Collecting from influence of relatives

Thank you for the response. I started out collecting mostly the same series as my father, but have since accumulated a much larger collection. I think showing him much of what I have aquired will help. I just hope the prices of today's coins do not scare him away. He has showed interest in completing the Buffalo nickels and Indian cents, which are still reasonable by my standards. I will mention the next show in our area and see if he shows interest. It always works for me.

 

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My Dad got me started when I was a kid (almost 50 now). I stopped for several years in my teens, 20s and 30s. I always stayed interested but with school, family (wife and kids)and work I didn't have much time or money. I finally got a decent job that paid me enough so I could get my coin collection in order (still a ways to go, especially since I was laid off over a year ago).
My Dad also gave my youngest son some Whitman books a couple of years ago for Christmas and that got him interested. He doesn't do much but will come help me when I am doing something with my coins.

 

My grandfather, dad, uncle, grandma, and old neighbor. My grandpa bought quite a few things for me when I was younger including some uncut sheets of 2's and 1's, a state quarter collection framed board that mounts on the wall. And he gave me some foreign coins from his 7 round the world trips. My dad has a small collection and gave me some silver and wheats and stuff of that nature. One of my favorite memories was sitting at the kitchen table with multiple jars of change, and going through them with him. That was so fun, we haven't done it for a long while though because things have just been so hectic lately. My uncle Gary collects big time and we talk about coins every once in a while, I don't see him much though, he lives in the mountains. My grandma greatly influenced my love for coins. She owns an Arabic deli and cooks the best Arabic/Greek food ever. And when ever she finds some thing old or interesting in the cash register she gives it to me. She is the sweetest grandma. My old neighbor was a collector of foreign coins and used to always give some to me when he would come back from trips. Many people played a part in my love for coins.

 

my grandparents and my dad and the rest of my family definatly helped get me started. but I think was mostly self influncce for me

 

my father, grandfather, and my great-grandfather all collected coins, but I didn`t start collecting until i found a 1922 p peace dollar at the bank

 

My grand dad got me started. I'd sit by him at the table and go through change and find wheat cents and place them in a folder. He'd look at them with me and than show me his collection of large cents. It always blew my mind that pennies were so big way back in the older days. Now I wish I had enough resourchs to put a set of large cents together for grand dad. I also wish they made coins today like they did in the days of the large cent and in the day when my grand dad was a young pup.

 

your story could be mine in reverse. I'm the granddad who got my grandson started.although he lives in MD & i'm in NJ we've become much closer since his interest in coins

 

My grandfathers and uncle got me started, my Dad paid for them...Kiss

 

When I cracked open the piggy bank I'd had since I was a wee lad, my much-older brother had already become a coin collector. He swapped all of my 90% silver for currency and base-metal face value equivalents. That was the first time I got ripped off ... now it happens all the time, on e-Bay, at shows, etc.