When and how did you start collecting coins? tell me your story and what it was that got you started. (for example) I got started colleting coins in 2012 when I found a wheat penny at a pizza shop. Have Fun!
1957.........10 years old..........gambling in the local poolroom.........16 year old named Joe lost $5........got paid with 4 ones and a (Morgan) silver dollar.........went to the bank and got 4 more silver dollars with the rest of my winnings........made a regular habit of getting more silver dollars whenever I won..........I rarely lost........by the early 60's, I had accumulated more than 800 silver dollars. Chris
While my parents and big brother were cleaning up and area and digging holes to put a fence in 1976. I was off to the side with a hand shovel digging a small hole. I dug up a 1925 Mercury Dime (see avatar). I then started hoarding (change) pennies and some nickels, dimes, quarters, and half dollars into paper rolls, cans, etc. for several years. I still have those and have no idea what's really in them. (ie, unsearched rolls). Every so often I'll get back into collecting coins. I've never sold any, and many are not high grade nor graded. But it's fun looking back at the history of designs and the history around the time periods of those coins. As an adult, I also like gold and silver and never liked any manufactured goods around it except for coins.
I've looked in it from time to time such when I was reading the thread about "unsearched rolls". I haven't opened up any of the rolls but in containers I've see pennies from the early 1900s, but no Indian Heads. I figure when the kids are out of the house and I retire I'll have time to go through them.
in the late 60's ... when I was Kindergarten, 1st grade ?? my mother bought me one of those blue Whitman penny & nickel books and I guess I'm still hooked. I got to look thru my father's weekly payments from his paper route that he did. Customers paid for the newspapers in envelopes that they left in the paper tubes. Back then newspapers total didn't add up in dollars so everyone paid in coins. There was always a good pile of coins to look thru at the time when he did this job.
I started roll searching cents around 1970 and still have my Whitman folders that I put them in. My best find was a '26-S in EF condition and most interesting was a '44 off-center strike that I posted here a while back. Come to think of it, I still have my 1970 Red Book as well.
