How Long have we Forum Members been Collecting Coins ?

ABC123 · July 17, 2006 4:54AM

35+ year collector of Morgan Dollars; Modern Gold Commemoratives since 1986

ledzep87 · July 17, 2006 4:55AM

Late December of 2005. I'm a newbie.

JustaRookie · July 17, 2006 4:56AM

Off and on for 20 years....

thecointrader · July 17, 2006 4:57AM

First got a barber quarter in change in elementary school in 1963. It was old, it was ugly, it was WAY COOL!

Been hooked ever since.

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200 Posts in Five Years but Always Lurking

Fletcher · July 17, 2006 4:57AM

Just had my first anniversary

Leiana · July 17, 2006 4:59AM

I've been collecting coins for about eight years. Only got into it seriously about two years ago.

-Amanda

Cladiator · July 17, 2006 5:00AM

Almost 3 years total. About 1 year in my specialty area.

SmallTownCoins · July 17, 2006 5:01AM

I opened my Coin Shop in 1983...Full Time Reatail... Started collecting about 15 years previous to that... It's been a good ride....so far...

DickyBetz · July 17, 2006 5:01AM

<< <i>I've been collecting coins for about eight years. Only got into it seriously about two years ago.

-Amanda >>

LanLord · July 17, 2006 5:03AM

I guess we need to do this about once a year.

I started back in the late 60s (68 or 69 I don't remember too well, it was a long time ago).

I collected seriously for a few years, then dropped out for other things.

Picked it back up in the early - mid 80s, then dropped out again.

Picked it back up in 1995 and have been fairly serious since.

cladking · July 17, 2006 5:03AM

Half a century next year. 1957.

OKbustchaser · July 17, 2006 5:04AM

Found the type 1 standing lib quarter that got me started in 1963...first coin I purchased at a premium over face was in 64. Been at it ever since.

Fairlaneman · July 17, 2006 5:04AM

1/4 of a century off and on.

Ken

DIMEMAN · July 17, 2006 5:06AM

Since 1960.

JJM · July 17, 2006 5:07AM

40 yrs give or take and on and off..........

longtimecollector · July 17, 2006 5:20AM

40+

slipgate · July 17, 2006 5:24AM

Since 1975

drwstr123 · July 17, 2006 5:26AM

50+ years, favor Lincolns.

BECOKA · July 17, 2006 5:26AM

Off and on for 20 years but not seriously until about 3 years ago.

xbob · July 17, 2006 5:27AM

Circ wheaties in folders, gift proof sets, and family hand-me-downs since childhood (35 yrs+). However there was a long pause until 3 years ago when I got back into it, ironically it was when I went to the Baltimore show to sell the coins all off. It was my first show and it blew me away. After I picked my jaw off the floor I knew I was "home" and started collecting again, and with more serious passion. A complete 180.

thezookrew · July 17, 2006 5:30AM

Been hoarding money since I started working, but started COLLECTING coins with the State Quarters - so about 6 years or so.

DNADave · July 17, 2006 5:46AM

I started with the release of the 1986 SAE. So don't poo poo the Gold Buffalo's too much. They may be the doorway for another collector to enter the hobby.

kiyote · July 17, 2006 5:46AM

Wow.. since I was about 9. I guess 24 years.

foodude · July 17, 2006 5:48AM

1971

BillJones · July 17, 2006 5:52AM

Started on Christmas day, 1959.

Coxe · July 17, 2006 5:57AM

Since the 1960s. Collection was stolen while in graduate school but I started over presumably wiser and more focused. Been doing DMPL Morgans since the last bull market crashed and burned.

tjkillian · July 17, 2006 6:01AM

Since 1971, when I was 9 years old.

Tom

TorinoCobra71 · July 17, 2006 6:04AM

25+ year collector. I love Morgans, Peace Dollars and WLH Dollars!

TorinoCobra71

DeusExMachina · July 17, 2006 6:08AM

<< <i>Off and on for 20 years but not seriously until about 3 years ago. >>

busco69 · July 17, 2006 6:30AM

33 years my dad started me in it when I was five. I helped him go thru about 50 large bank bags of wheat cents,man that was fun we found alot of key dates.

seateddime · July 17, 2006 6:31AM

since I was 5

RBB617 · July 17, 2006 6:32AM

The short answer is 9 or 10 years of actual collecting, broken down in two stints: 8 - 12 and 33 to present.

