How'd you get into collecting coins? Share your story

Maybe he's young at heart? Maybe not even a he?

 

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maybe its his dads account?

 

Who gives their kids passwords to personal web pages?
And don't say "Stupid people"

 

Either way he's a collector.

 

dad, nuff said....

 

I started coin collecting as a young boy. At age 10 or so I managed to land a paper route. Every week after collecting from my customers I would look through the change and fill empty holes in Whitman cent and nickel albums. My dad encouraged this as a way of saving, which turned out to be the case because I never spent any of the coins in those albums.

 

I did the same thing, though I dare say, I did spend some.........

 

Fortunately, the buckets were already empty by the time they hit Insider on the head.

Chris

 

That's too much like work! I made 100x as much in the poolroom.

Chris

 

Fortunate for who?

 

Breaking open pay phones outside the poolrooms, like the one @cpm9ball was gambling in.

 

Then, who got you started drinking bourbon?

Chris

 

He never learned to add. That's why he pays too much for coins.

Chris

 

There wasn't any pay phone. Someone stole it.

Chris

 

Guys who spend all their time at the horse track.

Chris

 

Now, here is someone who has gotten the general drift of this thread very quickly.

Chris

 

I started in January of this year. At first I bought some silver bars and rounds at an LCS. I started asking the owner about his coins and the next thing I knew I bought a Morgan and a Walker. Going to my first coin club meeting tomorrow night.

 

@noname @Lon Chaney

I don't have my own email address so I'm using my parents. Just a heads up

 

Anyone with a decent sense of taste gravitates to bourbon naturally.

Me, I dug an 1861 IHC out of the ground in my front yard while playing Matchboxes in the late 1960's. It was so_cool that I can still picture that long-gone coin in my mind. Our local soil had bleached it nearly white. After a long break to (sort of) become an adult, my entrepreneurial streak brought me back around to them when I discovered that pawn shops near my Army post paid so little for stuff - and sold the stuff for so little in return - that I could buy there and resell to some city pawn shops at a profit. That gave me a feel for what was/wasn't really worth it, in general, about coins.

Fast forward a few years, to the early 2000's when my perverse sense of gift-giving led me to buy my (then) wife a couple of DMPL Morgans and a couple of gold $2.5's for Christmas. The moment I opened that first slabbed DMPL, it was all over for me, and I haven't been in any sort of control since.

 

Drinking is a family tradition, though he drank Scotch.......I was a rebel........