Contest for YNs... Forum members decide who gets it

O,Noooo I'm allllll over it!!!! Got my name on it soon as I read the post haha

 

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I believe what they are saying as in young ir okd is how long you have been in the Kinfs Hobby!! You can be 100 but if you just started yesterday you still considered a newb right?!?! Like vice versa you could be 18 but have been collecting since a toddler!!!

 

I just turned 13 so I'm a yn. I started collecting at the age of 4. At my grocery store, we had the penny horsey rides. I saw what I now know as a wheat penny from 1940 that at the time I thought was a token. I collect mercury dimes currently and I search half dollar rolls frequently.

 

Welcome to CT, but I'm pretty sure that this contest has been over for a bit. No need to worry though, just signing up and participating here is a wealth of knowledge and a prize onto itself. Please do an introduction thread and tell us about you. We really like to see pictures of collections and like to hear how it came to be. Stick around, you'll have fun here.

 

Yeah, what Kirk sed...welcome.

 

Hello, i am 16 years old and i a have been studying coins for the past four years and partaking an independent research course called TPSP which stands for Texas Performance Standards Project. I feel that the current value of coins are going down, with the price of the silver. I also feel that the average age of coin collectors is increasing, but steadly. One author from numismatic news stated "The average age of numismatic news readers has risen by ten years over my thirty seven career" so there must be new collectors, young ones, entering the market to make it grow closer. There was about 120 million people that collected state quarters and i feel that some of them are coming back for more after being formed which can be displaced by how there was a record attendance at the FUN SHOW and the Long beach coin show this year. I got into the hobby because I found a wheat back penny in my pocket change in the second grade and I thought that it was the collect thing that i ever saw, I was aw struck that someone owned the coin right after world war II ended and in the seventh grade i went to a gun show and got an indian cent penny and got hooked. I stay in it because there is nothing like the thrill of the hunt, and holding a piece of history in your hand. I love thinking that I have something that touched the lives of hudnread, or thousands of individual people, many many years ago. for All i know my 1831 capped bust half dollar was in someones pocket while they were attending Lincolns inaugural address. Or my 1837 hard E.F sailes and co hard times token was spent by a merchant during the financial crisis of 1837 I feel that I will consider my self seasoned by the time that I am 35 because I started when I am 12 and I love to study coins, but some day I want to open a coin shop when im around twenty five. Hopefully the product that I am going to produce for TPSP will be successful but if not than I will have good experience for then. I specifically choose 36 because if my business succeeds then than I will have had a decade in experience with selling coins by that point.

 

Brandon, I'm sorry but this contest ended back in June. Copy and save your essay somewhere until the next one

 

don't worry about it and thank you, I appreciate you letting me know=)

 

I was just about to ask, "what are you talking about?" LOL

 

Welcome! We need some young blood to eventually replace old fogies like yours truly!

 

Thank you for welcoming me and y'all are not old fogies.

 

No, their not old fogies.... their old as dirt

 

Frank is........

 

Who is that? LOL

 

Treashunt.........

 

Ahhhh

 

Ok, I'm going to do a contest for YNs geared for newer collectors.

 

Cool!

 

I'm kinda new to ancients...

 

Ya right. Think I'm newer than you are!