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How long have you been a collector?

bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭
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From my baby book:
"At age 4 Greg collected all kinds of odds &ends (paper,boxes, pieces of wood, trinkets,etc.) and hid them in little piles all around the house."

also found this: "Greg's first day home from hospital, he had diahrrea. Was given weak tea and PAREGORIC for three days."
Thank's a lot Mom!image
No wonder I like to tipple a bit!
"Wars are really ugly! They're dirty
and they're cold.
I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole."
Mary






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    dimplesdimples Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭
    40 years with a couple of gaps you know dating scene & marriage scene.

    Dan
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On and off for about 35 years, but I have only had the illness for the last five.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭


    I started collecting heavily(spending a couple hundred dollars a month) about 3 years ago when I was 26.

    always have liked coins but kept chasing girls instead and going broke.
    @ Elite CNC Routing & Woodworks on Facebook. Check out my work.
    Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    5 Years.
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    WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Since i was 10. so for the last 41 years.

    Steve
    Good for you.
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    DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    21 years
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    image

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
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    lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,492 ✭✭✭
    started in 66' at age 4 when grammy in mo. had me fillin her books with those shinny injuns.
    stayed with it myself till in so cali as a teenager then...(drugs and zappa concerts took over)
    needless to say only got bite last year again
    that makes 41 years here for me in the on and off agains
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


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    PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭
    About 23 years, so far as I can remember.
    John Kraljevich, Director of Numismatic Americana, Stack's Bowers Galleries
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    coinnutcoinnut Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I started 50 years ago at age 7. There was a 15 year gap from 1984 to 1999 during which time I did not buy a coin for my collection nor attend a coin show. I started a business which seemed to require most of my time.
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    lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,492 ✭✭✭
    hey russ,
    a color picture?
    i wonder why we never had them color ones too as all my family pix are black and whites
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


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    mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,196 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Since 1978.
    mirabela
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    jhusmanjhusman Posts: 1,082 ✭
    Of coins - for 10 - 15 years. Before that, I collected stamps. I'm sure I have a picture like Russ' somewhere.
    B/S/T List.
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>hey russ,
    a color picture?
    i wonder why we never had them color ones too as all my family pix are black and whites >>



    It was a new fangled invention at the time.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
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    CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,345 ✭✭✭✭✭
    'bout 6 years.
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    silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,936 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Since 1992

    opinions are words spoken by those who have little or no clue on the issue in front them

    likes do not pay bills, buyers do

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    commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,099 ✭✭✭
    Since 3rd grade or so. So, about about 11 years : )

    -Paul
    Many Quality coins for sale at http://www.CommonCentsRareCoins.com
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    123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    About 10 years.
    image
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    tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    I'd always had the interest in coins growing up, but it wasn't until about 6 years ago when I got the bug on my own when I inherited what my dad had left and didn't sell. It was all cleaned stuff except for the big bag of 1976 Bicentennial quarters. He must have thought those were worth something.
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    lkrarecoinslkrarecoins Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭
    Since circa 1978 (when I was 10)....I took a break during high school and college...I resumed activities about 5-6 years ago
    In Loving Memory of my Dad......My best friend, My inspiration, and My Coin Collecting Partner

    "La Vostra Nonna Ha Faccia Del Fungo"
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    LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    I've been collecting 25 years
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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    curlycurly Posts: 2,880 ✭
    1964, I was a 20 yr. old curly then.
    Every man is a self made man.
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    DeusExMachinaDeusExMachina Posts: 1,325 ✭
    I've been collecting off and on for 23 years. I've been serious about it for 4 years. And by serious, I mean spending money on the hobby. I used to pull coins out of circulation or get them for free.image
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    EricSanEricSan Posts: 889
    Since 1981, but its only cost me "real" money in the last 2 years since I found this place...

    Eric
    EAC member since 2011, one third of the way through my 1793 large cent type set
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    GeomanGeoman Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭
    I started collecting in 1979. Collected on and off through high school, dating, college, marriage, etc. But started collecting "die hard" about 5 years ago in 2002.
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    tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    Since I was 9 in 1971. Back then, I still could not find silver in my bank rolls.

    It keeps getting worse and worse as the years go by. I"m now a stickler for original coins.
    Tom

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    pb2ypb2y Posts: 1,461 ✭
    First Lincoln set - 1942 - about 30 coins in all and mounted in
    a neat little cardboard holder. They were soon spent on a
    Roy Rodgers movie and a bag of popcorn.
    Wonder were they are now???

    image
    image

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    CoinlearnerCoinlearner Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image 23 years on and off. Think I like reading, learning about, and "listening"to what others say about hobby, over the coin themselves. Still, I enjoy holding the piece of art and history.image
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    ShortgapbobShortgapbob Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭
    I began collecting about four or five years ago. My father got me hooked on it after I attended a show with him and was looking through some 19th century type coins. Since then, I have been burying myself in the literature and learning as much as possible about the field.
    "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle

    For a large selection of U.S. Coins & Currency, visit The Reeded Edge's online webstore at the link below.

