A Contest for New Collectors!

i did not mean to post it it was an mistake.sorry

 

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I started collecting coins last year sometime. I was simply bored and decided that I'd try to get all the state quarters from my pocket change. This led to me finding wheaties and eventually learning about silver US coins. I started speaking with family about my new found hobby and wouldn't you know it several of my elder relatives that have passed away also collected coins. I ended up inheriting a small bag of coins that had been my grandmothers. It contained my first silver 25c,10c Merc, 10c rosie and several other us coins. Over the year I've been reaserching coins and finding them wherever and whenever I can. My favorite coin in my collection at this point is one that was givin to me by my step father. This is kind of a crazy story here. He works at a scrap yard and one day while he was sorting through "brass" he found 2 of these what I believe to be 1lb silver morgan replica. Thanks for the contest! and Here's a pic of my favorite coin I placed the 25c peice to show the size of this beast :

 

If been collecting off and on for about 10 months. Can I enter?

What got me into collecting was the Statehood Quarter program. I didn't start collecting them until April of last year. I saw my Dad's board with all the quarters and thought it shouldn't be to hard to collect them all so I started. I bought my own map and started filling it out one by one with the change I had. I only recently completed the collection with the American Samoa quarter a few weeks ago. Since then I have started collecting so much more. I now have small collections of Silver Eagles, V Nickels, Presidential Dollars, ATB quarters, Indian heads, buffalo nickels, Kennedy halves, and a bunch of other random stuff. My main focus is the ATB quarters, V Nickels, Presidential dollars, and Silver Eagles.

The Silver Eagles and Walking Liberty halves are my favorites. I received a Walking Liberty half from a very generous member here on CT. A few months later I learned about bullion and saw a Silver Eagle. With the obverse the same as the WLH I instantly wanted to start collecting them.

I walked into my local pawn shop and saw they had some coins. When I looked I saw they had a 1987 Silver Eagle Proof. It was the most marvelous coin I had ever seen and I knew I had to have it. It was $80 but with my new job I had the money. I took it home and couldn't put it down. I wanted to learn more and more about it. I learned what a proof is, the silver content of the coin, and that it was an investment. I didn't care about the investment part, I just loved the design. I only have 4 Silver Eagles but plan on saving up for a roll of them.

All in all I collect coins because I see it as a great way to collect art, own history, and they are great educational tools at the same time. Because of this I tend to keep the change I get and never spend it. When my local Borders was closing, I went and bought one of every type of Whitman folder they had. Im now in the process of filling them all up.

The picture below is of my Silver Eagle Proof.

 

Being only 17 (turn 18 in April!!!!!), I never game any thought to coin collecting. Out of boredom, I decited to take a look at some Euros, and Dinar (Don't know if that is spelled right) that my father brought home from Afghanistan. After I looked them up, I began to wonder what else could be there, and thus my addiction was born!

 

I am 41 years old now and new to collecting, although there has been a collection of sorts in the family for two previous decades. My mother is from the eastern hills of Kentucky and the youngest of 11 children. In 1973 my grandfather passed away, when I was three years old, and at his wake in the old homestead all my aunts and uncles were gathered. For some reason, I cant recall and my mother or father has no idea why, I began to go around the room selling kisses. I would kiss one of my aunts or uncles and they would give me a piece of change. As the night went on, I collected a small bag of odd coins. My dad had the coins he had collected and his father had collected, so he took copy paper and wrapped them all up and dated them with, "Old man's wake", written on the paper (I still have those pieces of paper too)...When I was 17 I asked to see them and he let me go through them. Nothing special was in them, a few 64 quarters that I remember, but most were early 70s coins except this old Buffalo. I dont know which uncle or aunt gave me it and since then they have forgotten what they gave me. I put all the coins back in the collection of my fathers (that he has now passed down to me to organize) except this old Buffalo. It stays on my dresser or my work table where I clean my firearms after hunting (another pass time my dad & uncles taught me about). This old Buffalo is not worth much to most, but to me when I hold it I can catch glimpses of that night and the fire, my aunts and uncles faces and the hints of laughter as I walked around the room collecting coins....not realizing that a little boy selling kisses made a night a little more bearable for some.....This is why I love Buffaloes I guess and I had the earlier questions about those Buffaloes.

 

Hmm no winner posted yet. A very beautiful prize there! I have a nice home for it in an album if i happen to get it. Good luck everyone i'm sure all of us new collectors would love that quarter!BTW Happy belated birthday CMan!!

 

Well, if i should not fit in your album, i have a place for it to
would be the first standing i have, but i can not be that lucky i guess to win another contest

and also belated happy b-da from me

 

Ohhh it'll fit in the album ... would be my first standing also

 

Hope your B-day was great, cman!

 

Happy Belated Birthday Cman!

 

Thanks for all the Bday wishes folks. I had a very unexpected phonecall and i moved to georgia last night. i will get a winner up as soon as i can. just hang in there with me folks.

Thanks, Charles

 

No problem man. Hope everything is alright.

 

Any news yet?

 

I'm 15 and just got back into coin collecting after going through my closet and finding my books of state quarters i did when i was around 10 years old and some buffalo nickels my mom put in there.After finding this forum I decided to try CRH,just $10 in nickels and found a 1944-p war nickel.That sparked enough interest for me to go out and get $120 in rolls of nickels and dimes and i found a 1944 mercury dime,next day i got another batch of rolls and found a 1944-d war nickel and a 1916 mercury dime.Pics of my finds from the past 3 days

 

Last post, 3/14. The dear fellow is indeed lost in action. Hope all is well.......

Emh? Ya need to start your own dedicated thread on this. Welcome to the forum.

 

Has anybody heard from Cman? He hasn't been on since his last post here. I hope nothing bad happened.

 

Last I heard, he was tyin' the knot. Might account for his absence......

Somehow, we're really not the same after such an event. We become domesticated. Horrible but true........

 

I am guessing that he and his girlfriend broke up.....when i was 19 i was in my third year of a relationship that i was just sure would end in marriage due to me being immature and when she broke up with me i pretty much gave up caring about anything for a few months....i hope this didn't happen nor anything else bad but he is young and it is a possibility......at least that would mean it was something that he would recover from......