Where did you start, and what followed? Did you put together a collection of circulated pennies first and move up by denomination? Or just kinda jump around to and fro?

I personally was 'hooked' by the one ounce silver pieces. ASE, pandas, and the Canadian stuff. After buying a few ounces and learning how ebay works, I've completed a few Dansco books. In order: Ike, state and park quarters, Kennedy, and Roosevelt dimes. Currently I'm working on the Washington quarters which is my first run in with what i consider some expensive coins with 32D and what not. I know many on here have been collecting for decades compared to my few months.

Just curious to see how you have progressed in the hobby? What collection did you enjoy maybe a little more? How/when did you learn the most, or grow the most as a collector? Everyone on here has their own personal connection to the hobby, that's why we're here. What's yours?

Thanks for taking the time to read and I look forward to seeing how everyone's stories compare.

Type2 · January 15, 2013 6:14PM

I'm one of the lucky one. I jumped back in at the high in 2004 bang at some good US mint items made some fast cash and used the $$$ to buy some nice coins from the start. But i like to just collect and that is what i have fun doing picking up keys and sim keys, Nice com coins and Cherry picking. But that is just me crazy Type2.

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To the nut house...

joeykoins · January 16, 2013 1:26AM

First and foremost,

to school! You'll find what you always wanted to know and learn about coins,right here! That's why I always tell new members,Welcome To School! cause that's what this forum is,school.The only difference this school is fun,one can disagree.Anyway,6 months,and you've compiled that many sets and coins.Wow! you are well ahead of the game,I would say. When I first jumped into the pool,I started out ,like you with the Lincolns. Than,I progressed in the Silver Eagles.These coins are one of the most beautiful coins in the coin world.This ,I think is the most vital part in collecting,the variety/error point of view.If not,It would be like throwing your money away. Keep on hunting and collect what YOU want to collect! -joey

Oh yeah,my first completed set was the Indian Head (Buffalo nickles). It took approx. 1year to 2,to complete.I sold it,and made a 100$ profit.but you know what?I wished I would have never,never sold it! Oh well,this is what makes this hobby interesting,it's all up to you!

Sonorandesertrat · January 16, 2013 1:38AM

My paternal grandmother was a coin collector, and she got me hooked (even took me to my first ANA show in 1967). I bought my first gold coins (2 sovereigns) from Dave Bowers a few years later. Sold them for 2x when gold made a big jump in price, and thought coins were a route to big bucks. (Ha!) Began collecting Swiss shooting thalers, and Austrian-German silver coins when I was a teenager, later sold most of these. Re-entered the hobby after grad school, and put together a few sets (Barber halves in ChAU, Standing Liberty quarters in XF-ChAU, Liberty nickels in ChBU)---sold these in 2007. Now collecting early US mint medals, large cents, nice type coins, numismatic literature (back to the mid-19th century).

Your collection Journey

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