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Calvinhardiman
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What made you start collecting? For me my grandparents bought me a 50 state coin book. I forgot about it for years and just the past year started collecting them but now I can't stop any coin that catches my eye (with value or not) I have to keep it.
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I don’t really remember what got me started, A few years ago I did community service for school at a collectibles shop. The shop owner by the name of Brad was kinda like a mentor to me on how to collect coins 👍
I really got started after the stock market bust about 10 years ago, with silver coins, then I got into Pcgs graded Coins while filling a dansco album. When my proof 1951 Nickel turned out to be a ddo, I decided not to break it out of the slab. I was hooked.
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=142753
https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/
A fun activity to share with my grandparents. Searching thru pocket change to fill holes in my Whitman folders......... Walks thru Center City Philly down to "Smelter's Row" to search for dates thru coffee cans of "melt" silver dimes & quarters (if only I'd been smart enough back then at 4x face to search for halves & dollars!!!)........ Something to share with them first & then my own kids later.............
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It all started in middle school. A kid in my Language Arts class was a collector and brought in a couple coins... Shield & Liberty nickels, if I remember correctly. A few days later, he brought a few Indian cents in. I quickly traded my lunch money for one. From seeing the different designs and my interest in the historical aspect, a new collector was born. While the passion ebbed and flowed over the years, it really set in @ mid 1990's. Since then, I've really honed in on specific areas of U.S. coinage... particularly in early and Carolina branch mint gold.
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As a young boy, my dad showed me his coin collection and explained dates, mint marks, and how coin folders worked. Something about collecting clicked. I would look through his Red Book, and he explained how to grade and find the estimated value. He got me my own folder and I started a penny collection of my own. From that point on I have always looked at dates on coins and collected whatever seemed different, rare, or uncommon. That started in the 60s -- when one could find in change Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, Standing Liberty quarters, an Walking and Franklin halves.
My strategy is about collecting what I intend to keep, not investing in what I plan to sell.
I had a job years ago working a cash register and started pulling Wheat pennies out of the drawer. That is what got me hooked!
References: ChrisRx, Gerard, commoncents05, jrt103, jfoot13 & JohnT58
I love the state quarters.
I just spent over 2 grand on 8 state quarters
That would be a tough set to build, mint error of each date mm.
Indeed!
Been collecting for years and I think the more you do the more you like. Enjoy.
Started in 1958 or 1959 as a paper boy looking through the change I received from my customers Saturday mornings. All the dimes, quarters and halves were silver back then.
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I agree with @tommy44 ... I started as a paper boy as well - though a few years earlier
and I have liked coins since then. True, due to my travels/work, I had a few years in which I did not collect any coins.... but the interest was always there. Cheers, RickO
7th/8th grade
Newspaper route
I'd collect the 30 cents for 6 days of papers on thursdays/fridays and after i squared up with my mgr saturday i'd keep plugging holes in my cent, nickel and dime Whitmans.
Quarters and halves were heavy dust at that time and I couldn't afford to collect them.
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
I also started with state quarters coin book. Now moving to state quarter errors though.
You will find many paperboys on this forum. On my route I had a customer that used to have a small table by the door, so when I'd come to collect he'd pull out a small drawer and there would be lots of change in it. He would pay me always in change, and at the time I think it was like between a dollar or a buck and a half when I'd collect. He would usually give me a half dollar in with the other stuff. I thought that was so very cool that he had a drawer FULL OF MONEY! I tried my damnedest to be able to keep one of those halves as profit for the week. I still collect Kennedy halves to this day. My mom ran a book she called "Credit" and was like my banker, and she'd let me keep anything odd or unusual out of the account, so it would find it's way into a band aid can and that was the start my first coin collection. When I turned 12 she took me to the bank and I opened my own checking account and then I was able to pay for my papers from that account rather than her "credit book". I had brothers in the Navy and older sisters that dated guys that went overseas during the Vietnam era and they'd bring me back foreign coins and currency. Those I kept in a Lucky Strike tin.