Are you a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. Generation Coin Collector

Did your parents collect coins, Grandparents, etc. collect coins?
Im not counting if your parents bought one mint set the day you were born, or saved a few bicentennial quarters. Someone that actually put time and effort into collecting.
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im 1st. My family thinks I'm nuts paying the prices I do for coins.

 

1st generation. My grandparents and parents accumulated silver coinage.

 

2nd generation. My Father got me interested.........

 

Grandpa collected, but my parents didn't. So which generation am I...?

 

It skipped a generation in my family, like @micbraun. Both my mom's parents collected.

 

2nd here...

 

I guess you would be the 2nd generation of your family to collect

 

Using the LCS definition of a collection, I'm a first gen collector. My grandmother's collection would be considered an accumulation...but it was her interest that got me started, so I consider myself a second gen collector.

 

My Father and I started at the exact same time so both first and second haha

 

2nd Generation, my grandfather collected, my parents didn't, and now I do! I'm so glad I got into collecting, its so fun!

 

Would put you at third.....

 

I'm a 1st generation collector.

Chris

 

3rd generation in lineage but 2nd generation in collecting.

Chris

 

OK....stand corrected.

 

My grandpa collected in the 60's and 70's. He died suddenly in 1981 when I was very young. My grandmother sold off all but his best stuff over the years. She kept a decent, but cleaned, type set. I then inherited it in 2012 and have been hooked. So, there was a 31 year gap in collecting.

 

3rd here, although my father was my only influence.

 

An uncle collected, and was quite serious, but I am the Lone Ranger in my family.

 

1st, fellow YN got me into this mess.

 

Grandpa collected semi-seriously. He had a handful of Morgans, lots of wheats, rolls of unc cents, nickels, etc, some coins in holders, some raw, a incomplete merc dime set in a frame, and so on. My parents didn't collect. Guess I'm second gen, but who really knows if our relatives a hundred years ago collected?