<<<< I also remember when clad quarters first came out ant everyone thought they were neat looking. >>
Everyone has a different perspective. When my uncle saw them, he was convinced that the country was headed to hell. I was 16 years old and got my license !!!! >>
I remember when they first came out. The banks were protecting them from collectors who would take them out of circulation. It took me a few attempts to get one. In the meant time a gentleman at work had a 25 th anniversary party. The bank suggested giving him $25 in the new quarters. This was done. He wouldn't give me any either.
1970, dabbled as a kid for a few years, maybe 1981-83. Jumped back in around 1998 and started lurking here by 2000. The changes I've seen have been talked about a million times on these boards. It always comes back to the same basic principles of most collectables: knowledge is power, you can never replace originality, its about the individual item/coin-not the slabbed grade, etc.
This board has been very helpful in identifying and analyzing the changes.
I remember when they first came out. The banks were protecting them from collectors who would take them out of circulation. It took me a few attempts to get one. In the meant time a gentleman at work had a 25 th anniversary party. The bank suggested giving him $25 in the new quarters. This was done. He wouldn't give me any either. >>
I hated the clads and what they represented. Even more I hated that they would drive the older coins out of circulation. To add insult to injury the government and mint were doing everything in their power to kill coin collecting and even went so far as to draft legislation that would make it illegal.
It was a bleak time and the end of an era because their actions worked and there were almost no new collectors until the states quarters were proposed.
I remember when they first came out. The banks were protecting them from collectors who would take them out of circulation. It took me a few attempts to get one. In the meant time a gentleman at work had a 25 th anniversary party. The bank suggested giving him $25 in the new quarters. This was done. He wouldn't give me any either. >>
As much as I hated everything about clads when I finally got my first one around Thanksgiving in 1965 it was a really well made example. It didn't seem quite so bad any more. Well made quarters were mostly what I saw the first few weeks and then almost all of them were horrid poorly struck examples from worn dies and this persisted to a greater or lesser extent until 1970.
Late 50's Dad owned a Mobil Gas Station so I got to go thru the cash drawer all the time. Open the new change rolls for the cash register from the bank and found some nice circulated and un- circulated coins in my younger years. Always a a Red Book at the station so I could look them all up ASAP. Boy what I wouldn't give to go back just a day or two LOL.
Born in the late 50's. Went into a New York coin shop at about 6 with Mom and Pop and bought a Liberty Head nickel.
Pulled 90% Silver out of circulation with Dad in 64 thru about 66'. The Brinks drivers came up with the clear plastic coin rolls about them.
Most change: TPG then grade inflation ( Which was probably the correct thing to do IMHO) TPG graders wouldn't go much higher than a 65 in the early days for some real GEM coins.
Born in the late 1960's, so never saw circulating silver, the bicentennial coins and then the SBA started an interest in numismatics, fed by grandparents who gave me their few rolls of junk silver saved from circulation, and a few silver dollars and foreign coins and a piggy bank of wheat cents, which led to picking up CoinAge magazine at the newsstand and trips to local coin shops on weekends with my dad (no one else in the family was or is a collector, to this day) Put together a decent type set of <$100 coins by using lawn mowing, pool care, and house painting money, and by selling most of the junk silver in 1979-1981. Put the collection away when money started to go to pizzas, video games, and later gasoline, dating, etc. Sold some more duplicates along the way to fund a few ski trips and spring breaks during high school and college, only bought a couple coins. Never found much silver or other good coins in circulation, a bit of half dollar roll searching and the occasional silver and wheat find got put aside in the early days, it's been years now since such a find in my change.
Took the usual break from age 14- 24 or so, during high school and college, and missed the beginnings of certification and the big boom/bust in '89-92, but by the late 1990's had some extra income for hobbies and seriously took up skiing, scuba diving, and coin collecting again, by then the internet and ebay was going, the state quarters were starting to appear to liven up my change, and I could easily find all the "next level" coins I wanted for my US type set online, which was a huge change from the local coin stores, which rarely had nice capped bust coins, or draped bust anything. From 2002-2008 I was a very active buyer, focusing on my type coins and sets of early quarters and half dollars. The big changes I noticed were all the NCLT bullion coins, the amazing number of modern commems, and of course third party grading, and especially this forum, which has been the most enjoyable part of collecting, especially since now new aquisitions have slowed to one or two a year, because they're so difficult to afford as the dates start with 179- or 180-, most will have to wait until after retirement someday.
