how many years have you been collecting?

ClosedLoop · December 12, 2009 2:29PM

it's been three years for me and it's been great.
thank you to all.

DIMEMAN · December 12, 2009 2:30PM

Since 1960...you do the math.

And I still love it.

STONE · December 12, 2009 2:31PM

Started since I was 5, that's all you'll need to know!

MidLifeCrisis · December 12, 2009 2:31PM

First time - about 5 years, in my early teens.

This time - about 10 years.

Unknown · December 12, 2009 2:33PM

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speety · December 12, 2009 2:33PM

Been collecting seriously for about a third of my life now...

ProofArtworkonCircs · December 12, 2009 2:34PM

70+ years, but it was a very slow start.

Geotovore · December 12, 2009 2:35PM

Still relatively new, collecting less than a year now, but had a stash as a child of foreign coins and things to that extent. Does that count?

Justacommeman · December 12, 2009 2:45PM

Baseball cards- twenty five years
wine- fifteen years
African antiquities- ten years
first edition french books -five years (Les Trois Mousquetaires I own

)
coins- three years

Coin collecting has been the most fun............MJ

zeebob · December 12, 2009 2:56PM

collected when I was a kid.
lost interest.
Sort of started again in 2000.
Got serious about 2006.

drwstr123 · December 12, 2009 2:56PM

More than modern crap...50+years.

AUandAG · December 12, 2009 2:58PM

since 1956.

oh my!

bob

Bear · December 12, 2009 3:07PM

Since the Pleistocene Era.

MFH · December 12, 2009 3:15PM

1960 - 1973 - US Coins

1973 - 1976 - US Stamps

1989 - To Date - US Coins

illini420 · December 12, 2009 3:21PM

1984-1994; 2005-present... bought some of the proof sets from the mint though during my "lost years"

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silverpop · December 12, 2009 3:51PM

since 1992

Moldnut · December 12, 2009 3:52PM

It was in 1995 when I was watching a guy on TV, I think it was a guy from Southern Coin or something like that. I remember going to the book store and buying a copy of the 1995 North American Coins & Prices and looked up what this guy was selling. I remember thinking to myself, crap this guy sells for 2x - 3x the price in the guide I just bought. I learned my first two lessons, find a good dealer and don't buy off the TV. I have been hooked till this day and love it. And that good dealer that I found and still use today is Bob Patchin.
Derek

pennyannie · December 12, 2009 4:15PM

About 8 years, went nuts the first 2 years and bought around 200k in coins not really knowing ANYTHING about them, spent the last 6 years selling most of them and starting over, Still do not know muh but sold the bulk of the coins for far more than 200k.

richbeat · December 12, 2009 5:40PM

Since 1970. 40th year!

ocon4008 · December 12, 2009 6:02PM

<<Since the Pleistocene Era.>>

Wow Bear, that is a very long period! Could you narrow it down some; what stage of the Pleistocene Era did you start? The Gelasian, Calabrian, Ionian or Tarantian? Were you actually in Lydia when the first coins were struck? Did you try to trade with Judas for the silver? What was Columbus really like? Did Washington really have wooden teeth, or is that an urban legend? When did you move out west? I bet you wish now you would have stopped in Virginia City, Nevada in 1857, huh?

2ndCharter · December 12, 2009 6:51PM

Received a Blue Book for Christmas in 1957 when I was eight years old and my mother gave me a subscription to Coin World for Christmas in 1964 - still rolling along.

PerryHall · December 12, 2009 9:59PM

Close to half a century.

lunytune2 · December 12, 2009 10:05PM

Started in 1983 when my grandmother passed away

I inherited a bunch of kennedy half dollars ... started filling Danscos out of circulation and buying what I could not find . This was a winter hobby for me . Just about 7-8 years ago I narrowed my collecting to gold .. a Washington Proof registry and Pre 1900 proofs .

foodude · December 12, 2009 10:15PM

Since 1971.

FilthyBroke · December 12, 2009 10:24PM

About three years. I collected other stuff before that, but never with this intensity or level of interest.

Hyperion · December 12, 2009 10:24PM

it all started in 2005 when, during the summer, I hit for 2.3k in a slot machine

...

the rest, is numismatic history! (as it were)

TennesseeDave · December 12, 2009 10:46PM

Since the early 1970's ,when I was about 10.More seriously since about the late 90's.I rarely had more than a couple dollars at once when I was young.