    The Reeded Edge
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    jmski52jmski52 Posts: 23,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1962, Jefferson Nickels started me on this trip.
    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
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    WritersblockWritersblock Posts: 1,196 ✭
    Started studying numismatics in Nov 1966 at the age of five, began collecting in Feb 1972 when I was eleven. I've been collecting continously since then, 35 years.
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    FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    I buy modern crap from the US Mint

    I buy bullion Crap

    I don't try to build sets by date & mintmark

    I hate rainbow classic stuff even if it could be NT


    -- By definition I am NOT a coin collector - just some sort of pathetic wannabee.

    image
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    RonyahskiRonyahski Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭✭✭
    42 years.
    Some refer to overgraded slabs as Coffins. I like to think of them as Happy Coins.
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    Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭
    About 24 years now, since I was 5. I started collecting errors when I was about 10, and those I am still collecting.
    --

    Ed. S.

    (EJS)
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    carlcarl Posts: 2,054 ✭
    Started when my Dad gave me one of the brand new, hot off the presses, silver looking pennies in 1943.
    Old enough even then to start collecting coins and still at it.
    Carl
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    granpagrafgranpagraf Posts: 292
    I started collecting antique bottles at the age of 10 and have been for the last 40 years along with antique advertising and coins for about 5 years now!
    imageCollector Of All U.S. Gold Coinage!
    Antique Soda Bottles And Antique Soda Related
    Advertising, and many other collectables!
    Life is too short, I might as well buy Gold while I'm still around!image    image
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Since I was seven.... I was a collector then, and I am a collector now - not a dealer, not a flipper. I collect what interests me. I do not like toned coins, but if it is a coin I want, I will take it toned or not (then wait for a clean one - i.e. no corrosion). Cheers, RickO
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    mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    I started collecting coins nearly 60 years ago. Of course, young girls and college interrupted my coin collecting. When I hit my mid-life crisis, and bought a Corvette Roadster, was my most recent interruption in coin collecting. I finally got over that time about four years ago, when I sold my Corvette.
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.
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    MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭

    Started while in Jr. High School back in 1960 continued thru the early 1970's.

    Took a break for twenty years or so, and have been back collecting for about

    fifteen years.

    Mike Hayes
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Coin collecting is not a hobby, it's an obsession !

    New Barber Purchases
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    NicNic Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coins ... 35 of my 48 years. Before that (and now again), rocks and minerals. Before that ... well you get the picture. Someone once told me you are either a collector or not, and if so, it will enrich your life. Have to say I agree.

    K

    My 1866 Philly Mint Set

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    MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    I began collecting coins as a boy with a newspaper route, in 1959, but did not really become serious about my collecting until around 1980, so I would say 27 years.
    They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
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    sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    I started aroun 1975/76. I stopped around 1980 or 81 for many years and then got back into it in 2000. The Sac was one of the factors in taking up the hobby again.
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    percybpercyb Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭✭
    When I was a child my father owned a laundrymat and several times a month the family would sit around the kitchen table sorting through coins--mostly dimes and quarters and place them in Whitmans. They bought mint items every year and then ASEs...Then bought old Buffalos, some old silver dollars from time to time. I used to go to a coin show in my small chicago suburb and by buffs to add to the collection. But I let it go for about 20 years.. Now I have the family collection and have been adding to it. This all started back in the 60s.
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
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    the4x4manthe4x4man Posts: 106
    I started collected coins and stamps in the 70's. I started really getting into it over the past couple years. I noticed it is hard to collect coins when your in the military. Now that I'm out, I try to buy a coin when I can. Love Morgans, and anything else silver or gold.
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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1980 for coins some other things go back futher.
    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
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    EdscoinEdscoin Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭
    Since 1962 when I was 6 years old. About 2 weeks before my Grand Father Died he gave me an 1891 seated half that was the year he was born. Been hooked on coins every since.
    ED
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    RodiusRodius Posts: 857 ✭
    On and off since 1968
    imagePCUSAimage
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 29,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is my 50th year. image
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
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    renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1968

    I got a gold star for the week...it was 4th grade. At the end of that week I was first to chose from a pile of "goodies" and there was a "black book" Guide to U.S. Coins with my name on it. That was the hook.

    Ren

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