LordM Giveaway #158 (50th Anniversary)
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LordM Giveaway #158 (50th Anniversary)
Contest status: OPEN
Drawing: pending; on or after 26 November 2026 (Thanksgiving)
Winner: pending
Shipping status: pending
Winner's receipt: pending
Hello, everybody. Welcome to my 50th anniversary giveaway, which also coincides with Thanksgiving 2026.
On November 25th, 1976, when I was just a month shy of my 11th birthday, we were visiting my step-grandmother's big old house in Atlanta for Thanksgiving. Asked to set the table for the upcoming feast, I discovered a 1936 dime in Grandmama's silverware drawer in the sideboard. She let me keep it, and that coin launched my passion for numismatics. I still have it somewhere. So now, on Thanksgiving of 2026, I will celebrate 50 years as a collector. Another giveaway is in order, I suppose.
Now, the prizes.
There are two items (4 coins total), all of which the winner of the drawing will receive.
First, to celebrate the year I began collecting, we have:
Item #1 of 2: a 1976 Bicentennial 3-piece silver proof set.
Includes the Bicentennial quarter, half, and dollar, in original US Mint packaging. Not the best pictures below. Sorry. I saved 'em from the eBay seller I bought the set from.
Addtionally, to celebrate the coin that started my collection 50 years ago, we have:
Item #2 of 2: a 1936-D Mercury dime.
Circulated, but in higher grade. The one I found in 1976 is a Philly mint and this one is from Denver, but it is in better condition than my childhood find.
To enter the drawing:
Just describe what got you into collecting coins.
In as few or as many words as you desire. If you have a story about that, or a photo of your first coin, so much the better.
This contest is a clone of the one on CoinTalk. All entries made here will be copied and pasted over there. The final drawing will be done from the posts in the CoinTalk thread. (In other words, contestants from both sites will be in the same drawing- over there- but I will announce the results here.)
The drawing will be done via random number generator sometime on or after the date mentioned at the top of this post. The timing will depend on my schedule. You may consider the contest open for entries until such time as I have posted the final result of the drawing.
Totally free: the contest is free of charge, open to everyone, with free worldwide shipping. The only further requirement is...
If you win, please post a notice of receipt in this thread after you get the prize, so we'll know you got it (that helps me keep track).
Good luck!
Numismatic regards,
~Robertson ("Rob") Shinnick ("LordM")
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Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Comments
Early 60’s my friend told me to start saving silver coins. That got me the bug even though silver coins were not in my pre teenage budget.
I got into collecting when I was young as well 7 to be exact. My dad use to buy storage sheds and resale the goods. He would let me help dig through and sort stuff and I discovered a box of foreign coins couple hundred different ones. By the time I was 18 had amassed a decent amount of coins and sports cards considering I had been working since I was 13 and spent every dime on those two things spent a lot of time at local card shop and coin shop. Then my parents had become addicted to OxyContin and stole everything I had collected and traded it all for drugs. So I quit collecting at that point then my mother not a month later when I came back to get anything I had left behind after I had left when they stole from me she tried to run me over and then burned down my child hood home with our family pictures because they ran out of the drugs. So needless to say I didn’t speak to them again till my dad was sick from cancer 6 years later. Flash forward tweenty years ironically my daughter finds a single old coin that my dad ended up giving me before he died in 2010 that he had found near the train tracks in Columbus Ohio. A 1826 large cent she was so surprised Pennys was so big and that is what got her interested and she got me back into collecting it’s really been a lot of fun collecting with her. Don’t have anything like you guys but hope to before it’s time to pass it on. That’s my story. It’s been quiet the journey to say the least. Had she not found that I probably would never collected another coin the rest of my life. I’m glad she did.
Here is the coin. Also congratulations on you 50 years of collecting that is a long time.
Oops, I forgot to add the “spokescritter” (usually I accompany all my giveaways with a pet picture).
In that case, this contest is brought to you by 1976 me. Seems appropriate, given the occasion.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
CONGRATULATIONS!
My interest in coin collecting was stimulated by finding a few Barber Dimes and Quarters in circulation as a kid in the 1940s, and by inheriting a few large cents from grandparents.
I also remember walking into a bank with my parents. Some of the tellers kept a jar on the counter at their window which contained a few silver dollars. Anyone could exchange a dollar bill for one!
I received a half dollar while i was trick or treating in the neighborhood in the mid 70's. I don't remember if it was silver but the coin collecting bug had been born in me. I reckon that I am right around 50 years as a collector as well.
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I found a 1850 Canadian half cent by a foundation of a New England general store .... that was about 50 years ago . I have been intrigued ever since .
My Father collected coins and got me into the hobby when I was a child.
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Brother got me interested via the Whitman cent holders. Walked me down to the local hobby shop to get them. Then proceeded to bother everyone to look at their change.
The amount of contests you do is amazing! Thank you!
Who got me into coin collecting was my great grandfather who gave me the first coins in my collection. I never stopped from there!
I remember tagging along with my dad in coin shops, antique stores, and flea markets while he hunted for nice Morgans. I eventually started buying my own and remember buying a proof 1963 dime as kid and thinking it was so cool. Still have it. Still think it's cool.
I have fun with ‘em. I’m not made of money, so I can’t do as many as I’d really love to do, or give away expensive stuff, but I must say, I often enjoy adding something to someone else’s collection this way just as much as I do adding something to my own collection.
PS- I should also add that I have been the recipient of just as much generosity- on these forums and on CoinTalk- over the last quarter-century, so really I’m only just “paying it forward”.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
In the late 1960s I had an older brother who talked my parents into buying a bunch of rolls of dimes to check for silver. I found a few and it started my collection. I messed around with them for a while then forgot about them as I got older. One day I was out at my town dump and saw a box of old kids books from the 1920s, which I grabbed for my wife, a preschool teacher. When she was going through them she started to find Indian cents which led her to say "what are these things with Indians on them?". There were about 20 or so in there. I looked at them and it got me interested in coins again. That lead me to this forum and I'm back collecting.
Jim
In the mid 70's, I remember my brother and I digging through the trunks of stuff my grandfather had collected through the years. The basement was half full of old trunks full of stuff. He collected everything from old fountain pens to locks, keys, shackles and civil war memorabilia; Confederate/Yankee uniforms, hats, swords, belt buckles, etc. I remember my brother and I would dress up in the uniforms and play sword fight. It's amazing we didn't cut of any digits or other things!
Anyway, needless to say, he also had extensive coin and stamp collections. Both from all over the world. Just seeing all of those old gold and silver coins was mesmerizing to me and I have been hooked ever since. Unfortunately, when he passed in the mid 80's, my Grandma sold off all of it and moved from Wichita, KS to Dallas. In hindsight, she sold off a fortune in collectibles and I have been trying to recreate it ever since!
Gary TheGasMan - Retired Hank Hill
In 1970’s my grandfather had a quart liquor bottle filled with mercury dimes an one seated dime.. he let me keep some mercury dimes and the one seated dime
Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA
I was born into a long line of not-quite hoarders, but to folks who always collected "stuff". My grandparents would give me old bottles and musket balls etc... from their land in the low-country of South Carolina and my father had a small coin collection.
I got into collecting as a 17 year old working at Dominos Pizza when I found an 1859 IHC in the change I was given. It was beat up, scarred, and cleaned to within an inch of it's life and was passed as a dime. Still have that old thing after nearly 40 years.
Thanks for the chance!