AMRC · December 12, 2009 11:12PM

<< <i>Since the Pleistocene Era. >>

And here is the proof.

With each advance of the ice, large areas of the continents became totally depopulated, and plants and animals retreating southward in front of the advancing glacier faced tremendous stress. The most severe stress resulted from drastic climatic changes, reduced living space, and curtailed food supply. A major extinction event of large mammals (megafauna), which included mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, glyptodons, ground sloths, Irish elk, Cave Bears, and short-faced bears, began late in the Pleistocene and continued into the Holocene. Neanderthals also became extinct during this period. At the end of the last ice age, Cold-blooded animals, smaller mammals like wood mice, migratory birds, and swifter animals like whitetail deer had replaced the megafauna and migrated north.

secondrepublic · December 12, 2009 11:13PM

Mid- to late 1980s, when I was young, then took a bunch of years off, and now 2002-date.

Mercury10c · December 13, 2009 12:02AM

I don't collect, but I plan on starting in a few years.

GrillFlame · December 13, 2009 12:09AM

I have been collecting since 1998.

blueifalcon · December 13, 2009 12:13AM

6 years, off and on

barbershopper · December 13, 2009 12:19AM

66 years and counting. I took a break from 1961 to 2003 to raise my family. Do I have to subtract those?

I remember because I started when those neat steel cents came out.

JT

RYK · December 13, 2009 12:20AM

39 years, on and off, but mostly off

joebb21 · December 13, 2009 12:27AM

I started collecting right after bear woke up from his hibernation

DRUNNER · December 13, 2009 12:27AM

Typical of most . .

As a kid, made money mowing lawns and sent away for coins via mail order from ages 10-13 or so (that was about 1965), then reignited in about 1995 in a heavy-duty way.

Drunner

CoinHoarder · December 13, 2009 12:31AM

I started getting interested in collecting about 46 years ago when I found a large cent laying on the sidewalk. I really got the fever around 1965, when silver coins began disappearing from circulation. I would go to cashiers and ask if they had ten mercury dimes for a dollar. They would look at me like I was nuts, and say "you can get those anywhere." I kept all these dimes, and still have them, despite by dad encouraging me to sell them in 1980 at the height of the silver boom. I slowed down on my collecting when I went into the military, but never lost interest. I am a full blown collecting addict to this day!

Kozman · December 13, 2009 1:00AM

For about 45 years off and on.

Flatwoods · December 13, 2009 1:21AM

Twenty seven years. Give or take a little.

curly · December 13, 2009 1:25AM

1964

Barbercoin · December 13, 2009 1:27AM

Like some others, my interest began when I was a kid. I was around 10 or 11 (say about 1970), and liked the pennies; this only lasted a few years. I started again in my early twenties and broke into type coins, then narrowed into Barber Quarters. I took another hiatus when the kids AND WORK took up most of my time.

My current endevour restarted around 1995. Just counting the buying years, I guess I've collected coins for around 25 years.

JRocco · December 13, 2009 1:49AM

Over 40 years.
Probably 10 of them strongly, 10 of them so-so and 15 of them occasionally, the rest....chasing after women.

tradedollarnut · December 13, 2009 1:49AM

42

waterzooey · December 13, 2009 1:52AM

Baseball cards = 12 years
Wine = 5 years
Paper/Large Notes = 6 years
Coins = 2 years

FatMan · December 13, 2009 2:05AM

Collected coins when I was a kid. I had a paper route and the cost was $.85 a week so I used to get a ton of change each week.

In later life I started in 1992. So I am right at 18 years. I guess that makes me an adult collector now.

SilverEagles92 · December 13, 2009 2:06AM

Since I was 8 years old

lkeigwin · December 13, 2009 2:20AM

Since 1961.

Didn't we have this discussion before?
Lance.

Rampage · December 13, 2009 2:26AM

About 17 years for me.

Rampage · December 13, 2009 2:28AM

<< <i>Baseball cards- twenty five years
wine- fifteen years
African antiquities- ten years
first edition french books -five years (Les Trois Mousquetaires I own

)
coins- three years

Coin collecting has been the most fun............MJ >>

I've never met a wine collector before. What kinds of rarities are there in wine? Did you drink all your ocllection?

Obiwancanoli · December 13, 2009 2:36AM

I've collected, in my heart, for many years, but never ran for President.

It took the last 2 years to get serious.

There's no cure in the forseeable future.

how many years have you been collecting?

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