How old were you when you started collecting?

I was 5 when I started accumulating coins. When I was 11 I sorted through it and really started collecting at 13.

 

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Maybe 8 or 9 when I put a bunch of weird coins in a box, stuff that you wouldn't normally see in circulation like 1943 cents, odd world coins, etc. I set it aside for many years and forgot about it.

In 2010 (when I was 15) I inherited some coins from my grandfather. Nothing valuable, but maybe 80 wheats and some Mercury Dimes. Researching online introduced me into the world of error/variety coins for Lincoln Cents, and I have since branched out and collected much more.

 

The common theme I am seeing here is that many of us started out quite young. Just stating the obvious for anyone wondering.

As a quick joke, cause lord knows we love him.

I guess that would mean Doug probably started collecting at about the same age as all the rest of us, starting from waaaaaaaay back in 1951..................BC that is.

 

There is a cartoon drawn called BC. Doug said it reminded him of his childhood. Especially the clothes and the dinosaurs.

 

I started in about 1962 when I was 11. like others here it was my grandfather's stash that got me interested. many of his coins were put aside by his father in higher grades from the 1800s so I was kjnda spoiled for better grade coins at an early age. took time off from collecting in my 20s-30s due to other things in life and got back into it 17-18 yrs ago.

 

I started when I was in second grade which was in 1980-1981. I remember finding a 1956 wheat in a jar of pennies and from that point forward I have been hooked.

 

I was ninteen. I started with silver art bars and then a Franklin from New England Rare Gallaries for $10. My first "big buy" was a 1931S Buffalo from Joe Flynn.

 

about 3 years ago, I was 40

as a teenager the only thing I collected was girlfriends.

 

19, and just picking up the pace and diversifying and having a multitude of plans for them lovely coins!

 

I started at about 12 in 1990, and got started by finding a mundane 1969-s business strike Jefferson one day and went pretty strong on assembling sets in my teens. I got away from collecting in my 20s. I got back into this about 2-3 years ago and am very happy I held onto the collection through the dormant years.

 

I was about 5-6 in the mid 70's. A little silver was still in change, and quite a few buffalo and war nickels and wheat cents. My first silver dollar at a coin show I bought was a BU 21d for $5. Like most people, though, puberty and high school hit and I had a lapse.

 

Like X115, did not start until I was 40.

Like most of the others here, I am a baby boomer, born in 1949. But I did not collect coins as a kid. My Mom tried to get my brother and me interested in stamps and that worked for less than a year and we never went to a shop or bought more albums. She brought home a couple of albums and worked for a company that did a lot of international business. I think the albums came with a mixed bag of world commons. Like everyone, I had baseball cards, but it was the game, not the cards per se, that was the motivation. I had far more passion for my telescope and microscope.

I collected for about 10 years. In 2000, after working for Coin World for a year, I sold the bulk of my accumulations. I kept about 100 items: coins (mostly ancients), tokens, banknotes, stock certificates, etc. I have been scanning those and posting them in the discussions. One exception was that in order to write about the great medieval fairs, I bought a dozen different medieval coins.

 

I think I was about 6 years old. I lived in a 4 story apartment building in midtown Manhattan and on the street level was a clothing store which dealt with a lot of foreign visitors.The owner gave me foreign coins as a gift and I acquired a nice collection. That would have been around 1948.

 

8 years old.

 

i forgot to put a year...... i was 4 in 2002 (and i had an up-to-date collection of SQs and a handful of Sacs and clad halves)

 

I started in 1973

 

i was too old.

 

I started in about 1954 when I was 13.

 

I was given a collection of coins when I was maybe 10 or so by my grandfather, and I lost or spent every one.

I started again last year, so I'd say 34.

 

1969 at age 9, 44 years of enjoyment.