Are you a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. Generation Coin Collector

My uncle was a collector and my father worked in a bank . Both got me started at the young age of 7. But I'm the first and last generation of collectors in my family .

 

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1st here.

 

2nd generation here. My father was a collector and got me interested in it.

Bruce

 

1st.

 

3rd generation.

Gramps was more into postage stamps, but I inherited a bunch of empty Whitman folders I assume were at least partially filled before getting into my hands.

Dad had a big tackle box filled with coins. Many were 90% Kennedys he had saved as a child with the dream of one day visiting the pyramids in Egypt. My brother swiped them all to buy McDonalds for his friends.

I spent the entire summer going door to door mowing lawns, raking, etc. Each week I would go around to the banks asking for halves and explaining why. An awkward moment when dad discovered my stash of halves before I could present them to him, leading him to think I had stolen them from him. Brother took those too, a few years later. My mother took everything else when she left.

So, though I'm 3rd Gen, neither predecessor had any specialized knowledge or anything of substance to be built upon, so that makes me the first serious collector in the fam...... That I know of anyway...

 

My great grandmother, passed in 1995, owned an antique store in Springfield IL. She hoarded silver out of change, according to my father, way before 1965. I don't know if she specifically collected coins. My grandmother HOARDED coins, she passed last year, and relatives I don't know cashed in a lot of stuff at FV. She had glass milk jugs (the BIG ones) filled to the brim with coins. I remember as a kid, while on summer vacations to her home in FL, she'd always show me these "weird" coins, like Kennedy Halves and Eisenhower Dollars. She also always put a silver dollar in a holiday dish as a tradition. Can't remember which one or why. I also heard that my uncle, who passed 2 years ago, had a fairly sizable Indian Head cent collection. I miss them all and never ever got to share with them my interest in coins. I did however get two of my most cherished coins from my Grandmother a few years ago in the mail. Two circulated Ikes, a 1971 and a 1976. So I guess I'm a 4th generation collector, kinda. Directly related to me, I started collecting on my own accord, so that'd be 1st generation. I guess split the difference and I'm a 2.5 generation collector!!

 

2nd generation. My dad got me started. My youngest son showed a little interest in collecting but that seems to have dissipated. We'll see if it comes back somewhere down the road.

 

Me to and in exact situation on what family thinks lol

 

First generation, although my father was a serious stamp collector. I have to credit him with setting the values and discipline for this hobby.

 

First generation.

 

Adopt me as your son. I'll carry on the tradition.........

 

I would Ken but ..... I have to put a lock on my liquor cabinet ,And my Cigars.
Not sure if you're potty trained.

 

Oh, I'm potty trained. (piss up against the wall) Can he say that? Let me at those cigars Daddy.......

Jim's gonna get me......

 

No I'll get in trouble as he'll be pm ING me asking why I can't control my kid!

 

I have five grown children and not one interested, grandkids so far have no interest. Makes you wonder what to do with a massive collection? I can see the pawn shops having a hayday!

 

4th as far as relatives that have collected within my lifetime. But there are records from family dating from the 1700's collecting. Wish I had whatever they had collected, but alas it didn't survive to my lifetime.

 

I'm a second generation collector. My former step-dad collected (who got me started), I had two uncles who collected and collects, one who only kelp coins that he found on vacation or in change (probably not really a collector?) who passed away a couple of years ago and another who buys coins every now and then and keeps what he finds in change. He does have a few foreign coins, he buys a Redbook about every 5 years, he also has a half finished wheat set and he stays current with the state and park quarters. So I'd say he counts as a collector. Before that I have no ideal. I knew my grandparents but they never said much about coins. One of my nieces has showed interest in coins but that has yet to take off. My sister she kind of plays around with collecting the president dollars.