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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Augustine1992, post: 1385868, member: 30585&quot;]If been collecting off and on for about 10 months. Can I enter?</p><p><br /></p><p>What got me into collecting was the Statehood Quarter program. I didn&#039;t start collecting them until April of last year. I saw my Dad&#039;s board with all the quarters and thought it shouldn&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;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&#039;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. </p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>The picture below is of my Silver Eagle Proof.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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