How long have you been collecting?

50 years and loved it .
I am one that collects just for fun and to own a part of history.
Dont collect slab coins but love the older worn coins and today my coins would be hard pressed to be worth 1000.00.
I do it for the fun not the money and i have fun with it.
I say to each his own collect it your way.

 

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Wow Ardy, I thought you were older.......

Heck, ya 'talk' old.

 

How old did ya think I was? I'm only 24!

 

Like 2.5 months

 

I knew that........thought you'd been collecting for so much longer than you say, though. Knowledge oozes from one oh so young.....

 

2.251518585 Years (to be exact)

 

Was a youngin in th 60"s and my Dad gave me some coins. Need I say more?

 

Pi?

 

My family has be collecting since the 1870s. I have collected for 32 years, since I was four years old.

 

LII years.....

 

That's 3.14264 something I think? Lol I started in 1999 when I was 8.

 

On and off since 2001, since 2009 in earnest (to use Green's words)

 

Yeah, could have 'googled' it but I thought I'd have some fun.......

 

So what's with earnest? LOL......

 

It's just clean living guys. Coffee an vodka only. I hit 55 back in July. My favorite number. That makes me a 1957 model. About 1962 one of my favorite uncles came to live with my family. We sorted Lincoln cents for years. Today I wonder where he came up with them all. He may have traded the bag but I'll bet I sorted the same bag several times.

Sure kept me busy. At age 10 I worked in the cash room at S H Kress for my dad. I got to roll all the change. He had to fire me for being too slow and wanting to take home more Lincolns than my allowance would cover. I think I got about a dollar a week in those days. A few years later I was working in the cash room for TG&Y, again for my dad. Had the same problem. My allowance would not cover what I wished to take home.

It's been fun.

 

I couldn't think of a good word to describe collecting coins for pleasure but looking at them every day. "Serious" is just so darn serious

 

Just not at the same time, right larry?

 

It's: 3.14259265

 

Well I got to the thousandths off the top of my head good enough for me lol

 

I prefer coffee and Jameson.