Julian · July 17, 2006 6:33AM

I have been collecting coins since 1958, currency since the early 70's, tokens since the early 80's and have been a full time dealer since 1965.

Michigan · July 17, 2006 6:36AM

Since 1966. You could still find silver coins in circulation back then but they were disappearing fast. Filled up most of the Roosevelt
whitman folder and a fair amount of the Mercury dime folder as well. By 1968 silver coins were getting very scarce and by
1969 the party was basically over.

millennium · July 17, 2006 6:38AM

<< <i> First got a barber quarter in change in elementary school in 1963. It was old, it was ugly, it was WAY COOL! >>

Hey!...That's the way I got started...A friend of mine was collecting coins and I found one I thought he wanted...he didn't so I kept it....that was the first.

TheKidCollector1991 · July 17, 2006 6:40AM

Since I was 12 Now Am 14.

TwoSides2aCoin · July 17, 2006 6:42AM

<< <i>Since 1966. You could still find silver coins in circulation back then but they were disappearing fast. Filled up most of the Roosevelt
whitman folder and a fair amount of the Mercury dime folder as well. By 1968 silver coins were getting very scarce and by
1969 the party was basically over. >>

started the year after Michigan with paper route in '67... sold off everything to buy christmas presents for 14 brothers and sisters in 1973. Went to the military for a few tours... marriage... and didn't get back into coins until after my divorce in '99..... None the wiser. Still trying to make a buck and losing cents!
I have more rarities than I've ever had and I'm still not satisfied. When I get me a 1913 Nickel and a 1933 Saint, I'm retiring from coin collecting.

Oldgrump · July 17, 2006 6:44AM

Going on 48 years

,But just 6 years a bonified serious collector. It took that long before I had the money
Steve

etexmike · July 17, 2006 6:49AM

Worked on the Whitman penny book (1941 - 19##) to earn a Merit badge for Cub Scouts when I was 6.

I just turned 52 last month. Took a couple of short breaks along the way but have been pretty serious since I got my first steel cent.

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JRocco · July 17, 2006 6:55AM

I'll check in with right around 40 years.

Smoker · July 17, 2006 7:25AM

50+ years on and off. Started when SLQs, Mercs, Franklins, Walkers, Buffalo nickels, early Lincolns, Morgan/Peace dollars, etal., was common pocket change for an adult.

coinman420 · July 17, 2006 7:27AM

30 years starting in 1976

messydesk · July 17, 2006 7:28AM

Started in '75. Only bought the occasional Mint product in high school & college. Started picking up steam again in '90.

librtyhead · July 17, 2006 7:33AM

started.1969..............

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................they made a "special" moon landing coin............back when star trek was cool!

joecheck · July 17, 2006 7:37AM

Since 1998! An elderly lady paid me (I owned my own store) in silver quarters and Mercury dimes. I ran after her casino bus to give them back, figuring it was an accident. But, she said it was not an accident and she showed me a very large bag of similar coins that she was going to pump into slot machines in Atlantic City. In retrospect, I should have bought them all from her. But, back then I had little knowledge of coins and was just impressed to have the small hoard she used to pay. I don't have them any longer but they started me off on years of collecting.

zippy · July 17, 2006 7:51AM

1957......FOR YRS GOT ALL MY COINS FROM change in circulation, in the early 60's finally went to a coin store & a once a yr coin show....

ziggy29 · July 17, 2006 7:59AM

Since I was about 7 or 8, after being interested in my dad's collection which he plucked from pocket change in Puerto Rico while being stationed there in the early 1960s. I'm 40 now, so do the math...

keez · July 17, 2006 8:14AM

July 2005

09sVDB · July 17, 2006 8:15AM

Since 1968, so 36 years.

ElKevvo · July 17, 2006 8:21AM

Mid 70's...

silverpop · July 17, 2006 8:25AM

1992

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