How long...

Well, I've only been collecting coins for 6 months...I've tried to make up ground as quickly as I can and learn as much as I can but still got a ways to go.

 

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I started in 1958 when a history teacher gave me a 1936 Buffalo nickel.

Got quite a collection started then sold almost all of it in 1964 when I graduated from high school. (BIG mistake). I started again in 1968 with proof sets and mint sets. Have been building sets since.

I still have that Buffalo nickel. Lots of sentimental value.

Have a good day, Gary

 

I started gathering foreign currency back in 98 or so - mostly just accumulating, because looking back I would not call what I was doing 'collecting'.

I started 'collecting' about 2002, I guess...

I still consider myself very much a newbie to the hobby.

 

When I was a kid (around 10 years old) my uncle gave me a bunch of foriegn coin and currency he had accumulated while he was in the service. Still have it all, I thought I would never had to work, I mean, I had a 1,000 Lire bill after all!! My grandmother gave me about a half dozen circ. Mercs from the 40's shortly after that. A few years later I thought I would sell it all off to the local coin dealer for money for cigarette & beer money. He explained that the dimes were worth less than 50 cents each and he also explain foriegn currency exchange rates. (Can't remember exactly, but that 1,000 lire wasn't worth the paper printed on it)

I was smart enough to go without the cigarettes and beer for a while.

I put all of that stuff away for years (actually forgot about it) and then I found a nice 1930-D wheatie in my pocket in 1997. Put it to the side for a while, I mean this wasn't your average circ. 40's or 50's wheat. Then one day while at the book store I thought I would look it up. Saw it was worth a couple bucks. Also noticed that there were plenty of pocket coins that held a premium (although I didn't realize how hard it was to pull a 1995 DDO Lincoln, let alone the 1972 and 1969 DDO's.

Anyhow, I haven't spent a cent since that day, and I fall deeper and deeper into the coin abyss everyday!!

 

When my grandmother passed away in 1986 I found a pill bottle in her kitchen cabinet with my name written on it. It contained a couple of Franklin half dollars and a few Mercury dimes... Later that year I bought a "new" silver eagle for $12.00 at the hobby store in the mall. The rest is history.

 

I first got interested in coins as a kid in the early 80's when I got a Morgan dollar in my Easter basket. Dad's always been a collector, and I guess he decided one of his girls needed to be bitten by the bug too. I kind of forgot about collecting in my teens and early twenties, but got back into it big time when I started working at the bank in 1999. All those coins sitting around just waiting to be searched...

Rachel

 

Before the dawn of time...O.K. so it was only somewhere around 1930 that I was introduced into the world of coin collecting. My Grandfather thought it was time for me to start learning the finer points of “money”. I was conscripted into an apprenticeship of “coin appreciation”. This continued until I went into military service.

Upon arriving back home, I became a “collecting journeyman” under the watchful eye of my Father, who was now in charge of the family’s collection. This arrangement was in effect until 1982 when I was left with the task of upgrading and finishing all series that had been started those many years ago. Task accomplished and finding no volunteers in the family to take over the job, I simply put the entire collection to good use. I placed it into a trust agreement whereby certain events are required to take place before the collection becomes the property of this other party, what they call a fiduciary duty of responsibility. Those events are now starting to materialize. ( collection spans the years of 1885 to 1999, all U.S. coins)

I am currently making up a collection of Buffalo nickels. Each piece must be from a different state or territory. I also have the three complete ASE sets (uncirculated and proof, including the 95W’s), which I am keeping up to date. Doing a lot of reading and fishing as the mood strikes me.

Now you know the whole story.......it’s been fun (most of the time).

 

What markings do they have that indicate where they come from?

 

well started about 18 months ago only, since then spent about 800 usd on books and yes ive read every single one cover to cover about 5 times each.kinda first drifted into it as a way to put away some money for a rainy day by buying a few bars of silver.As i have been poor most of my life what with brought up with 4 brothers/then some crappy jobs,a couple of failed relationships where i walked in and out of with nothing and 4 years as a poor student, then starting a buisness from absoulutely nothing.To finaly start making a little bit more than food money it just felt great to have something like a bar of silverto put away for a rainy day.From here started reading a bit more about gold and silver and from there drifted into collectable coins.

Now im totaly hooked i still collect the tubes of eagles and some gold coins ect each month as a way to put a bit of money away(its sure easier to pick up and run with than a house and no government or lawyer need know you have it).But ive gotten more and more also into coins and am quite frankly an addict.

British coins being from britain im collecting, modern milled sixpences and shillings but anything realy.Always up to trade and do a deal, also have a few morgan dollars and some standing liberty halfs.As well as lots of 90% silver i keep hunting through hoping to find a error or nice find in.


good to be around such company here, can only help us newer collectors progress and learn

 

Highlander, We keep hearing how popular the Eagles are world wide so I am curious as to how hard they were to get over there. Also what attracts you to that particular bullion coin? Kind of odd, the folks in Europe collecting U.S. and so many of us over here now collecting Europe and the Euro! Have made a bunch of new friends in Europe since 2002 and really couldn't have done it with out this darn computer! Swore I would never have one and now couldn't live with out it!!!

 

well there not that easy to get tubes of them,also silver is subject to 17.5% sales tax and import duties if you bring in, so its not such a great idea to import if you want value.

but theres no real shortage just gotta wait it out to grab decent priced ones.saying that they also because of this carry a better premium so unless they dropped the duty on them you should retain that premium when you sell.

i want still a 86 tube gonna have to put a bit away for a couple months for that one, the 86 eagles are realy starting to carry a nice premium

 

Well, the coins aren't actually marked, but my records will indicate such things as; where it was purchased (location) and who owned it at the time, the total cost (finders fee, mark-ups and having it authenticated). All a mater of record keeping. I will finally mark the album in which they will be shown as to which state they came from. A gathering of the herd, so to speak. Hope this helps.