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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1372928, member: 5233&quot;]I first remember becoming slightly interested in coins when I was in early elementary school...probably second or third grade.&nbsp; My best friend at the time was a classmate of mine named Noah...and Noah had a small coin collection.&nbsp; I recall one day, he was telling me about Indian Head Cents and I had never seen one, so he brought one of his to school and showed me.&nbsp; I thought it was really neat.&nbsp; That year, he gave me a 1900 Indian Head Cent in a 2x2 for Christmas.&nbsp; It was very low grade and corroded...but I didn&#039;t care.&nbsp; I actually still have the coin in my collection, in the same 2x2 with his handwriting labeling it.&nbsp; Sadly, Noah switched schools during our fifth grade school year and once he left my interest in coins faded and became forgotten.</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple years later...now in middle school, I was going through my dad&#039;s gun safe with him (trying to organize all the papers of other things he kept in there)...when I found a stick of old Whitman coin folders.&nbsp; I quickly discovered my dad had a small coin collection in his youth.&nbsp; He let me look through the coins and I was amazed at what I saw.&nbsp; Mostly old wheat cents and a few other pieces.&nbsp; Nothing that would amaze me today...but at the time it sparked a lost interest.&nbsp; What really jumped out at me were the 1943 cents...as I had never seen a steel cent before and his 1886 Morgan Dollar from his grandmother.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This time I was hooked for good.&nbsp; I found a coin shop in town and went and looked around.&nbsp; On my first trip, I came home with a set of new Whitman Lincoln Cent folders of my own (at the time, there were 3 in the set)...and handful of wheat cents from the dealers &quot;junk&quot; bin, a 1943 cent, and a beautiful BU 1881-S Morgan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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