I do think that there is a next generation of collectors, that put together sets of state quarters and built small collections, that will put them away to play with their video games and go out with their friends, and some subset will come back to coins when they're established in their careers and want to take their sets to "the next level"
<< <i>What decade was your birth and please tell us the significant changes you've become aware in the field of coin collecting? Your memories? >>
1960's for me. Started collecting in 1972 after a classmate gave me a couple extra wheatback cents from a Whitman folder he had brought to school. Somehow that lit the coin collecting bug in me and I've been steadily at it since. The biggest changes for me have been the introduction of 3rd party grading and the internet. Without either, I can't even see how my collection would have grown to what it has become today. The other thing I have noticed is that the coins section in bookstores (another endangered breed) is quite a bit larger than the other hobby stuff and it does seem to sell. Maybe that is a sign for its future, or maybe not.
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Everyone has a different perspective. When my uncle saw them, he was convinced that the country was headed to hell. I was 16 years old and got my license !!!! >>
I remember when they first came out. The banks were protecting them from collectors who would take them out of circulation. It took me a few attempts to get one.
In the meant time a gentleman at work had a 25 th anniversary party. The bank suggested giving him $25 in the new quarters. This was done. He wouldn't give me any either.
This board has been very helpful in identifying and analyzing the changes.
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I remember when they first came out. The banks were protecting them from collectors who would take them out of circulation. It took me a few attempts to get one.
In the meant time a gentleman at work had a 25 th anniversary party. The bank suggested giving him $25 in the new quarters. This was done. He wouldn't give me any either. >>
I hated the clads and what they represented. Even more I hated that they would
drive the older coins out of circulation. To add insult to injury the government and
mint were doing everything in their power to kill coin collecting and even went so far
as to draft legislation that would make it illegal.
It was a bleak time and the end of an era because their actions worked and there
were almost no new collectors until the states quarters were proposed.
Times change.
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I remember when they first came out. The banks were protecting them from collectors who would take them out of circulation. It took me a few attempts to get one.
In the meant time a gentleman at work had a 25 th anniversary party. The bank suggested giving him $25 in the new quarters. This was done. He wouldn't give me any either. >>
As much as I hated everything about clads when I finally got my first one
around Thanksgiving in 1965 it was a really well made example. It didn't
seem quite so bad any more. Well made quarters were mostly what I saw
the first few weeks and then almost all of them were horrid poorly struck
examples from worn dies and this persisted to a greater or lesser extent
until 1970.
Bust Half & FSB Merc Collector
Pulled 90% Silver out of circulation with Dad in 64 thru about 66'. The Brinks drivers came up with the clear plastic coin rolls about them.
Most change: TPG then grade inflation ( Which was probably the correct thing to do IMHO) TPG graders wouldn't go much higher than a 65 in the early days for some real GEM coins.
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Never found much silver or other good coins in circulation, a bit of half dollar roll searching and the occasional silver and wheat find got put aside in the early days, it's been years now since such a find in my change.
Took the usual break from age 14- 24 or so, during high school and college, and missed the beginnings of certification and the big boom/bust in '89-92, but by the late 1990's had some extra income for hobbies and seriously took up skiing, scuba diving, and coin collecting again, by then the internet and ebay was going, the state quarters were starting to appear to liven up my change, and I could easily find all the "next level" coins I wanted for my US type set online, which was a huge change from the local coin stores, which rarely had nice capped bust coins, or draped bust anything. From 2002-2008 I was a very active buyer, focusing on my type coins and sets of early quarters and half dollars. The big changes I noticed were all the NCLT bullion coins, the amazing number of modern commems, and of course third party grading, and especially this forum, which has been the most enjoyable part of collecting, especially since now new aquisitions have slowed to one or two a year, because they're so difficult to afford as the dates start with 179- or 180-, most will have to wait until after retirement someday.
I do think that there is a next generation of collectors, that put together sets of state quarters and built small collections, that will put them away to play with their video games and go out with their friends, and some subset will come back to coins when they're established in their careers and want to take their sets to "the next level"
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<< <i>What decade was your birth and please tell us the significant changes you've become aware in the field of coin collecting? Your memories? >>
1960's for me. Started collecting in 1972 after a classmate gave me a couple extra wheatback cents from a Whitman folder he had brought to school. Somehow that lit the coin collecting bug in me and I've been steadily at it since. The biggest changes for me have been the introduction of 3rd party grading and the internet. Without either, I can't even see how my collection would have grown to what it has become today. The other thing I have noticed is that the coins section in bookstores (another endangered breed) is quite a bit larger than the other hobby stuff and it does seem to sell. Maybe that is a sign for its future, or maybe not.
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