How Long have we Forum Members been Collecting Coins ?

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  • bidask
    bidask Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Before David Hall and Steve Ivy were proprietors.image
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • nankraut
    nankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
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    50 yearsimage
    I'm the Proud recipient of a genuine "you suck" award dated 1/24/05. I was accepted into the "Circle of Trust" on 3/9/09.
  • dizzyfoxx
    dizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
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    << <i>Late December of 2005. I'm a newbie. image >>



    I'm one year your senior.image
    image...There's always time for coin collecting. image
  • jdimmick
    jdimmick Posts: 9,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I started when I was about 5 in 1975 and collected till about 16

    Then took a break while in high school and started back shortly after in about 1988 or so. Collected on /off for several years though not serious.

    Started back in 1997 by aquiring key-dates and have been at it ever since. Now I have been a part-time dealer for 1 1/2 years.

  • Cameonut
    Cameonut Posts: 7,436 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    45 years - give or take year. More serious the last 20 years.

    “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

    My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!

  • Bryan1315
    Bryan1315 Posts: 579
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    it will be a year in september
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  • relayer
    relayer Posts: 10,570 ✭
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    since last Thursday
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    since 8/1/6
  • Halfsense
    Halfsense Posts: 600 ✭✭✭
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    Started collecting coins -- Lincoln cents from pocket change -- at the age of eight in 1954 (yes, I'm a 60-year old Baby Boomer this year), stopped collecting around my sophmore year in high school when I realized you could spend money on other rarities and gems. I became a Reborn Numismatist in 1975 when I realized the Mint's proof sets I'd purchased years earlier for less than $3 a set were being sold for $25 each.

    -donn-

    "If it happens in numismatics, it's news to me....
  • MrSpud
    MrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
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    Since the late 60's, but more seriously in the last few years.
  • Newmismatist
    Newmismatist Posts: 1,802 ✭✭
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    Since December 25, 1949 - which I guess is over 56 years (Started with Lincoln cents)
    Collecting eye-appealing Proof and MS Indian Head Cents, 1858 Flying Eagle and IHC patterns and beautiful toned coins.

    “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
    Newmismatist
  • mozeppa
    mozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
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    How Long have we Forum Members been Collecting Coins ?


    the wee ones not as long as the old timers.




    p.s. you misspelled "wee"
  • JZrarities
    JZrarities Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
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    1977
  • dwssws
    dwssws Posts: 2,166
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    been collecting for the last 24 hours and I love itimageimage
    steve

    myCCset
  • 123cents
    123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
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    15 years.
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  • dorancoins
    dorancoins Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭
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    Started collecting since 1984 (when my uncle brought back some currency and coins from Canada) - but I started to appricate coins because while growing up in Kankakee, IL (back in the 80's) there was a coin shop owned by a husband and wife team - the husband sold coins, the wife sold used novels. My sister would go to the novels, I would go to the coins. The coin shop on no longer there (husband and wife moved to Florida) and the building that it used to stand on is now a Walgreens.
    DORAN COINS - On Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), & www.dorancoins.net - UPCOMING SHOWS (tentative dates)- 2/26/2026 - Joliet, IL
  • hyf88
    hyf88 Posts: 294 ✭✭✭
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    30 years, and still feel like I have so much to learn.
  • tsacch
    tsacch Posts: 2,929 ✭✭✭
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    35 years.....11 months, 27 days.
    Family, kids, coins, sports (playing not watching), jet skiing, wakeboarding, Big Air....no one ever got hurt in the air....its the sudden stop that hurts. I hate Hurricane Sandy. I hate FEMA and i hate the blasted insurance companies.
  • lasvegasteddy
    lasvegasteddy Posts: 10,492 ✭✭✭
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    off and on for some 36 years
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • HighRelief
    HighRelief Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Since 1969 when I filled my first Whitman Liberty Nickel album. I was always on the lookout for the 1913 but never found one. I remember hoarding the pre 64 silver coins and putting them in my shoe box. Those were the days when you could still find silver in your change. Great thread ABC123
  • Nysoto
    Nysoto Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I started collecting at age 7 filling Whitman Lincoln, Buffaloes, and Mercs out of circulation. Some time off for cars, girls, college. Been collecting steady for 20 years, the last 10 years mostly bust coins.
    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • MrEureka
    MrEureka Posts: 24,778 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The coolest thing is that I don't know the answer to this question. I've literally been collecting longer than I remember. But if I had to guess, I started at 5 or six, which puts me at 40 years in the game.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • johnsim03
    johnsim03 Posts: 992 ✭✭
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    At least 40 years, off and on.
    Wish I still had all of those coin folders I seriously worked on as a kid...

    Grownups are just bent kids.
    - George Carlin

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    John
    John C. Knudsen, LM ANA 2342, LM CSNS 337
    SFC, US Army (Ret.) 1974-1994
  • rec78
    rec78 Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Started on Christmas day, 1959. ??????????image
    Me too Bill---i got the two whitman cent folders for Christmas. I was 8. But there were periods when i bought no coins because of high prices or no funds --one of them was from 1983-1992. I still considered my self a collector- but inactive for that time period....Bob
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  • Bruceswar
    Bruceswar Posts: 2,869
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    Been at this for 16 years now.... Ever since I was 7. I am 23 now... I love every minute of it.
    The Bruce Lee Collection


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  • numobri
    numobri Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭
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    40 plus years of funimage


    Brian
    NUMO
  • ccex
    ccex Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭
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    Since 1971, when I was 12, but not from 1977-1985 or from 1988-1999.
    "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
  • JimDepot
    JimDepot Posts: 960 ✭✭✭
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    About a month.

    really liked the GB Proof and that started the whole thing.
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  • Coindexter
    Coindexter Posts: 1,074
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    4 years plus change, but only about a year and a half with any idea what I am doing.
  • Conder101
    Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
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    Started studying coins in Dec of 1966 at the age of five, started actually collecting coins in 1972 at the age of eleven and have collected continously with no breaks ever since. 34 years as a collector and coming up on 40 years as a numismatist.

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