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Sorry, just woke up. 57. Collected as a kid (~8-14), discovered girls then birding, back to collecting at 52.

 

Good call!

 

I need to find a new hobby quick. It looks like most coin collectors keel over when they reach 70. I am assuming that the one 80+ didn't start collecting until after s/he reached 71 and, thus, was safely past the mortality window.

 

That's why the government keeps telling people to wait till they are 70 to collect social security. It keeps the money in the treasury longer plus the possibility of a pay out is much less to begin with.

 

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Man, talk about your bi-modal distribution. It would be interesting to poll people between 30 and 50 to find out why they stopped collecting (I'm assuming young collectors drop out and then re-surface 20 years later). The problem with that idea is there are probably few former collectors on the list. So, if you had a coin hiatus, what were the reasons?

 

I'm only 27.. but I collected as a young teen.. stopped throughout high school and college.. now that I have kids and work, I started collecting again and getting into some old hobbies

 

53 ~ Started collecting mercury dimes and franklin halves at 10 years old thanks to my grandma.

 

Eric Newman, one of the authors of The Fantastic 1804 Dollar, is 100.

Correction 103, born May 25, 1911

 

66....My dad was a huge stamp plate block collector when I was a kid. Got me into stamps. Then later in life I got into ASEs, which I sold around 2007 or so...then got back into it in 2010 when I started going to estate auctions and buying coins, selling them on eBay, sending in ones I liked to be graded, etc, etc. Have built a nice Morgan and Peace collection and a few other things and now selling bullion and still looking to upgrade my Morgans and Peace.....and hitting another auction this weekend.

 

Piss off smarty pants! (Although that was funny!)

 

44, started learning about coins when I was 5 or 6.....

 

38 been collecting over 30 years took some breaks along the way when I was starting my business and buying my house but I always had some coins. Got real serious again when I finally got online and could find the coins I wanted but never saw local

 

I started at 40. However, I know from other research that the number 1 and 2 reasons are Girls and Cars. Then the one leads to the other and with a family and a career and such, coins take a back seat, actually, the back seat previously occupied... which now has a baby in it... Anyway... once life is under control, about middle age or so, then, coins are an option again.

 

I had a hiatus when I was 13 when my parents took my collection away as punishment for something that I can't remember. Then I took a hiatus in high school because I was in school all day and work all evening/weekends. Though I always picked up coins off the ground, looked at my change from the store, and kept any foreign coin I find, I officially picked this back up after a significant life event. I'm 27 and hoping to avoid any more breaks.

 

Never married no kids. Still love cars and girls tho!! And coins. I have a lot of other interests too tho

 

It's good to see that there's a nice age mixture.. especially with a bunch of collectors under 40

 

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