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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kanderus, post: 1383439, member: 28447&quot;]I&#039;m 25 and have been &#039;seriously&#039; collecting coins for maybe a year and a half. As a kid I saved the &quot;shiney&quot; coins, but then as I got a bit older video games, cars, and girls over shadowed coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>About a year and a half ago I was talking with my boss, who is a numismatist. He really got me looking at coins. He found a silver quarter in the till one day and then I just knew I had to start looking. Initially I was a silver bug. Just looking for the metals...but then the coin collector in me started to grow. </p><p><br /></p><p>It really took off when my grandmother came up to visit me. I had been telling her about my collecting of coins and how much I was learning. She was up from San Diego with my great grandmother for the ANA show in Sacramento. She drove the 2 hours to Chico to come see me, and she was bearing gifts! My great grandmother and given my grammy to give to me a whole bunch of coins! One of each denomination! There was an 1890 Morgan, an 1963 Franklin, a BU 1954-S WQD, a 1959 Roosie BU, a 1974S Lincoln proof, and an 1863 IHC. She also gave me my first Red Book. Series 2011. I was officially hooked, and there was no getting around it.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite coin belongs to my favorite coin series. The Washington Quarter Dollar. I will be the first to admit that the WQD is not the most beautiful coin we have ever produced, or the most interesting...but it is my own personal history that really makes the coin my favorite. See, when I was kid growing up in the mid to late 90s the quarter was the coin of choice. That was the coin you hunted you couch, car floor, bedroom, ground, everywhere to find. Why? Because back then there were still arcades, there were still 25c candy bars, and the quarter vending machines had cool toys back then. Also, for about 55 cents you could snag yourself a Pepsi! Now that I mean a collector I look at the WQD in a totally different light...but this is STILL the coin from my childhood. I could have never guessed as a kid that the WQD used to be silver, or that they have been made since 1932 only (I never really knew of any other quarters besides that until about 2 years ago.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now then, my favorite coin in my entire collection is one I just got earlier this week. A 1932-D WQD. It only has a mintage of 436,800 pieces. It is the king of the WQD series, which is my favorite series. It is also the king of my collection!&nbsp; Also, something that just BLOWS my mind is this: I think there is something like 260 million people in the United States...that means that if I did my math correctly, only one in every 595 people get to own one of these coins. THAT is crazy. That is FAR less than 1% of Americans. That is like .0016% or something!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for listening, or reading rather, my story!</p><p><br /></p><p>--Rob&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]164417.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]164418.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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